Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!<\/a><\/p>\nand wow, they\u2019re going to be playing at disney hall in LA on new year\u2019s eve. i already have plans. too bad. that would be an awesome new year\u2019s show.<\/p>\n
but they\u2019re going to be in austin in the spring. maybe i\u2019ll go see them then.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t 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\u2019t remembersuddenly a voice said “grace! it\u2019s “the year without a santa claus!” and luckily, it was leigh ann smith, standing a few people back from me. leigh ann isn\u2019t related to me, but she\u2019s quite brilliant, remembering the show. i came home and looked it up online, and here\u2019s a summary:<\/p>\n
The Year Without a Santa Claus<\/p>\n
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 <\/p>\n
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\u2019ve discovered is ambivalence about Santa\u2019s 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\u2019ll Have a Blue Christmas Without You,” and “Here Comes Santa Claus.”<\/p>\n
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and there you have it. whew. i haven\u2019t even listened to my fabulous new cd yet. <\/p>\n
good night.<\/p>\n
grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
they were OUTSTANDING. better even than i thought they\u2019d be. i\u2019m going to look them up and see where else they\u2019ll 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-6w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}