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Mike Ferguson in the Morning 12-18-24 (8:05am) MORNING NEWS DUMP Are the drones a big deal or not? John Kirby says no, but Josh Hawley is very skeptical. Story here: https://nypost.com/2024/12/16/us-news/drones-over-new-jersey-are-all-lawful-aircraft-or-stars-white-house-says/ St. Louis County Council passed their 2025 budget last night, and the senior property tax freeze program moves ahead too. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen have been highlighted for their strong pro-life stance and efforts to protect life in their states. Story here: https://catholicvote.org/desantis-to-receive-pro-life-recognition-award-in-washington-in-january/ Madison, WI Police Chief Shon Barnes comments on the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School. Story here: https://www.wkow.com/news/madison-police-investigate-possible-manifesto-motive-of-suspected-shooter-at-abundant-life-christian-school/article_c413427a-bc95-11ef-b45a-cbe9841c8064.html Luigi Mangione will waive extradition and expects to be returned to New York as soon as Thursday. Story here: https://abc7ny.com/post/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-protesters-support-luigi-mangione-after-1st-degree-murder-terrorism-charge/15671223/ We discuss an Emerson Polling Survey showing that 41% of American voters under the age of 30 approve of the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. That's hard to fathom. And one-in-five Democrats overall and one-in-ten Republicans overall surveyed said they found the killing "acceptable." Unreal. They polled 1,000 registered voters. Story here: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5044269-poll-finds-41-percent-find-killing-unacceptable/ Two bills in the Missouri Senate propose to establish a Donald Trump Highway in the state, one in St. Charles County and the other in South County. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/bill-filed-to-rename-st-charles-county-roadway-after-president-elect-donald-trump/ The US Postal Service says today is the last day to mail your holiday packages if you want them delivered by Christmas. Blues lost to the NJ Devils 4-1 at Enterprise Center. Up next: they'll face the Lightning in Tampa Bay on Thursday night. (8:20am) We discuss an Emerson Polling Survey showing that 41% of American voters under the age of 30 approve of the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. That's hard to fathom. And one-in-five Democrats overall and one-in-ten Republicans overall surveyed said they found the killing "acceptable." Unreal. They polled 1,000 registered voters. Story here: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5044269-poll-finds-41-percent-find-killing-unacceptable/ (8:35am) Bob Hoge from RedState.com talks about allegations that Liz Cheney should be investigated for potential criminal witness tampering with a J6 witness, Cassidy Hutchinson. Read Bob's column here: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/12/17/now-its-the-investigator-being-investigated-house-gop-alleges-liz-cheney-tampered-with-j6-witness-n2183312 Also story here: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/12/18/liz-cheney-response-to-interim-report-n2183363 More columns from Bob here: https://redstate.com/author/bobhoge (8:50am) We discuss Trans-Siberian Orchestra, their first hit song Christmas Eve/Sarajevo, and the band's predecessor Savatage before they became known as TSO. They're in St. Louis tonight (Wed/Dec. 18) at Enterprise Center at 7pm! NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textOn this Episode, Tom and Bert are all about their favorite Christmas Songs to listen to so please enjoy this Special Edition and have a Wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!(1:14) "Snoopy's Merry Christmas" by The Royal Guardsmen(4:13) "Frosty the Snowman" by Jimmy Durante(6:47) "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Frank Sinatra(10:16) "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole(13:26) "Baby it's Cold Outside" by Dean Martin(15:46) "Do they know it's Christmas" by Band Aid(19:27) "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band(23:53) "Christmas Eve Sarajevo" by The Trans Siberian Orchestra(27:16) "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" by Bing Crosby and David Bowie(29:53) "I'm dressing up like Santa Claus" (when I'm out on parole) by Bob Rivers(33:00) "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses (38:21) "Hanukah Song" by Adam Sandler(42:10) "Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg(47:26) "Golden Slippers" by The Ferko String BandEnjoy the Show!You can email us at reeldealzmoviesandmusic@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page, Reel Dealz Podcast: Movies & Music Thru The Decades to leave comments and/or TEXT us at 843-855-1704 as well.

Welcome to Jammin Adventures with me, Rhino, and my mate Cal where we talk about music from the past and present. We introduce  songs to each other to break down different types of music and of course we offer up our opinions on anything and everything that we like.This week, Calvin picks a Christmas tune!!!

Welcome to PTBN Pop's Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week, we are celebrating Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today's episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Christmas Eve / Saravejo 12/24” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra from 1996.   The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A

Amal and the night visitorsBach Christmas Oratorio - Jauchzet frohlocketBach Christmas Oratorio - Ich Will Nur Dir zu Ehren LebenBach Christmas Oratorio - Ich Will Nur Dir zu Ehren Leben BelaMannheim Steamroller - A Fresh Aire ChristmasMannheim Steamroller—the multi-Platinum-selling neo-classical group founded by Chip Davis—is best known for popular reworkings of classic Christmas songs.∙ Born into a musical Ohio family, Davis composed his first piece at age six, played in the University of Michigan's concert band, and became a junior high music teacher.∙ He cocreated the character of C.W. McCall, whose 1975 trucker-rebellion single “Convoy” topped Billboard's Country and Pop charts and inspired Sam Peckinpah's like-named 1978 film.∙ Mannheim Steamroller's debut album, 1975's Fresh Aire—featuring classical music played on electric bass and synthesizers—was a hit with audiophiles due to its high-tech sound.∙ The band's first collection of holiday classics, 1984's Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, rose into the Billboard 200—and by 2004 the album had sold more than six million copies.∙ The Mannheim Steamroller LP Fresh Aire 7 won a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1991.∙ In 2019, the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Tour celebrated 35 straight years, with two different touring troupes, plus a third group that performed at a popular Florida theme park.Manheim SteamRoller - Holly and the IvyManheim SteamRoller - Carol of the BellsManheim Steamroller - GreensleevesManheim Steamroller Christmas - Deck the HallsTrans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other StoriesSymphonic rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra has blended heavy metal bombast, classical music composition, and pyro-and-lasers theatrics into their Platinum-selling LPs and explosive live shows.∙ Thanks to the radio success of seasonal smash “Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24,” the band's debut LP, 1996's Christmas Eve and Other Stories, has been certified triple-Platinum.∙ Their double-Platinum sophomore album, 1998's The Christmas Attic, hit the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Holiday and Top Pop Catalog Albums charts.∙ Throughout the 2000s, the band performed for over 5 million fans at more than 700 concerts, landing them within the Top 25 on Billboard's Top Touring Artists of the Decade list in 2009.∙ With 2009's Night Castle and 2015's Letters from the Labyrinth, they scored back-to-back No. 1 hits on Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums chart.∙ “Forget About the Blame (Moon Version)”—featuring guest lead vocals from Halestorm's Lzzy Hale—became a Top 40 rock radio hit in 2015.Christmas/Sarajevo 12/24O Come All Ye Faithful/Oh Holy NightSt. Olaf - Glories Ring - JC - 3Spitfire BBC Symphony orchestra recording John Ferguson's O Come All Ye FaithfulPart 1https://youtu.be/39poO0zkMCA Part 2BBC Symphony Orchestra Free John Ferguson O Come All Ye Faithful Part 2Ammundson joy to the worldMidnight Syndicate - Christmas: A Ghostly GatheringInspired by gothic rock and other obscure sounds, Midnight Syndicate creates darkly blended compositions that also display their pop/rock style influences. The band sustains its dramatic musical scenarios not only by way of their common musical inspirations, ranging from Black Sabbath to King Diamond, but also by a shared wish of portraying the darkest edges of existence. It was...

