Roll On: George

Yeah, yeah, yeah Kings of England and all that kind of stuff. But GEORGE is Greek for farmer. Till on that.

“Happy Christmas, George” by Maxwell’s Complex hints around about celebrity. But i like it as downbeat pop about just any old George.

The Brown Christmas has a trilogy of “My Name is George” beginning with an interruption of Nat, then another version played during a hearing test, finally outtakes (?).

While The Pig Family sings “Bing Bong Christmas” Peppa is nice to little brother George. (While fuming about the lack of snow.) Chanting kidsong. Awww. (She gets him back with “Christmas Muddy Puddles“. Snowballs are thrown.)

More ‘Wonderful Life’ recognition: “George Bailey, Astronaut” guides The Winter Sounds into making winter real with Viktor. Oddball indie.

AI tweaks jazz band for Christmas Jams’ “Wonderful; a George Bailey Christmas“. Summarily complete.

Actual people The Rayne & Patron Andrea (feat. Zac Ware, Joe Armstrong & Corinne Schmidiger) retell “It’s a Wonderful Life (A Christmas Tale?)” even further with easy listening dull-icity.

Kiddiekingdom continues the AI through folk country with “A Tribute to George Baileypart2“. This time it’s personal reflection.

Carolyn Sills gets adoring with retro pop “George Bailey“. Easy, girl. He ain’t real.

Amb. Parsley also loves “George Bailey“, but her jazzy blues is more restrained.

Stone’s Prairie Riot thrashes the ukulele for their “George Bailey“. Peppy–albeit judgmental–folk.

From France, A.Mi.S conjures a “George Bailey” who’s more existentially troubled. Harp folk.

RJ Brunoff leans into BLUE ALERT to identify with “George Bailey“. Unplugged folk rock. But life ain’t wonderful here.

A nice break, it think, is Grimm Winter’s “Like George Bailey“. Indie prog. There are dozens more. Oh well.

“Another Geordie Christmas” is Phil Murray laughing at not with via snarky pop with a heavy backbeat. Okay. Fine. Bye.

Prophet PM reenacts the sad tale of “Little Georgie & the Christmas Jug“. Poor little orphan’s ostracized until an old drunk teaches him to blow. Blues, fool.

Egg Storm plays fast and loose with history in “Christmas is About America“. Their spoken word poetry gives a bit too much credit to Geo. Washington in the establishment of our holiday observance.

George starts some family grief when Arrogant Worms sing “The Christmas Song“. It escalates and goes down from there. Power polka.

Bag of Cans identifies as a George for the apologetic blues indie “Sorry Mum That I Was Hungover This Christmas“. That’s so George.

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