{"id":6754,"date":"2012-12-01T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2013-08-27T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:39:03","slug":"on-ramping-up-the-christmas-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6754","title":{"rendered":"On Ramping Up the Christmas Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be December without &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the version that you probably hear on the radio at least twice this time of year, this is the extended remix by Trevor Horn.  It&#8217;s notable for a few things.  The instrumentation is mixed lower so the vocals are more prominent.  And there are a number of spoken messages about Christmas and feeding the poor in the latter half of the track.  David Bowie makes a heartfelt plea, while Paul McCartney is strange and goofy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mOKwyNcVK2U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It also wouldn&#8217;t be December without Beatle-esque Christmas music:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9iXywelfqI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a track by The Fab Four, a Beatles tribute band.  Ten years ago I bought two CDs of Christmas music that they had recorded.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1567\">Here&#8217;s some thoughts on those albums<\/a>.)  They&#8217;ve now remastered those albums and recorded two new tracks, including this &#8220;Let It Be&#8221;-style take on &#8220;The First Noel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I need to double-dip. :h2g2:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be December without &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221; Instead of the version that you probably hear on the radio at least twice this time of year, this is the extended remix by Trevor Horn. It&#8217;s notable for a few things. The instrumentation is mixed lower so the vocals are more prominent. And there<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6754\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Ramping Up the Christmas Music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[237,96,97,98],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-david-bowie","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-the-fab-four","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}