Today's episode is a holiday Christmas special featuring Frosty the Snow Man, Rudolph, and much more! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Thank you all for the continued support! Music Credits For This Episode: Intro Christmas Eve/Sarajevo by The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Frosty The Snow Man by Michael Bublé ft The Puppini Sisters, Christmas Eve/Sarajevo by The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry, Christmas Time Is Here by Vince Guaraldi Trio. The Outro is Christmas Time Is Here. Sources: Genius.com, Musixmatch.com, USAToday.com “The 10 Best Christmas Songs of All Time” by Mary Clarke, Lyricfind.com, and YouTube.

its the 2021 Holiday special, and this year is full of some amazing segments to help you celebrate. We hope you enjoy your winter festivities and look forward to another year of making podcasts and watching indy films. our music for this episode is as follows: 1. Good King Wenceslas - mannheim Steam rollers 1984 album christmas 2. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 by the Trans Siberian Orchestra off their 1996 album christmas eve and other stories. 3. White Christmas of the 2014 album Juletide ragnarok 4. We wish you a merry christmas and O Tannenbaum by Tarja Turunen from her 2017 album from spirits and ghosts 5. Have yourself a merry little christmas sung by Judy Garland from the 1944 holiday classic meet me in St Louis. 6. A marshmallow world sung by Dean Martin from his 1966 album the Dean Martin Christmas album We hope you enjoy the holiday, and we will see you first thing next year.

Good day everyone! Today is Day 23 of our 25 Songs of Christmas and we are spotlighting Our Day 23 Artists Adrienne Rowe and The PWP Life Dance Company. who will be singing the TransSiberian Orchestra's 1996 Classic CHRISTMAS EVE/SARAJEVO 12/24( 1996) Christmas Eve and Other Stories are celebrating its 25th Anniversary. DISCLAIMER: I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this video/music/song. All rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. It has been uploaded for the simple reason that I have a deep appreciation of this work of art and used it for entertainment purposes only. The official music video for Trans-Siberian Orchestra - "Christmas Eve / Sarajevo" from 'Christmas Eve and Other Stories' (1996) Subscribe to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra channel http://bit.ly/SubscribetoTSO Watch all of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's official videos here: https://lnk.to/TSOVideos Listen to all of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's greatest hits here: https://lnk.to/TSOStreaming Stay In Touch with Trans-Siberian Orchestra…

