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ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2009 PT.4 FINAL

I am rushing this chapter out to give everyone nice enough to listen to me, the chance to do so without my intruding on their busy schedules at a hectic time.
Also for those internet stations I am on, well if you would like to run these shows earlier than I am scheduled, good for you- and good for me!
My show was/is always broadcast on Tuesdays, and I am a creature of habit, so it is out here in time for Christmas.
As our Christmas Party winds down, I’ll give you some insight about how I go about doing programs.
I have literally dozens of ideas for Theme shows at any given time- the most difficult part is committing to one, as new ideas keep popping up.
These ideas are in various stages.
Some are written down and almost complete, others are just bouncing around in my head.
And still others are just half-baked ideas that come to me spontaneously.
That’s the case here.
The March Of The Wooden Soldiers is considered a Holiday movie, and I recently saw it.
It came out in 1934, stars Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, and if you look at the beginning of the original movie you will see it is actually called Babes In Toyland.
Here’s the half-bake…I wondered if I could perhaps musically capture some of that movie- the feeling of children and the aging children that we are- for this show.
I decided to give it a try.
As always, how successful I was is left to you the listeners.
But I did try, lol!
In concluding, this two-week Party will disperse with something that may surprise, even shock you, on your way out.
That there is an ORIGINAL version, by the SAME singer, of a Christmas Song you well know- and it was done at least FOURTEEN years earlier!
For what I would like to wish you wonderful people during this beautiful time of year, my own words are not good enough.
So I’ll steal from Charles Dicken’s character, Tiny Tim.
“Merry Christmas…And God Bless Us Every One!”

Mike

Tags: Babes In Toyland, Charles Dickens, Christmas Song, Holiday Movie, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, The March Of The Wooden Soldiers, Tiny Tim