The lighting apparatus used in Miss Yvonne’s hair actually shorted and smoked during production and the crew had to intervene to remove the power pack from under her wardrobe and remove the wig which housed the lighting.
We have been host to some of the girls from the finest finishing school across the country – The Mata Hari Finishing School for Young Ladies – for years. Here’s the final guest programmers with some of their favorite Christmas jingles (we can not identify them by name because many of them are avoiding extradition for war crimes in other countries.)
All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey -
The song was co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, who started off as Whitney Houston's arranger and has co-produced and co-written many of Carey's hits, including One Sweet Day and Hero. He also won a 1999 Grammy award for co-producing Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree Brenda Lee -
This holiday classic about a holiday dance party was written by Johnny Marks, a very prolific Christmas songwriter who was Jewish. His other songs include Holly Jolly Christmas and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Step Into Christmas Elton John -
The song was written on a Sunday morning and recorded in the afternoon at the London Trident Studios, sparked by a riff Elton's guitar player, Davey Johnstone, came up with. The single was released in November 1973 and received heavy airplay, although it only reached #24 on the UK chart. It may have done better, but buyers may have been put off by the B-side: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas).
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Gayla Peevey –
People say that this is rarely heard - there's a reason. Apparently little Gayla didn't know that she was hoping for the beast that, "kills more people in Africa than any other animal".
O Holy Night Tori Kelly -
This carol has the distinction of being the first song ever to be played live on a radio broadcast. On December 24, 1906 a Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, broadcast one of the first ever AM radio programs, and the first ever to feature entertainment and music for a general audience, from his Brant Rock, Massachusetts station. After playing Handel's Largo on an Ediphone phonograph, he proceeded to play O Holy Night on his violin, singing the last verse as he played. He finished the broadcast by reading various passages from the Gospel of Luke, before wishing his listeners a Merry Christmas.
Christmas Tree Farm Taylor Swift -
Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm that was run by her parents at their Pine Ridge Farm home in Reading, Pennsylvania. Taylor Swift's childhood job on the Christmas tree farm was "picking the praying mantis pods off of the trees so the bugs wouldn't hatch inside people's houses."
Nice work if you can get it.
And so it goes
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