Voted on by our Patreon, we look at the what, how, and for-gods-sake-why of some of those most hated holiday songs! 02:40 Banned songs 08:09 Wonderful Christmastime 10:45 Chipmunks Song 16:36 Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth) Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesliyan.   Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Links to all the research resources are on the website. In the early 80's, drought caused a famine that crippled the nation of Ethiopia.  It was a bad scene.  Half of the mortality rate is said to be attributable to “human rights violations.”  People around the world were moved, like Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof, who along with Midge Ure, wrote a fundraiser song.  Who could they get to sing it?  How about “everybody”?  The likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Boy George, Bono, and Sting joined forces as Band Aid to record the fast-selling single in UK history, asking us the question “Do They Know It's Christmas?”  My name's… Some songs rub us the wrong way because they're sung by shrieking children on now-oudated equipment was was not kind to female and higher-pitched voices, songs like I'm Getting Nuthin for Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth, standards which I think think would have died away if we weren't all made to sing them in elementary school.  Some are painfully goofy, like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, but you almost have to give them a pass since it seems they accomplished what they set out to do.  Some songs make us their enemy by borrowing into our brains and setting up shop for hours or days on end, the dreaded holiday earworm, like Jingle Bell Rock and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.  The mere mention of the title is enough to activate them like a sleeper cell of obnoxious holiday cheer.   Banned You might be able to forbid people in your own home from playing songs that irritate you –and I stress “might”-- but if you can find yourself with a bit of authority and a big enough humbug up your butt, you can try to make it so nobody has to hear the song either.  For instance, the 1952 classic “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” sung by 13-year-old Jimmy Boyd from Mississippi.  Did you realize the song was about the little boy not realizing that his Dad was dressed as Santa?  It had to be pointed out to me, and embarrassingly recently.  People were *scandalized by the musical marriage of sex and Christmas, with one churchgoer stating “mockery of decent family life as well as Christ's birthday.”  Many pearls were clutched.  They'd probably clutch them pearls twice as hard if I'd been there to tell them Jesus wasn't born on 12/25, but that's another show.  Boston's Catholic Archdiocese denounced it and the young Boyd had to meet with church leaders to explain that Mommy and Santa were properly, sanctily married.  A West Virginia broadcasting company prohibited its radio stations from playing this “insult to Santa Claus.”  The same thing happened to one of my husband's favorite songs, Lou Monte's “Dominick the Donkey,” but the people of WV went to bat for the little donkey who could take the Italian hills that were too much for the reindeer.  The public protested the ban so forcefully that it was repealed after less than two weeks; and this was in 1960, when 20% of homes in the US still didn't have a telephone.   For every time the hubs plays Dominick the Donkey, I play the Pogue's Fairytale of New York at least twice.  A lot of folks don't like, and I respect our difference of opinions, and think it's the farthest thing from a cheery Xmas song, and I agree with y'all there.  The 1987 duet with singer Kirsty MacColl, quickly became a UK holiday classic, famous then infamous in turn.  It tells the story of a toxic couple who seem to love each deep down, but should probably not be allowed within 200m of each other.  There's talk of drug use and insults, including a certain homophobic slur to rhyme with the word “maggot.”  In December 2019, BBC radio DJ Alex Dyke said he was cutting the song from his program.  The BBC had previously censored the song in 2007 with an unconvincing word-swap, but this brought more backlash than the original version had.  The BBC reversed course for a few years, then put the censored version back up.  What do you think?  soc med   Some songs we consider absolute standards, impeccable and indispensable, made people in their day as prickly as holl and less than jolly.  The BBC worried that “I'll Be Home for Christmas” could damage British morale during World War II, so no air-play for you!  In an amazingly blunt statement that would definitely trend on Twitter today:  “We have recently adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country.”   One of the most frequently cover and burlesqued-to songs, Santa Baby, wouldn't have become the classic it did if it had been sung by anyone other than the utterly incomparable Eartha Kitt.  Who doesn't love a Christmas song dripping in sexuality, sung by a loudly self-confident mixed race woman?  In 1953, a lot of people.   Radio stations refused to play it and political officials gnashed their teeth after Kitt performed Santa Baby at a dinner for the king and queen of Greece that November.  That was an unusual sentence and I'm stalling for time to let you process it.  However, Billboard magazine reported “Neither the King nor his Queen were one whit disturbed by the chantress's performance, nor by the song.”  Kitt was quoted as saying it was ‘inconceivable that anyone would question the ingenious poetry of the song.'”  I don't know about poetry, but I do know I don't want to hear any version other than hers.   Chipmunks My hatred for this next song cannot be overstated.  I almost hired an editor just for this section. It's shrill, it's pointless, and it's been playing for 63 freaking years.  It's the goddamn Chipmunks' song aka Christmas Don't Be Late.  I'm mad already.  Named after the president, chief engineer, and founder of Liberty Records, the furry little characters are the members of a “band”, called Alvin And The Chipmunks, while a “man” named David Seville functions as their human manager, catapulting them to super stardom.  The Chipmunks, three singing cartoon rodents in Victorian nightdresses apparently, or maybe ill-fitted sweater dresses, were the brainchild of a songwriter named Ross Bagdasarian, though he was better known by the pseudonym of David Seville, the name that would be immortalized as The Chipmunk's fictitious manager.  Bagdasarian was the son of Armenian immigrants to California, who served in the Army Air Force in WWII, which is how he came to find himself stationed in Seville, Spain.  He did a bit of acting, landing minor roles in Rear Window and Stalag 17.  Songwriting played out considerably better.  In 1951, he used the melody of an Armenian folk song to write Rosemary Clooney's hit, Come On-a My House. [sfx clip]    Bagdasarian-cum-Seville began toying around with voice distortion effects, speeding up and slowing down his voice to achieve the cute high pitched sound of the little animal's voices.  Consumer tape decks at the time had changeable speeds, but usually only in simple binary multiples, doubling or halving the speed, creating sounds an octave apart. Changing speeds of voices in these limited multiples creates extremely high or low pitches that sound too extreme for most purposes.  Disney used half-speed recording for his Chip ‘n Dale cartoon characters, making the extremely fast dialogue difficult to understand. As a result, dialog recorded at that speed had to consist of very short phrases.  Seville's chief innovation was to use tape machines that could vary speeds in between these extremes, creating more understandable and thus emotionally accessible voices that worked well for both singing and spoken dialogue.   The Chipmunk Song made its debut on Christmas 1958 and immediately became a smash hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart.  It would be the “band's” first and only #1 song, as well as Seville's second and final, No. 1 single.  The first was the song Witch Doctor, wanna hear it here it goes [sfx clip]  I guess when you have a hammer…    A write-up in Life magazine in 1959, noted that Bagdasarian/Seville was the first case in the "annals of popular music that one man has served as writer, composer, publisher, conductor and multiple vocalist of a hit record, thereby directing all possible revenues from the song back into his pocket."  That'd be impressive enough even if you didn't know that Seville couldn't read or write music, nor play any instruments, but now you do know that, so you should be quite impressed.   The Chipmunk Song earned them three Grammy Awards at the very first Grammy's the following May.  I'm going to say that again, because I don't think you heard me.  The Chipmunks song won three Grammy's.  In fairness, one is for best children's song.  A few years later, The Chipmunks landed their own television show as cartoon characters, but it did not command the same success their music career.  After Bagdasarian passed away unexpectedly in 1972, his son and daughter-in-law took over the voices of The Chipmunks, but it would take nearly ten years for The Chipmunks made it back to TV, with their 1981 Christmas special, the ingeniously named “A Chipmunk Christmas.”     Like a holiday Jason Vorhees, "The Chipmunk Song" re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007 with the CGI Alvin and Chipmunks movie.  As of December 25, 2011, Nielsen SoundScan estimated total sales of the digital track at 867,000 downloads, making it third on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles.  #3 was Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 from Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who I've had the mixed blessing to see live – the performance was great but the stage light swept over the audience constantly; it was like having a camera flash go off in your face several times a minute.  #1 is, to the surprise of no one, Mariah Carey's 1994 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and that's all the more attention she's getting from me.  