Monday, December 09, 2019

The Advent Jukebox, Day 9....Vincent


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Sure, van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night while looking east, out out of his monastery/asylum window in the wee hours of a June morning in 1888.

But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have a holiday season quality about it.

And, heckfire, Robert Wells and Mel Torme wrote that tune that Nat King Cole made famous about chestnuts roasting and all that while lounging around a pool during a blistering Los Angeles heatwave in 1945.

So...

Go figure.

Anyway...here's my take on the American Pie guy's ode to Mr. van Gogh...



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What's this Advent Jukebox business all about?....Well, the idea of a homemade 'song a day'-type advent calendar/jukebox came to me in late November a few years ago....And when the tunes began they were, essentially, lullabies for our oldest kid who was half a continent away cramming for final exams...Now, well, the whole thing just seems to be a bit of a tradition, if such a thing is possible on the ever changing interweb of everchanging platforms 'n things.



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