Yes, but it's not The Holly and the Ivy. > On 18 Dec 2016, at 21:16, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Strange Fruit -- what a moving powerful song. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas >> have really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange >> Fruit? >> >> B >> >>> On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but >>> I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well >>> established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it >>> being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group >>> called Pentatonix is a case in point. >>> >>> Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... >>>> >>>> What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM >> station, you >>>> know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a >> national >>>> chain, etc., etc., but... Right now it's playing all Christmas >> music, all >>>> the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then >> to >>>> get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play >>>> Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... >>>> >>>> After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of >>>> Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." >>>> >>>> I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the >>>> compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the >> kibosh >>>> on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get >> the >>>> joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas >>>> mix. >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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