If you ever want a real smdh moment, Google Mariah Carey's requirements to appear on camera for interviews.  The word “diva” doesn't begin to describe it.  Wonderful Now this one depends on the day.  Some days, it's so bad it's good and some days, and for some people all days, it's the regular kind of bad.  [sfx clip] Say what you will about it, you can't say Paul McCartney didn't put in the work.  Wonderful Christmastime features McCartney on guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals, even the creepy-sounding ‘choir of children.'  Makes one wonder why he even kept a band around.  You see the other members of Wings in the video, but the song was all McCartney.   Like a number of holiday classics that you heard about in the episode #92, The Jews Who Wrote Christmas, Wonderful Christmastime was written on a ‘boiling hot day in July', and recorded during sessions for the McCartney II album.  It apparently took the former Beatle just ten minutes to pen the song which – some of us find that more readily-believable than others.  One of the most memorable elements of the song is the odd synthesiser sound that punctuates it throughout.  That is, if you care to know, a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which was also used on the hit songs Bette Davis Eyes and What a Fool Believes.  Though I suppose it's still a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 even if you don't care to know.   It peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart and has since become of the most widely played Christmas songs on radio.   Bonus fact: The Beatles only really had one Christmas release – Christmas Time Is Here Again, which was distributed to their fan club in 1967.  I imagine that would fetch a pretty pence on the secondary market. [sfx typing] checking ebay…Oh, they're actually pretty cheap.     If you don't like the song, you're not alone.  McCartney himself isn't all that keen on it, but he has begun playing it on UK tours in recent years.  You gotta give the people what they want and clearly enough people want Wonderful Christmastime.  According to the Forbes website, McCartney earns over $400,000 royalties from the song every year, though other sources claim that figure is probably the cumulative total. Little Drummer Boy As time passes, tastes change, culture shifts, new things are created and old things fall away.  We rarely ride in one-horse open sleighs –I can't remember the last time I was even in a closed one-horse sleigh– and it seems really strange to us that people sat about telling ghost stories.  So maybe that's why I don't understand The Little Drummer Boy.  How is a drum solo an appropriate gift for a sleeping infant and the woman who just squoze him out in a cow-shed?  The ox and lamb kept time?  That's literally the drummer's only job.  Well, that and making the rest of the band's drinking problem look reasonable.  Hey, what's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?  You only have to punch the info into the drum machine once.  [sfx rimshot] What do you call a drummer who broke up with his girlfriend?  Homeless.  [sfx rimshot]  Don't worry, drummers, this abuse isn't exclusive.  What do you call the pretty girl on a bassist's arm?  A tattoo.  That's my time, good night!   How old do you think this slow, plodding song is?  I couldn't have put a year to my guess, but for some reason it surprised me that it was written in 1941.  The composure was a teacher named Katherine Kennicott Davis.  Originally called "Carol of the Drum" –does what it says on the tin– was based on an unidentified Czech carol and intended for choirs.  One group of singers took a liking to it and propelled it to success in 1951 - The Trapp Family Singers.   As boring as it is, The Little Drummer Boy lets us draw a straight line between the Trapp Family and ‘the lad insane' David Bowie.  In 1977, Bowie was 'actively trying to normalize' his career.  Debilitating drug addiction and accusations of Nazi-sympathizing threatened to sink his earning potential, so it was a no-brainer for him to appear on Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas.  Crosby was a crooner and golden age Hollywood icon and seemed like a means to the end because, as Bowie said later, “my mom likes him.”  The promise by producers to promote the video for Bowie's single Heroes, fitting as poorly as it did in the middle of a holiday special, certainly didn't hurt either.  The special starred Crosby, his actual family, and stars of the day like the model Twiggy, who my mother has still not forgiven for coming along and making curvy, busty figures unpopular.     So Bing Crosby and David Bowie.  On paper, it made no sense.  But in reality…it made even less sense.  A negative amount of sense, if that's mathematically possible.  I mean, just look at this juxtaposition.  You can see the two together on the Vodacast app… Bowie arrived in a mink coat, an earring, and bright red lipstick….to appear alongside Bing Crosby.  Bowie agreed to producers' demands to tone his look down, but asked/begged the producers if there was anything else, anything at all, he could sing, letting them know in no uncertain terms that he hated the song.   "Ian Fraser, who co-wrote the 'Peace on Earth' portion, told The Washington Post in 2006. 'We didn't know quite what to do.' Instead of panicking, he and two other men working on the special — Buz Kohan and Larry Grossman — hunkered down at a piano in the studio basement and spent 75 minutes working up the tune.  Ever professionals, Bowie and Crosby perfected the new song in less than an hour."  It was that professionalism that actually brought the men together.  According to Crosby's daughter, Mary, who was 18 at the time and a big Bowie fan,  "Eventually, Dad realized David was this amazing musician, and David realized Dad was an amazing musician. You could see them both collectively relax and then magic was made."  Bonus fact: Mary went on to become an actress, starring in the hit TV show Dallas, but she isn't the only thespian the Crosby legacy produced.  Bing's granddaughter Denise will always have a place in my heart as Tasha Yar, first chief of security on the Enterprise D and if you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe *you're* not cool enough to sit with *us* at lunch.   The special was recorded in mid-September, but Crosby would not see it released.  He died of a massive heart attack after a day of golfing in mid-October, so the special was aired posthumously at the end of November in the U.S. and on Christmas Eve in England.  Bizarrely, The single proved to be one of Bowie's fastest-selling singles, selling over 250,000 copies within its first month and being certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry one month after its release.  And what does it say about me that I had to do a second take, beause I read it as British Pornographic Industry.  They certify very different records.  One thing that helped propel that success was the fledgeling Music Television network, which in its original primitive state actually played music videos.  When it launched in 1981, there weren't really enough videos to fill up an entire channel, so they played what they had, including the 'Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy' clip, a lot.  This prompted RCA to issue an official release in 1982 with the arbitrary single B-side of "Fantastic Voyage" from The Lodger album.  Bowie was annoyed with that move, contributing to his departure from the label soon after.  Still, it was a high-charting single for Bowie in the post-Scary Monsters era, at least until Let's Dance came out three months later.   And that's…So the question was “Do they know it's Christmas?”.  Since Ethiopia is ⅔ Christian, yes.  I'd go out on a limb and say even the ⅓ that's Muslim knows. But the important thing is that 100% of the royalties go to the cause, and that figure sits north of $250 million.  Among the luminary names involved was a pre-beard George Michaels.  This was in his Wham days when he also recorded the song you're hearing now.  Recognize it?  To anyone who just lost Whamageddon… [sfx laughter]  Worth it.  Just passing it on after Red from Overly Sarcastic took me out during a video last year.  For everyone else, as the nearest Gen-X'er.  Remember…Thanks..     And that's…So the question was “Do they know it's Christmas?”.  Since Ethiopia is ⅔ Christian, yes.  I'd go out on a limb and say even the ⅓ that's Muslim knows. But the important thing is that 100% of the royalties go to the cause, and that figure sits north of $250 million.  Among the luminary names involved was a pre-beard George Michaels.  This was in his Wham days when he also recorded the song you're hearing now.  Recognize it?  To anyone who just lost Whamageddon… [sfx laughter]  Worth it.  Just passing it on after Red from Overly Sarcastic took me out during a video last year.  For everyone else, as the nearest Gen-X'er.  Remember…Thanks..    Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/music/read/david-bowie-bing-crosby-and-the-story-of-the-strangest-christmas-duet-ever-1.5008343 https://theconversation.com/christmas-earworms-the-science-behind-our-love-hate-relationship-with-festive-songs-89268 https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/worst-christmas-songs-of-all-time/3/ https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/story-behind-the-christmas-song-paul-mccartneys-wonderful-christmastime/ https://www.songfacts.com/facts/paul-mccartney/wonderful-christmastime https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/637970/banned-christmas-songs-past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chipmunk_Song_(Christmas_Don%27t_Be_Late) http://www.christmassongs.net/chipmunks-christmas-song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian https://nowweknowem.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/david-sevilles-the-chipmunk-song-won-three-grammy-awards-today-in-1959-the-top-winner-at-the-inaugural-grammy-awards-now-we-know-em/ https://holidappy.com/holidays/History-of-Christmas-Carols-Little-Drummer-Boy https://www.newsweek.com/story-behind-bowie-bings-unlikely-holiday-duet-sends-welcome-message-divided-times-opinion-1478295

