{"id":580,"date":"2007-12-21T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-01-13T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:42:13","slug":"christmas-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Christmas concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick and choose what you&#8217;d like to watch. This is sort of eclectic. It&#8217;s hard to find good stuff on Youtube sometimes. I spent about half an hour trying to find a good clip of Eartha Kitt singing &#8220;Santa Baby&#8221;, which I think is a real howler. No luck, and Madonna&#8217;s version sucks by comparison. <\/p>\n<p>First, from the White House, back in 1999, Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y0UCi2HcrT4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>My fellow aging hippies will no doubt remember the Perry Como show, a big hit in the &#8217;50s. Here&#8217;s Perry with the Ray Charles singers:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9E5WqegfuyE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>One of the oddest pairings in history, Bing Crosby and David Bowie:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gKTHvW2JcAA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this is a political blog, so I can&#8217;t leave out John Lennon. BE WARNED, this is not light viewing.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BAvAA53sLo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick and choose what you&#8217;d like to watch. This is sort of eclectic. It&#8217;s hard to find good stuff on Youtube sometimes. I spent about half an hour trying to find a good clip of Eartha Kitt singing &#8220;Santa Baby&#8221;, which I think is a real howler. No luck, and Madonna&#8217;s version sucks by comparison. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}