Aaaand it's December again!
We've had this song before, but how could I resist? I mean, Black Friday was more than a week ago and my inbox is still overflowing with "BUY THIS HERE NOW!!!" emails, so...
Here's "The Christmas Can-Can (Animated Version)," lyrics and arrangement by Walter Chase, music (mostly) by Jacques Offenbach, sung by Straight No Chaser:
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Still nothing definitive about Walter Chase (although, as I said last year, it seems more likely than not that he is Jewish.
As for the melody, I know that (the Jewish) Offenbach titled it "Infernal Galop" in his first full-length operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld, but what I see when I hear that music is neither
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nor
Video posted by Petittwo, from the 1952 film Moulin Rouge
but
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What can I say? We are all products of our childhoods. Although just how Offenbach's childhood as the son of a synagogue cantor ended up producing someone who wrote nearly 100 operettas, I have no idea...
Here's "The Christmas Can-Can (Animated Version)," lyrics and arrangement by Walter Chase, music (mostly) by Jacques Offenbach, sung by Straight No Chaser:
Still nothing definitive about Walter Chase (although, as I said last year, it seems more likely than not that he is Jewish.
As for the melody, I know that (the Jewish) Offenbach titled it "Infernal Galop" in his first full-length operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld, but what I see when I hear that music is neither
nor
but
What can I say? We are all products of our childhoods. Although just how Offenbach's childhood as the son of a synagogue cantor ended up producing someone who wrote nearly 100 operettas, I have no idea...
What fun! It has been raining all day, would have been a depressing time but for these renditions 🤗
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