90s Music Got Me Like... "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra The podcast that looks back on one song from the 90s every episode, hosted by Eric and Kendra Mikols. RSS - https://90smusicgotmelike.libsyn.com/ Website - radiomeanwhile.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/90smusicgotme Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/90smusicgotme

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with drummer Jeff Plate of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which rocks Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. on Dec. 23. They discussed the band's biggest holiday hits, from the guitar-shredding “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24” to the melodic “Christmas Canon," staples of the season.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Trans-Siberian Orchestra ( TSO ) es una banda de rock estadounidense fundada en 1996 por el productor, compositor y letrista Paul O'Neill , que reunió a Jon Oliva y Al Pitrelli (ambos miembros de Savatage ) y al tecladista y coproductor. Robert Kinkel para formar el núcleo del equipo creativo. O'Neill murió el 5 de abril de 2017. La banda ganó popularidad cuando comenzaron a viajar en 1999 después de completar su segundo álbum, The Christmas Attic , el año anterior. En 2007, el Washington Post se refirió a ellos como "un monstruo de arena-rock " y describió su música como "Pink Floyd se encuentra con Yes and the Who en el Radio City Music Hall ". TSO ha vendido más de 10 millones de entradas para conciertos y más de 10 millones de álbumes. La banda ha lanzado una serie de óperas de rock : Christmas Eve y otras historias , El ático de Navidad , La última noche de Beethoven , La víspera de Navidad perdida , su Night Castle de dos discos y Letters From the Labyrinth . Trans-Siberian Orchestra también es conocida por su extenso trabajo de caridad y elaborados conciertos, que incluyen una sección de cuerdas, un espectáculo de luces, láseres, trusses móviles, pantallas de video y efectos sincronizados con la música. Tanto la revista Billboard como Pollstar las han clasificado como una de las diez bandas con mayor venta de entradas en la primera década del nuevo milenio. Su camino hacia el éxito fue inusual en el sentido de que, según O'Neill, TSO es la primera banda de rock importante en ir directamente a los teatros y arenas, sin haber tocado nunca en un club, sin haber tenido un acto de apertura y nunca siendo un acto de apertura. Paul O'Neill dirigió y produjo bandas de rock como Aerosmith , Humble Pie , AC / DC , Joan Jett y Scorpions , y luego produjo y coescribió álbumes de la banda de metal progresivo Savatage , donde comenzó a trabajar con Jon Oliva (quien se había ido Savatage para pasar tiempo con su familia y ocuparse de asuntos personales), Al Pitrelli y Robert Kinkel . O'Neill dio sus primeros pasos en la música rock en la década de 1970 cuando comenzó el rock progresivo.banda Slowburn, de la que fue letrista y co-compositor. Lo que estaba destinado a ser el álbum debut de la banda fue grabado en Jimi Hendrix 's estudios Electric Lady y desarrollado por Dave Wittman. Aunque la ingeniería de Wittman capturaba el sonido exacto que O'Neill escuchaba en su cabeza, O'Neill tenía problemas con él porque muchas de sus melodías tenían entre dos y tres octavas. En lugar de lanzar un álbum con el que no estaba contento, dejó de lado el proyecto, pero continuó trabajando en la industria en Contemporary Communications Corporation (también conocida como Leber & Krebs). A lo largo de los años, O'Neill continuó trabajando como escritor, productor, gerente y promotor de conciertos. En 1996, aceptó la oferta de Atlantic Records de formar su propia banda. Construyó la banda sobre una base creada por la unión de la música clásica y el rock y los artistas que idolatraba ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer , Queen , Yes , The Who y Pink Floyd , y bandas de hard rock como Aerosmith y Led Zeppelin y los múltiples vocalistas principales de los grupos de R&B The Temptations y The Four Tops). Trajo a Oliva, Kinkel y Pitrelli para ayudar a iniciar el proyecto. O'Neill ha declarado: "Mi concepto original era seis óperas de rock, una trilogía sobre Navidad y tal vez uno o dos álbumes regulares" Su álbum debut, la primera entrega de la pretendida trilogía navideña, fue una ópera rock llamada Nochebuena y otras historias , y fue lanzado en 1996. Sigue siendo uno de sus álbumes más vendidos. Contiene el instrumental " Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 " que apareció originalmente en la ópera rock de Savatage , Dead Winter Dead , una historia sobre la guerra de Bosnia. Su lanzamiento de 1998 The Christmas Attic , la secuela de Christmas Eve and Other Stories siguió un formato similar. Este álbum produjo el éxito " Christmas Canon ", una versión del Canon en re mayor de Johann Pachelbel .con letras y nuevas melodías añadidas. The Christmas Attic se presentó por primera vez en vivo en 2014. La última noche de Beethoven fue escrita y grabada en 1998 y 1999 y entregada a Atlantic Records a fines de 1999 para su lanzamiento en 2000. La historia comienza cuando Mephistopheles aparece antes que Beethoven, a quien Paul O'Neill se refiere como "la primera estrella de rock pesado del mundo". para recoger el alma del gran compositor. Por supuesto, Beethoven está horrorizado ante la idea de la condenación eterna, pero el diablo tiene una oferta y comienza la negociación. Hay numerosos giros en la trama, incluido el destino de su música y el final se basa en un hecho cierto pero poco conocido sobre Beethoven. También en 1998, a petición de Scott Shannon de WPLJ , actuaron en vivo por primera vez en un concierto benéfico paraHospital de niños de Blythedale . En 1999, a instancias de Bill Louis, un DJ de WNCX en Cleveland, hicieron su primera gira, durante la cual debutaron secciones de Last Night de Beethoven . Interpretaron el álbum en su totalidad por primera vez durante la gira de primavera de 2010. En octubre de 2011, Beethoven's Last Night fue lanzado en Europa para coincidir con su gira europea con una nueva portada de Greg Hildebrandt y las páginas de poesía faltantes del lanzamiento original. Las canciones de Mephistopheles son cantadas por Jon Oliva . Para coincidir con la gira de primavera de 2012, Atlantic / Rhino / Warner Brothers Record lanzó Last Night: The Complete Narrated Version de Beethoven . [17] [18]Esta edición de lujo de dos discos incluye toda la música del lanzamiento original y, por primera vez, la narración presentada durante las presentaciones en vivo del álbum. Viene empaquetado con un folleto lleno de ilustraciones de la historia de Hildebrandt, además de la letra y la narración completas. La narración está a cargo de Bryan Hicks, quien ha estado manejando la narración en vivo en las giras de este álbum. El creador Paul O'Neill explica: "Así es como siempre imaginé que se experimentaría la historia. Donde el oyente pueda relajarse, cerrar los ojos y, en cuestión de minutos, pasear por las calles de la Viena del siglo XIX con Beethoven en la última gran aventura de su vida. Siempre que la banda estaba fuera de la carretera, regresaban al estudio y en 2004 completaban The Lost Christmas Eve , la última entrega de la Trilogía de Navidad. Es una historia de pérdida y redención que abarca un hotel ruinoso, una vieja tienda de juguetes, un bar de blues, una catedral gótica y sus respectivos habitantes, todos entrelazados en una sola Nochebuena encantada en la ciudad de Nueva York. Al año siguiente, combinaron los tres álbumes de Navidad y los lanzaron en una caja titulada The Christmas Trilogy, que también contenía un DVD de su especial de televisión de 1999 The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (cada uno de los álbumes sigue estando disponible individualmente .) La Nochebuena Perdidase presentó por primera vez en vivo en 2012, seguida de una gira encore en 2013. Los críticos una vez más lo llamaron "espectacularidad impresionante" "que incluía todos los trucos conocidos por el hombre, incluyendo pirotecnia masiva, láseres espectaculares, escenarios que se ciernen sobre el audiencia, cantantes de apoyo calientes mientras se conectan constantemente con su audiencia. Después de unos pocos años de gira, Night Castle , el quinto álbum de Trans-Siberian Orchestra, fue lanzado el 27 de octubre de 2009 y fue bien recibido por fanáticos y críticos por igual. Debutó en el puesto número 5 en las listas de álbumes de Billboard . Fue certificado oro en ocho semanas y ahora es platino. "Su trabajo más ambicioso y aventurero hasta la fecha. Abarca desde el hard rock hasta el clásico, llevando al oyente a un viaje a través de la historia que detalla los triunfos y las locuras del hombre, pero en última instancia es una historia de transformación y amor". Inicialmente destinado a ser su primera ópera regular, no rock, que consta de un álbum de diez canciones independientes, O'Neill le da crédito a la persistencia de Jon Oliva de que era demasiado pronto para tal movimiento y que el quinto álbum tenía que ser una ópera rock. Insistiendo en que "TSO no era como cualquier otra banda y que los fans esperaban una historia. Fue un poco de cambio de roles porque cuando estábamos trabajando en Savatage, siempre quise hacer un disco conceptual". El conjunto de dos discos incluye una versión de " O Fortuna " de Carmina Burana de Carl Orff , que fue vista previa en vivo por la banda durante sus giras 2004-2008. Una versión MP3 del álbum lanzada a través de Amazon.comcontiene una pista adicional titulada "El vuelo de Cassandra". La primera mitad es una ópera rock sobre una niña de siete años en una playa que conoce a un extraño de la ciudad de Nueva York que le cuenta una historia que la lleva por todo el mundo y a través del tiempo donde se encuentra con varios personajes, muchos de los cuales se basan en personajes históricos como Desiderius Erasmus . La segunda mitad rinde homenaje a las influencias de Trans-Siberian Orchestra. También contiene nuevas versiones de varias canciones de Savatage, así como " Nut Rocker ", originalmente de B. Bumble and the Stingers y que anteriormente se hizo famosa por Emerson, Lake & Palmer , con Greg Lake en el bajo. En febrero de 2011, Night Castle fue lanzado en Europa con dos bonus tracks en vivo ("Requiem" y "Toccata-Carpimus Noctem") añadidos. Ambas pistas en vivo fueron grabadas en la gira de primavera de 2010 en el Verizon Theatre en Grand Prairie , en Texas. Metal Kaoz, lo revisó como un CD de ópera rock doble de dos horas más con "sin relleno" que fluye sin problemas. "Las capas clásicas se encuentran con la belleza de la música Metal y forman la fina mezcla ... una amplia gama de emociones y colores musicales ... pistas que te dejarán boquiabierto. Pulsa play y deambula libremente en TSO's, Night Castle". El 30 de octubre de 2012, Trans-Siberian Orchestra lanzó un nuevo EP de cinco canciones titulado Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) en Lava Republic Universal Records. Debutó en la lista de los 200 mejores álbumes de la revista Billboard en el número 9 y el número 1 en las listas de rock. Fue el primer EP de la banda y con un precio de lista de cinco dólares o menos fue la forma en que Trans-Siberian Orchestra dio las gracias a sus fans, En lugar de contener la historia habitual de TSO, era más como un Harry Chapinálbum donde se incluye una historia corta dentro de la canción. Por ejemplo, "Algún día" trata sobre cómo las personas tienden a posponer el agradecimiento a las personas con las que tienen una gran deuda y, con la mejor intención, se dicen a sí mismos que lo harán algún día. Además, cada canción va acompañada de un breve poema. Lanzada el 11 de octubre de 2013, esta colección de quince pistas es la primera colección de grandes éxitos de Trans-Siberian Orchestra e incluye canciones de los seis lanzamientos anteriores. Una vez más, la portada fue proporcionada por Greg Hildebrandt . El 11 de noviembre de 2011, TSO lanzó una nueva pieza coral titulada "Who I Am". Esto se lanzó originalmente como una descarga digital para los fanáticos que compraron boletos a través de la venta anticipada de boletos de la banda, pero ahora está disponible a través de otros sitios de música, además de ser lanzado en su álbum de 2015, Letters from the Labyrinth . La canción se interpretó en vivo como el número de apertura de la gira de invierno de 2011 en reconocimiento a los tiempos difíciles por los que atravesaban muchas personas en el mundo, pero trayendo un mensaje de esperanza al señalar que juntos podemos resolver estos problemas como lo han hecho las generaciones anteriores en el pasado. Fue acompañado por clips de sonido y video de personas que ayudaron a la humanidad a progresar o superar situaciones aparentemente imposibles. La primera cita e imagen fue la voz del reverendo ML King repitiendo "Tengo un sueño ... que todos los hombres serán juzgados por el contenido de su carácter", seguido del desafío inaugural del presidente Kennedy, "No preguntes qué puede hacer tu país por ti ; Pregunta qué puedes hacer por tu país." Incluía fotografías de Jonas Salk, el científico que curó la polio, Santa "Madre" Teresa de Calcuta que pasó su vida cuidando a los no deseados y terminó con Neil Armstrong dando el primer paso en la luna y la cita parafraseada de Gene Kranz de la NASA con respecto a salvando a los astronautas a bordo de la cápsula espacial Apolo 13 dañada, que "el fracaso no es una opción". En 2013, la banda anunció el lanzamiento a fines de noviembre de una novela, Merry Christmas Rabbi . Conocida como la última pieza que falta en la Trilogía de Navidad, es el diario descubierto por la niña en la ópera rock Christmas Attic que conduce a la canción "Dream Child". Los comunicados de prensa lo describieron como "la historia de una fatídica Nochebuena y cómo una de las apuestas más locas en la historia humana conduce a una segunda oportunidad para un joven con problemas que se encuentra más allá del punto sin retorno" O'Neill murió el 5 de abril de 2017, a los 61 años, mientras se hospedaba en un hotel Embassy Suites by Hilton en el campus de la Universidad del Sur de Florida en Tampa. La causa de muerte determinada por la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado de Hillsborough, Florida , fue la intoxicación por una mezcla de metadona , codeína , Valium y doxilamina y la forma de muerte como abuso de drogas . En junio de 2017, la organización anunció que continuarían con su gira con temas navideños. La historia de Ghosts of Christmas Eve , que habían interpretado en 2015 y 2016, fue anunciada como su historia una vez más para la gira de 2017, David Z, bajista de TSO, murió el 14 de julio de 2017, mientras estaba de gira con Adrenaline Mob para su gira " We The People "; un tractor-remolque se desvió de la Interestatal 75 en Florida y golpeó el vehículo recreativo en el que viajaba Adrenaline Mob. Su compañero TSO y miembro de Adrenaline Mob, Russell Allen , también resultó herido en el accidente. Para la vigésima gira anual de invierno de TSO en 2018, la banda decidió hacer una gira una vez más con la historia de The Ghosts of Christmas Eve . En 2019, TSO regresó al espectáculo de Nochebuena y otras historias , que se había realizado previamente desde la gira inaugural de 1999 hasta 2011. No se realizará ninguna gira en 2020, debido a las continuas restricciones de reuniones masivas vinculadas a la Pandemia de COVID-19 en los Estados Unidos, En cambio, la banda está realizando una transmisión en vivo para 2020 que los fanáticos pueden comprar y ver el 18 de diciembre en línea.Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558

