{"id":4067,"date":"2014-12-19T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2024-09-06T20:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:34:21","slug":"friday-vid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/friday-vid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/RfurmGiKZ5k<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d &#8211; Darlene Love<\/p>\n<p>Most holiday seasons there is one Christmas song I listen to a little more than the others, or one that connects with me a little more than the rest. Some years it is a relatively new song that gets stuck in my head. Other years it is a song I\u2019ve heard hundreds of times that suddenly tickles the right part of my brain.<a href=\"#fn-1\" id=\"fnref-1\" title=\"see footnote\" class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year-after-year, though, there is no finer, modern, secular Christmas song than this. That\u2019s likely because it\u2019s just a flat out amazing song. Adjust the lyrics a bit to take out the holiday references, and it becomes an all-time great pop song, suitable for playing in any season.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is the final time Darlene Love will be singing it on national TV. The good folks at Worldwide Pants have put together this mash-up from some of her appearances on David Letterman\u2019s show over the years. I suggest you stay up late tonight, or set the DVR, as I imagine this year\u2019s rendition will be especially good.<\/p>\n<p>(The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/20\/arts\/television\/darlene-loves-last-letterman-christmas.html?ref=television\">writes about tonight\u2019s performance here<\/a>. How in the hell did I not know that Love played Danny Glover\u2019s wife in the <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> series? I\u2019m so disappointed in myself.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn-1\">\nOddly enough, no song has emerged as <em>The One<\/em> this year.  <a href=\"#fnref-1\" title=\"return to article\" class=\"reversefootnote\">&#160;&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/RfurmGiKZ5k \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d &#8211; Darlene Love Most holiday seasons there is one Christmas song I listen to a little more than the others, or one that connects with me a little more than the rest. Some years it is a relatively new song that gets stuck in my head. Other years it is a song I\u2019ve heard hundreds of times that suddenly tickles the right part of my brain.[1] Year-after-year, though, there is no finer, modern, secular Christmas song than this. That\u2019s likely because it\u2019s just a flat out amazing song. Adjust the lyrics a bit to take out the holiday references, and it becomes an all-time great pop song, suitable for playing in any season. Tonight is the final time Darlene Love will be singing it on national TV. The good folks at Worldwide Pants have put together this mash-up from some of her appearances on David Letterman\u2019s show over the years. I suggest you stay up late tonight, or set the DVR, as I imagine this year\u2019s rendition will be especially good. (The New York Times writes about tonight\u2019s performance here. How in the hell did I not know that Love played Danny Glover\u2019s wife in the Lethal Weapon series? I\u2019m so disappointed in myself.) Oddly enough, no song has emerged as The One this year. &#160;&#8617;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14121,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}