Year-round Yuletide oddities
Celebrity birthdays on Christmas Day have some weird following somewhere somehow. So, let’s swing Keys-ward to Margarita-ville.
“Happy Birthday Jesus and Jimmy Buffett” is more fun than it oughter be. Rick Carter lays the blues to rock while rhyming ‘stomach’ and ‘Jimmy Buffett.’ Audacious.
Wavy Noah and Uspa G try to impress Mr. McCarthy with their “Newtonmas” carol, which is solid rap with ‘Rudolph’ for a (near) backbeat. Personable and enlightening, for street nerds.
A ’12 Days’ routine from Jessica Picanzo and Sarah Butler allows for all the advanced info. “12 Days of Newtonmas” is chill, for girl physicists.
A.cute.Ang.le (is the name actually Ang Le?) delivers a fairly talented parody of ‘White’ with “White Newton(mas).” Academics can be fun(damental).
Continuing to keep extra credit alive, AP kids like Marly Dure do their singing best with “Newtonmas” carols. Mostly they crack themselves up.
The kids of 117B have an earnest ‘God Rest Ye’ parody for “Newtonmas Caroling.” Clever by c.
Celebrating the opposite of faith, some kids observe the birth of Sir Isaac Newton on twelve/twenty-five. I say kids ‘cuz so many students make music videos for extra credit in their physics class.
For example Francesca DiMare and Mary Pyrdol jumping a lot to ‘JBells’ and singing out “Newtonmas.” There oughta be a law, or three.
An original (short) amateur bit celebrates “Newtonmas SOTU 305.” Pabrizzer is an Australian ukulele maestro and senior member of Ukulele Underground who conjures short sweet oddities (i suppose SOTU is Song of the Universe, not State of the Union).
The Happy Birthday songs channel on Youtube seems to make an entry once a year, including the “Christmas Birthday Song” from the inception of the channel a couple years back. This pop insta-party seems longer than at it is at half a minute.
Lynsay Ryan married a guy born 12/25. So she’s in earnest with her lite-country “Christmas Baby” song. She’s home with some range. With her sweetie.
Parodies pale on the topic of simultaneity of yule and yer own beeday.
The Radio Ate My TV has “We Wish You a Merry Christmas Happy Birthday Mashup” with The Muppets, Jackie Vernon’s Frosty the Snowman, John Denver, and more all stitched together to chilling effect.
And here’s a near miss, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas And A Happy Birthday (For Kelly And Paul)” by Kendra Masonchuck. Yeah it’s for twins, tweaking ‘Wish You’ only slightly. It’s Steamroller symphonic big, though, so that’s fun.
Back to kidsong complaint. Missoula funnyman Ednor Therriault goes by the frontman band name Bob Wire. In 2011 he collabbed with Chip Whitson to compile a pretty cool comedy song album Off White Christmas, with goodies like “My Birthday’s on Christmas.” Valid points are made about lazy relatives. C’mon, Mom!
‘It’s better than never being born at all,’ admits Ovis, retro-pop Australians in “It Sucks to be Born Around Christmas.” Their peppiness is infectious, more so than their web-found roster of celebrities with this problem. John Legend and Zappa and Bogart and MTM and on and on just becomes one more list.
‘It’s much worse than dying alone,’ bewail Fortress of Attitude in “It Sucks to be Born on Christmas.” This ponderous elegiac is both blues and slo-mo pop ballad, but really reads (for me) as showtune. Enjoy.