We continue with the new material and even have two compare the differences if you will. Welcome to broadcast 272 of the independent channel. On this program, lots of tunes of all kinds from the new material category. Set 1: Rachel Flowers, A B Set 2: Binaural Space, Visiting the Tented Camp Binaural Space, Birds, Crickets, Cows and Frogs Scott Lawlor, Ineffable Essense Scott Lawlor, The Edge of Emptiness Set 3: Dana Cunningham, River of Grace Dana Cunningham, Swimming With Stones Canadian Brass, A Visit From St Nicholas Canadian Brass, Nutcracker, suite from the ballet, Op. 71a~Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fair BYU Vocal Point, Sleigh Ride (feat. Madilyn Paige) [Live] BYU Vocal Point, Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 BYU Vocal Point, Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Set 4: Jewel, 03 Hands Jewel, Hands (Christmas Version) BYU Vocal Point, Nuttin' for Christmas Tonic Sol-fa, Nuttin' for Christmas Jewel, Ave Maria Jewel, Gloria Set 5: Marlborough Cathedral Choir, Ding Dong Merrily on High St. Paul Cathedral Choir, The Coventry Carol Wells Cathedral Choir, As with Gladness St. Paul Cathedral Choir, Once in Royal David's City St. Paul Cathedral Choir, Christmas Awake St. Paul Cathedral Choir, While Shepherds Watched That completes the program. Thanks so much for listening!

La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Savatage es un grupo estadounidense de heavy metal. Fue fundado por los hermanos Jon y Criss Oliva en 1979. La banda es reconocida por grabar algunos álbumes conceptuales. Sus orígenes pueden ser atribuidos al heavy metal clásico, influenciados por bandas como Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, Black Sabbath y Rush, lo que se puede apreciar claramente en su álbum debut, Sirens. Criss Oliva y su hermano Jon formaron su primera agrupación musical juntos, Avatar, en 1978, luego de la ruptura de sus anteriores bandas Tower y Alien respectivamente. En 1980 el dúo conoció a Steve Wacholz, y comenzaron a ensayar en una cabaña tras la casa de los Oliva, bautizada por la banda como The Pit. Wacholz, que originalmente había audicionado para la anterior banda de Jon, Alien, lo relevó de su posición en la batería. Steve luego recibió un apodo por parte de los Oliva que lo siguió por el resto de su carrera: "Doctor Hardware Killdrums", a veces acortado a "Doc" o "Doc Killdrums" refiriéndose a su estilo fuerte y violento de tocar la batería. Criss, Jon y Steve tocaron en clubes de Tampa y Clearwater durante varios años, hasta que en 1981 Keith Collins se unió a la banda, sustituyendo a Jon en el bajo. En 1982, Avatar formó parte de varias compilaciones de heavy metal, siendo la más notable la de "The YNF Pirate Tape", una promoción para bandas locales de Florida transmitida por la estación de radio Tampa 95ynf,En 1983 Avatar fue obligado a cambiar su nombre debido a que ese nombre ya estaba utilizado; combinando las palabras "Savage" y "Avatar" la banda dio con Savatage. Sus primeros dos álbumes, Sirens y The Dungeons Are Calling fueron lanzados por Par Recors, una firma independiente. 1985, firmaron un contrato con Atlantic Records y lanzaron su tercer álbum, Power Of The Night. Este disco, que fue producido por Max Norman, dio a conocer el poco convencional acercamiento a la música heavy metal, que incluía el uso liberal de teclados por parte de Jon en temas como "Fountain Of Youth" y canciones estructuradas al estilo Broadway como la usada en "Warriors". Power Of The Night recibió buenas críticas, pero careció de expectativas de ventas. Atlantic entregó fondos a la banda para grabar un videoclip de "Hard For Love", con la condición del tema que fuera renombrado como "Hot For Love" por propósitos de márketing. Ante la negativa de la banda de cambiar el título de la canción el, vídeo no fue grabado. En 1986, luego del lanzamiento de su cuarto álbum, Fight For The Rock; un intento fallido de acercamiento comercial impuesto por la compañía de grabación que fue llamado por la misma banda como "Fight For The Nightmare" (Luchar por la pesadilla), Savatage salió de gira con Metallica, Kiss y Motörhead. Muchos fanes de Savatage resienten la grabación del álbum y lo consideran una gran decepción. La banda tampoco estuvo feliz con el disco, en el cual la firma los presionó para incluir dos canciones cover. Jon Oliva había sido retenido para escribir material para otros artistas de la firma Atlantic, como John Waite y otros músicos de pop-rock, luego la firma se retractó y exigió a Savatage grabar el material ellos mismos. En una muestra de ingenuidad juvenil, la banda aceptó. Esto no sólo los destruyó en la prensa, casi terminó con la banda y Jon recayó en sus antiguos problemas de drogas y alcohol. Durante ese tiempo Keith Collins dejó la banda y fue reemplazado por Johnny Lee Middleton. Jon admitió recientemente que consideraba que el álbum poseía puntos fuertes, como el incluir una versión propia de la canción de Badfinger, "Day After Day". En 1987, Savatage lanzó su primer disco comercialmente exitoso, Hall Of The Mountaing King, el cual se convirtió en la base para lanzar a la banda a un escenario más popular. La agrupación grabó su primer videoclip para la canción "Hall Of The Mountaing King", que fue transmitido reiteradamente en el espacio televisivo de MTV, Headbangers Ball, posteriormente se realizó un video para la canción "24 Hours Ago". Este álbum además los introdujo a un nuevo estilo musical, presentando instrumentación sinfónica fuertemente influenciada por su nuevo productor, Paul O'Neill, quien sería parte importante en la forja de canciones futuras de la banda. O'Neill contribuyó en muchas de las canciones escribiendo gran parte de las letras, y le otorgó a Savatage una visión más conceptual con su próximo álbum, Gutter Ballet. Gutter Ballet, que fue lanzado en 1989, podría ser considerado como el punto de inflexión de la banda, puesto que desde este disco, Savatage cambió a un sonido más progresivo, escribiendo canciones más largas con melodías más complejas y ritmos vocales diferentes, en vez del estilo power metal aparente en sus trabajos anteriores. El cambio a un estilo más progresivo, incluso operístico fue inducido principalmente por Jon, luego de ver una presentación de la obra El Fantasma de la Opera en Toronto. Las canciones "Gutter Ballett" y "When The Crowds Are Gone" son ejemplos de esta influencia, que continuaría con su próximo álbum. Nuevamente, fueron hechos dos videos, "When The Crowds Are Gone" y "Gutter Ballett", también fueron ampliamente emitidos por MTV. Chris Caffery, quien había estado tocando para Savatage en el tour de 1987 como segunda guitarra rítmica y fuera de la vista del público, fue presentado como nueva incorporación a la banda en 1988. Un mensaje dedicado a él aparece en las notas finales del álbum Streets: A Rock Opera deseándole "Suerte en cualquiera que sea el camino que elija recorrer". Caffery desertó luego del tour de Gutter Ballet (antes de grabar Streets), pero luego retornaría a la banda. El disco Streets de 1991 no fue tan bien recibido como la banda esperaba, debido a que fue lanzado durante la época en la que el Grunge comenzaba a expandirse como la música más popular de la época. Aunque fue grabado un vídeo de "Jesus Saves", que fue también transmitido por televisión y atrajo nueva audiencia para Savatage. Luego de una gira para patrocinar el álbum, Jon Oliva dejó la banda para concentrarse en sus proyectos paralelos Doctor Butcher y su musical en Broadway, "Romanov", mientras seguía co-escribiendo canciones para Savatage junto a su hermano Criss y el productor Paul O'Neill, Jon eligió a su reemplazante como vocalista al ex-Wicked Witch, Zachary Stevens, quien había conocido y sido presentado a la banda por el mejor amigo de Criss y técnico en guitarras Dan Cambell. Steve Wacholz también dejó la banda, luego de la grabación de Edge of Thorns, además decidió no salir de gira con ellos; y eligió como su reemplazante al enérgico baterista Andy James, de la banda Roxx Gang. La alineación que presentó Savatage durante la gira de Edge Of Thorns es aclamada por muchos seguidores como la mejor alineación que la banda tuvo jamás. La banda grabó su prólogo a Streets, Edge Of Thorns en 1993, y por primera vez, Savatage comenzó a disfrutar de aclamación popular, recibiendo un incremento en la emisión por radio de sus canciones y una gira mundial que les otorgó una mención internacional como "el mejor Savatage en vivo". Sin embargo la tragedia envolvió a la agrupación cuando Criss Oliva murió a causa de un conductor ebrio el 17 de octubre de 1993. Jon decidió seguir con la banda, aunque ha admitido que "Savatage llegó a su término tras la muerte de Criss", en memoria de su hermano y para "mantener viva su música". Alex Skolnick se unió temporalmente a Savatage en 1994 para el lanzamiento de su noveno álbum, Handful of Rain, escrito por Jon y Paul. Aunque el álbum es técnicamente un disco de Jon Oliva en solitario, pues Jon grabó la mayor parte de los instrumentos, excepto por la guitarra líder (Alex Skolnick) y la voz (Zachary Stevens), fue lanzado bajo el nombre de Savatage, atribuyéndole el crédito de la batería a Wacholz y del bajo a Middleton, ya que Andy James había dejado la banda luego de la muerte de Criss para seguir con otros proyectos. La canción "Chance" fue la primera de Savatage en usar el contrapunto vocal, un estilo que mantuvieron para los discos siguientes. El tema final, "Alone You Breathe" es un tributo a Criss. Un CD/VHS, titulado Japan Live '94 (en lanzamientos posteriores fue renombrado como Live In Japan) fue lanzado al finalizar un breve tour de promoción del álbum de la banda paralela de Skolnick. Luego de la gira, Skolnick dejó Savatage para concentrarse en otros intereses. Su reemplazo sería nuevamente Chris Caffery, quien rindió homenaje a su gran amigo y ex compañero de banda interpretando los solos de Criss como él los hubiera tocado. Atlantic Records, no obstante, quería otro guitarrista más conocido, y Al Pitrelli fue elegido. En 1995 Savatage lanzó su segunda ópera rock, Dead Winter Dead, un disco conceptual incluso más ambicioso que su predecesor, en el sentido de que pretendían levantarse nuevamente con su lanzamiento. Lograron gran éxito con su sencillo "Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24", que fue largamente emitido por estaciones de radio durante la época de Navidad. Mientras estaban de gira por Europa y Japón, la banda renunció a un tour por América para trabajar en su nuevo proyecto, el álbum Christmas Eve and Other Stories de la banda paralela Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), que comprendía a Savatage con una gran orquesta. Jon Oliva ha admitido que le molestó el éxito que logró Trans-Siberian Orchestra con una canción originalmente de Savatage, o que le llevó a pensar que el principal obstáculo que tenía Savatage era el nombre. El undécimo disco, The Wake of Magellan, fue lanzado en 1998, luego de hacer una pausa para hacer frente al enorme éxito como TSO, y trataba con conceptos tales como el valor de una vida, el suicidio y el abuso de las drogas, además de eventos de la vida real, como el incidente de Maersk Dubai y el asesinato de Veronica Guerin. Savatage se separó por largo tiempo de la discográfica Atlantic Records luego de este lanzamiento y eventualmente firmó con una firma mucho menor, Nuclear Blast (aunque los discos de TSO seguirían siendo lanzados bajo la firma Atlantic). Jon dijo que "ésta fue una buena jugada, porque a Nuclear Blast le encantaba la banda, e incluso conocían todas sus canciones". Para ese momento, Savatage era tan alabado como criticado por su "metal estilo Broadway"; mientras TSO había encontrado una nueva audiencia, muchos antiguos y aplazados simpatizantes de Savatage se quejaban de que no existía una diferencia real entre el sonido de TSO y Savatage. Muchos fanáticos se sintieron dejados de lado debido a una falta de giras duraderas en América (pocas veces Savatage realizaba unos cuantas presentaciones en la costa este; con fanáticos europeos también sintiéndose alienados por falta de shows en la zona este de Europa) y el giro de un sonido metalero a uno más sinfónico. En el 2001 sale al mercado el disco Poets and Madmen, marcando el regreso a la banda de Jon Oliva como vocalista, reemplazando a Zak Stevens, quien abandonó la agrupación citando problemas familiares. El guitarrista Al Pitrelli también dejó la banda, ingresando a Megadeth ese mismo año. Savatage permaneció inactivo luego del lanzamiento de Poets and Madmen, con sus músicos interesados y enfocados en otros proyectos como Trans-Siberian Orchestra y Jon Oliva's Pain. Finalmente, la tan esperada reunión de Savatage se dio en el festival Wacken Open Air de 2015, Sobre el futuro de la banda, Jon Oliva explicó, "Luego de lo de Wacken, creo que si queremos hacer algo más, debemos hacerlo ahora. No quiero hacerlo cuanto tenga 60 años. Le hablé al respecto a Paul. Él me dijo que lo mejor sería esperar hasta enero y sentarnos a pensar en las posibilidades.'" Oliva también mencionó que Savatage tiene ofertas para realizar conciertos en Norteamérica, Suramérica, Grecia y otros lugares, y no descartó la posibilidad de realizar más presentaciones,

