Showing posts with label Snoopy. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Snoopy Thanksgiving Prayer

 










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Friday, December 14, 2018

Who performed " O Christmas Tree " / " O Tannenbaum " best? 🎄













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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Who performed "Jingle Bells" best?





















































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Monday, November 26, 2018

Linus Thanksgiving prayer Fact Check













And in the spirit of psalm singing Puritans:





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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Snoopy Thanksgiving & Jazz


Of course, leftists accuse Snoopy of being racist because they accuse everybody and everything of being racist:


























From: 

Billboard, Jeff Levenson. “Playing For Peanuts Jazz Album By Wynton Marsalis Expresses His Affection For Music Of Charlie Brown Specials.” Spokesman.com, The Spokesman-Review, 13 July 2011, www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/mar/05/playing-for-peanuts-jazz-album-by-wynton-marsalis/.


“Everybody knew those Charlie Brown specials. They were the only time you heard people swinging on TV.” “Guaraldi was almost courageous,” he says, “because he was given a certain kind of freedom, and he went with it. Jazz was never welcome on network television. He took a jam-session approach, which was far more characteristic of jazz musicians than the typical approach taken by Hollywood composers."







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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Why did ABC ruin Snoopy Christmas w/cameo from guy who puts Mao on his Mawlid al-Nabi bush?

ABC ruined a perfectly fine homage to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with this pagan drivel from the Obamas:



POTUS: Hi, everybody. We'll be brief, because we know that adults all sound like 'Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah' Especially here in Washington.
FLOTUS: Good grief!
POTUS: But, we want to wish a Happy 50th Anniversary to one of our country's most beloved traditions - 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'.
FLOTUS: For half a century, people of all ages have gathered around the TV to watch Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the gang teach us the true meaning of Christmas.
POTUS: They teach us that tiny trees just need a little love.  And that on this holiday we celebrate peace on earth and goodwill toward all.
FLOTUS: Because as Linus knows, that's what Christmas is all about.
POTUS: So, Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown. Here's to 50 more years.





























Neither POTUS nor FLOTUS mentions that Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' birthday, not some druid celebration over little trees.

Snoopy creator, Charles Schultz, points out how important it was to him to include the Biblical reason for Christmas in his special



POTUS and FLOTUS evoking Linus, who quotes the Bible: Luke2: 8 during the special, just seems to add insult to injury:




And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo , the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid . 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold , I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes , lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying , 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This saccharine pablum translation of Luke 2:14 "peace on earth, good will toward men" has been incorporated into Longfellow lyrics of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day":




However, as persnickety people have noticed, Luke 2:14 is a faulty English translation from the Latin, from woodyoubelieveit Tuesday, November 17, 2015 post "PEACE ON EARTH TOWARD MEN OF GOOD WILL"


My cousin, Julie Greenman has been studying Latin. She made the comment, In the KJV of the Bible it says, "Glory the God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill toward men". However, the literal translation should be, "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth toward men of goodwill.
No, God is NOT like a doting, half-senile grandpa, who is sitting there on the porch smiling at everyone who passes by, including the neighborhood thugs who have been harassing the little kiddos.  Those who merit goodness are meted goodness.  All else will suffer with the wicked and be cast out into a place of indescribable hell until they find it in themselves to bend that knee and confess Jesus as their Savior (whether they take advantage of it, or not).
So, there you have it.  No smooth words and no false doctrine here.
Ironically the  lyricists who put together the counterpoint to Bing Crosby's duet with David Bowie at the last minute at least got the translation correct:



But taking both Christ and mass out of Christmas is what you would expect from people who put atheist Mao ornaments on their Mawlid al-Nabi bush. From  FoxNews.com December 24, 2009 "White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire"






And more creeping cultural jihad from Jim Hoft gatewaypundit  Dec 15th, 2010 post  "School District Decides Christmas Tree Must Include Muslim and Jewish Symbols"


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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

#TheGoodWife operatic interlude "O mio babbino caro"

I obviously disagree with this tweet:


because as a former band nerd, I always pay attention to television shows background music.

There are obviously other music nerds, to wit (yes it's "wit" not "whit"),  Christophe Caron Soriano who takes the original audio, strips out the actors' dialogue yackity yacking, and posts the music soundtrack:




"The Good Wife" Se6Ep1 "The Line" episode opened with an instrumental song whose title I couldn't remember:


TuneFind wasn't helpful because it only goes to season 5.

HeardOnTV was also not helpful because apparently they don't list classical music on soundtracks (I thought).


At first I thought the song sounded like Liszt - Liebesträume in A-Flat Major, Dreams of Love 




Then I thought it vaguely sounded like the theme to "Upstairs, Downstairs"




then my neurons fired and my Carl Sagan "Cosmos" binders opened up:






and I vaguely recalled a Classic Arts Showcase clip which I incorrectly remembered (I'm not the only one) as "O Bambino" but is actually "O mio babbino caro" from "Gianni Schicchi" composed by Giacomo Puccini




Youtube if very polite and spellchecks you without overtly judging you on being culturally illiterate:















Then, it further dawned on me I could try to corroborate this answer by double checking attributed songs from the last episode from last season: Se5Ep22 "A Weird Year"




and they helpfully remind people that this song was also featured in the historical Brit flick "A Room with a View":



However, they neglected to point out that it's the same song Woodstock whistles for Peppermint Patty's ice dancing program in "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown " when her taperecorder malfunctions:




I agree with Joseph Ryan's critique of the then ten soulless people who voted the Snoopy video down:



and more recently, "O mio babbino caro" made a cameo in "Gotham":







Conversely, answering "O mio babbino caro" on the New York Philharmonic buzzfeed quiz: "Which Fierce Female Are You?"
















helps one to be described as NY Phil fierce female, Maria Callas:


















And thus it would only make sense to end with a Maria Callas performance of  "Oh Mio Babbino Caro" uploaded by Daniel Kurganov:

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Saturday, November 30, 2013

#SnoopyThanksgiving dubbed into Spanish

 
I just noticed Snoopy Thanksgiving was dubbed into Spanish for people who want to be multicultural.
 
 


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