This year I aspired to be like Dad and have a Little Drummer Boy free Christmas. It is getting much harder to do as more and more artists keep recording the song.
A casual search on iTunes turns up 150 versions!!! Here's a small sampling.
Here's how it went down - during breakfast this morning Steph, Jack and I thought we'd get a jumpstart on our holiday mood and put in the new Josh Groban Christmas album which I had picked up for her a few weeks earlier.
Track 1 turned out to be Silent Night - which didn't seem appropriate for Thanksgiving morning so we casually flipped to the next track... that's right - it was The Little Drummer Boy and my dream was shattered.
It gets worse though. We dutifully listened to the drummer boy while enjoying Kellog's new Blueberry mini-wheats (which we all like by the way - even Jack!)
The next song on Groban's album was I'll be Home for Christmas and this is one of the worst Christmas songs I've heard ever. It features those radio/TV clips of soldiers/loved ones talking about missing Christmas back home. It just didn't work. Thankfully - even Steph agreed and we pulled the plug on Groban about half way through the song.
We substituted the Jesus and Mary Chain and it was much improved breakfast and kick-off to our Thanksgving morning.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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We heard the cursed "L.D.B." over the loudspeakers in Walmart a few days ago.
I heard drummer boy at Sam's at 6:00 A.M. on black friday. Rumor has it that the increased threat of drummer boy is in fact haw black friday got its name.
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