On this episode we catch up with Trans-Siberian Orchestra drummer Jeff Plate to get the scoop on what we can expect at Little Caesars Arena on December 28th, the story behind "Christmas Eve Sarajevo" and more!

Season’s Greetings, Witches! On today’s episode, Alicia and Terra dive into Yule: what is it, where does it come from, how can you celebrate it? The ladies also share with everyone The Series of Unfortunate (and Hysterical) Events surrounding Sweden’s own Gävle Goat. As 2019 comes to a close, Terra ends the podcast with a Ritual for New Beginnings.Links from Today's Podcast:"Yule Index: Rituals, Crafts, and Recipes for the Holiday Season""Yule Log Ritual for Winter Solstice Magick""Gävle Goat emerges from 2017 unscathed""The Gävle Goat Live Cam""All I Want For Christmas Is You," Merry Christmas, Mariah Carey. 1994."Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," Tales of Winter: Selections from the TSO Rock Operas, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. 2013.Hosted by Alicia Herder and Terra Keck.Produced and Edited by Marcel Pérez.Creative Directing by Mallory Porter.Music by Kevin MacLeod."Spellbound" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.Support Witch, Yes! by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/witch-yesThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

¿Cuáles son las mejores poladas de navidad? ¿Qué regala un tío para estas épocas? ¿Cómo sobrevive el godín a las fiestas? Todo esto y más en un episodio lleno de risas, historias y tíos tratando de ser graciosos. Lista de Artistas y Canciones: - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo: Trans-Siberian Orchestra. - All I want for Christmas Is You: Mariah Carey. - Feliz Navidad: José Feliciano. - Santa Claus Llegó a la Ciudad: Luis Miguel. - Navidad sin ti: Los Bukis. Playlist CV87 en Spotify. Charla Varia en directo por Mixlr (http://mixlr.com/escuchalive/). Solo... Escucha. Recuerden seguirnos en nuestras redes sociales: - Página web. - Charla Varia en Spotify. - Facebook. - Canal de YouTube. - Instagram. - Suscripción por RSS. - iTunes.

¿Cuáles son las mejores poladas de navidad? ¿Qué regala un tío para estas épocas? ¿Cómo sobrevive el godín a las fiestas? Todo esto y más en un episodio lleno de risas, historias y tíos tratando de ser graciosos. Lista de Artistas y Canciones: - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo: Trans-Siberian Orchestra. - All I want for Christmas Is You: Mariah Carey. - Feliz Navidad: José Feliciano. - Santa Claus Llegó a la Ciudad: Luis Miguel. - Navidad sin ti: Los Bukis. Playlist CV87 en Spotify. Recuerden seguirnos en nuestras redes sociales: Página web. Spotify. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter - @escuchalive. iTunes. Suscripción por RSS.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra knows where its bread is buttered. Its press shots are not of individual members but of its live show, which has become legendary for its spectacle with lights, lasers, pyro and countless moving parts including cherry pickers that carry members out over the crowd.  Alex Rawls talked to TSO guitarist/musical director Al Pitrelli about what a Christmas prog-metal band does for Christmas, and how he as a guitarist in the metal band Savatage responded when he was brought a Christmas song to play--"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24." Pitrelli also talked about TSO founder and songwriter Paul O'Neill, who died in 2017. During the conversation, we also hear "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," "Christmas Canon Rock," and "Wizards in Winter"--the song that launched a thousand light shows on suburban houses and lawns during the holiday season. For more background, see Alex's interview with Pitrelli on TSO's early years for The New Orleans Advocate in 2015.

