they were OUTSTANDING. better even than i thought they’d be. i’m going to look them up and see where else they’ll be playing. i bought their xmas cd, and a cool, vintage-looking poster that i had them all sign. and a t-shirt. i never buy stuff at concerts, and certainly not that much stuff.
ok, wait, here’s their website: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!
and wow, they’re going to be playing at disney hall in LA on new year’s eve. i already have plans. too bad. that would be an awesome new year’s show.
but they’re going to be in austin in the spring. maybe i’ll go see them then.
this one song they played, which is on their great xmas cd, is called “mr. heatmiser.” i remembered it from a great rudolph-type animated kids show, but i couldn’t remember the name of the show. but the song was SO GREAT! i remembered that there was the heat miser and the snow miser, and that great song…but i couldn’t remembersuddenly a voice said “grace! it’s “the year without a santa claus!” and luckily, it was leigh ann smith, standing a few people back from me. leigh ann isn’t related to me, but she’s quite brilliant, remembering the show. i came home and looked it up online, and here’s a summary:
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Even Santa can suffer a case of the holiday blues. In this 1974 stop-motion holiday family favorite, a sparkly eyed Mrs. Claus (voiced by Shirley Booth) sings and tells about the year her
hubby felt too weary and too unappreciated to prepare for his annual Christmas rounds. Mickey Rooney stars as the voice of Santa, a rosy-nosed puppet who travels incognito to Southtown in search of his tiniest reindeer, Vixen, and two well-meaning elves. Seems Mrs. Santa sent them to find proof of Christmas spirit–but all they’ve discovered is ambivalence about Santa’s year off. Luckily, when Santa arrives and befriends a buck-toothed lad named Ignatius Thistlewhite, spirits begin to lift rapidly. Adult fans of this cousin to the 1970 television special Santa Claus Is Coming to Town will remember it as the Heat and Snow Miser movie. Their vaudevillian theme songs, complete with trombone and piano riffs, are hard to forget, but other treasured musical moments include “I Believe in Santa Claus,” “I’ll Have a Blue Christmas Without You,” and “Here Comes Santa Claus.”
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and there you have it. whew. i haven’t even listened to my fabulous new cd yet.
good night.
grace