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Thread #53930   Message #1063786
Posted By: MAG
01-Dec-03 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Christmas parodies II
Subject: RE: Christmas parodies
I heard a cut from Christine Lavin's holiday release, "The Runaway christmas Tree" on our local folk show (Dan Maher, Inland Folk, NPR out of Pullman WA). I liked it and bought the CD. I am not greatly impressed by the two original children's stories but the music is just fine.

Tacobel's Canon isn't christmas but a great parody ( and self-explanatory).

"Scalloped Potatoes" is what I bought it for.

Christine and friends sing some traditional rounds straight and I love that kind of music so it is on balance a worthwhile purchase. (but not for the stories.)

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