Join us as we begin our holiday long bender of films and spirits, first up is the most controversial Christmas film ever Die Hard. Outro music: 08 - Christmas Eve - Sarajevo 12.24 Performed by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, from their 1996 album Christmas Eve & Other Stories

When Paul O'Neill first conceived Trans-Siberian Orchestra, his goal was as straightforward as it was incredibly ambitious. "The whole idea," he explains, "was to create a progressive rock band that would push the boundaries (of the genre) further than any group before... Way, way further." With more than 10 million albums sold, TSO has inspired generations of fans to rediscover the multi-dimensional art form of the rock opera. Meanwhile, on the road, they have become one of the world's top acts, with Billboard magazine naming TSO as one of the top touring artists of the past decade -- a $20 million-plus production that has played to over 100 million people in 80+ cities, selling more than $280 million worth of tickets and presenting $11 million to charity. O'Neill, a New York City native grew up, "with a wide-ranging world of (rock) musical influences." But, O'Neill also soaked up sources such as Broadway musicals, Motown and singer-songwriters such as Jim Croce and Harry Chapin, while authors such as Oscar Wilde and Robert Graves fueled his literary tastes. He began his career playing guitar for touring productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair, then went to work in the late '70s for Leber-Krebs Inc., the Manhattan management company whose clients included Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Def Leppard, the Scorpions, the New York Dolls, and scores of others. In the '80s, O'Neill became a major concert promoter in Japan as well, but returned to the States to start writing and producing full-time. O'Neill helmed Aerosmith's Classics Live I and Classics Live II albums before beginning a fortuitous relationship with the band Savatage that led to conceptual pieces such as Hall Of The Mountain King, Gutter Ballet, Streets: A Rock Opera and Dead Winter Dead. Producing introduced O'Neill to Jon Oliva, Bob Kinkel and Al Pitrelli, as well as reconnecting him with legendary studio engineer Dave Wittman, who all became key original collaborators in O'Neill's grand vision - Trans-Siberian Orchestra. "I wanted to take the very best of all the forms of music I grew up on and merge them into a new style," O'Neill says. "Basically I was building on the work of everybody I worshipped: the rock opera parts from bands like the Who; the marriage of classical and rock from bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Queen; the over-the-top light show from bands like Pink Floyd... I always wanted to do a full rock opera with a full progressive band and at least 18 lead singers." O'Neill took the idea to Atlantic Records which, to his surprise, went for it and financed the creation of Romanov, which was initially to be TSO's first release. "We were very fortunate," he says. "It was one of the only labels left that still did an 'old school' kind of artist development. My original concept was that we were going to do six rock operas, a trilogy about Christmas and maybe one or two regular albums." However, when Romanov got temporarily put on the back burner, the first installment of the Christmas trilogy, Christmas Eve and Other Stories became TSO's debut album. Fueled by the socially conscious single "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," the album was certified double platinum. More platinum certifications followed with 1998's The Christmas Attic, and the final installment of the Christmas trilogy, The Lost Christmas Eve in 2004. In the midst of completing the trilogy, TSO released their first non-holiday rock opera, the gold certified Beethoven's Last Night. But TSO really cemented its following in concert. The group hit the road in 1999, beginning an annual November-December extravaganza that O'Neill takes pride in being, "as over the top as we can make it. We have, two stages --with pyro, light and lasers-- on both sides of the arena, as well as in the crowd and the best sound we can find... There's no second-class seats at a Trans-Siberian Orchestra show. I want people to walk out of our shows speechless and still not believing w...

Edition #559 Our annual collective waste of time Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith  Ch. 2: Act 1: Progressives War On Xmas and O'Reilly's Response - Young Turks Air Date: 2010 Ch. 3: Song 1: Have I got a present for you - Toby Keith Ch. 4: Act 2: Sam wont cut and run from the war on Christmas - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years Ch. 5: Song 2: Christians and Pagans - Dar Williams Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News Gets Trigger-Happy in the War on Christmas - Media Matters Air Date: 11-9-11 Ch. 7: Song 3: Rockin' around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee Ch. 8: Act 4: War on Xmas - Santa under attack - Countdown Air Date: 12-13-10 Ch. 9: Song 4: The holidays are here and we're still at war - Brett Dennen Ch. 10: Act 5: The Blitzkrieg On Grinchitude - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010 Ch. 11: Song 5: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson Ch. 12: Act 6: The ACLU of Tenn. Accused of Terrorism - The Progressive Air Date: 2010 Ch. 13: Song 6: Lord's bright blessing - Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Ch. 14: Act 7: CNN vs. FOX: War on Christmas Edition - Media Matters Air Date: 12-1-11 Ch. 15: Song 7: Whoville welcomes Christmas - How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ch. 16: Act 8: Glenn Beck's story of the three wise men - Le Show Air Date: 2010 Ch. 17: Act 9: Interview with pro-Christmas activist - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years Ch. 18: Song 9: Sleigh ride - Amy Grant Ch. 19: Act 10: Does Fox News hate Baby Jesus? - Media Matters Air Date: 2010 Ch. 20: Song 10: Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season - Andy Williams Ch. 21: Act 11: Church and State During the Holidays - The Progressive Air Date: 12-13-11 Ch. 22: Song 11: There are much worse things to believe in - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson Ch. 23: Act 12: Scrooge was not the hero of 'A Christmas Carol' - Bill Maher Air Date: 11-11-11 Ch. 24: Song 12: Walking in the air - The Snowman Ch. 25: Act 13: War on Christmas: Part 4 - Media Matters Air Date: 2010 Ch. 26: Song 13: Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) - Trans-Siberian Orchestra Ch. 27: Act 14: Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010 Final comments on holiday nostalgia for the present Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes!

Edition #559 Our annual collective waste of time Visit BestOfTheLeft.com to share your favorite clips with your social networks! Join the virtuous cycle! Act 1: Progressives War On Xmas and O'Reilly's Response - Young Turks Air Date: 2010 Song 1: Have I got a present for you - Toby Keith Act 2: Sam wont cut and run from the war on Christmas - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years Song 2: Christians and Pagans - Dar Williams Act 3: Fox News Gets Trigger-Happy in the War on Christmas - Media Matters Air Date: 11-9-11 Song 3: Rockin' around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee Act 4: War on Xmas - Santa under attack - Countdown Air Date: 12-13-10 Song 4: The holidays are here and we're still at war - Brett Dennen Act 5: The Blitzkrieg On Grinchitude - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010 Song 5: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson Act 6: The ACLU of Tenn. Accused of Terrorism - The Progressive Air Date: 2010 Song 6: Lord's bright blessing - Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Act 7: CNN vs. FOX: War on Christmas Edition - Media Matters Air Date: 12-1-11 Song 7: Whoville welcomes Christmas - How the Grinch Stole Christmas Act 8: Glenn Beck's story of the three wise men - Le Show Air Date: 2010 Act 9: Interview with pro-Christmas activist - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years Song 9: Sleigh ride - Amy Grant Act 10: Does Fox News hate Baby Jesus? - Media Matters Air Date: 2010 Song 10: Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season - Andy Williams Act 11: Church and State During the Holidays - The Progressive Air Date: 12-13-11 Song 11: There are much worse things to believe in - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson Act 12: Scrooge was not the hero of 'A Christmas Carol' - Bill Maher Air Date: 11-11-11 Song 12: Walking in the air - The Snowman Act 13: War on Christmas: Part 4 - Media Matters Air Date: 2010 Song 13: Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) - Trans-Siberian Orchestra Act 14: Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010 Final comments on a song correction and how people's tribal instincts can result in resentment Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes!

Looking at the history of Savatage with the entrance of former Alice Cooper/Asia guitarist Al Pitrelli and the recording of 'Dead Winter Dead' featuring the chart-topper "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)"