a snowy-blowy christmas, a mistletoe-y christmas
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Track:Turkey Lurkey Time
I'm going to hop into the wayback machine with emscee and visit the '60s.
In late '68, Promises, Promises, a musical adaptation (by Bacharach-David) of the brilliant and beloved movie The Apartment, opened on Broadway. Promises is neither brilliant nor, as far as I know, beloved, though it did feature Jerry Orbach and a winsome ingenue named Jill O'Hara, and the lovely duet "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." And it did have a young Michael Bennett as choreographer; witness this uber-exuberant number, "Turkey Lurkey Time."
So many of our favorite holiday songs (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Merry Christmas, Darling; etc.) are filled with wistfulness and melancholy and longing (not that there's anything wrong with that). Here's some cork-popping merriment as an antidote.
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Maybe you know this, but among the many amazing things about the movie Camp is the music-camp teenagers' staging of this number. Having trouble embedding this, so here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN692nmEQiw
I was this close to including that clip. It's one of the best parts of the movie.