Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:10 PM Bill Barclay is in the line-up for Maggie Cruickshank's annual charity concert at the Pleasance Edinburgh on 15th January: hope it won't be too long after Christmas for him to do the song! Tickets always sell out fast for Maggie's concert: if anyone's interested, PM me for more details. TB |
Subject: Copy of 12 Daze of Christmas (Fay McKay) From: GUEST,Susu (susanneboston@msn.com) Date: 20 Dec 04 - 05:12 PM Hey guest who posted this morning @10:55 a.m. about the Fay McKay version, I have it. Susu |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: ossonflags Date: 20 Dec 04 - 04:06 PM " On the first day of Christmas I took to bed with me, my Lord Montague of Beulee"............................... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,guest Date: 20 Dec 04 - 10:55 AM I just heard the female version this morning -- The 12 Drunk Days of Christmas. The singer is Fay McKay and I'm trying to locate it. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 19 Dec 04 - 05:44 AM I gave all the details higher up the post, Breezy. How many cums and rokes (as in Bill Barclay song) have you had? Cheers and Garry Crimble to all Batty Togle |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: breezy Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:52 AM must endorse the Bill Barclays rendition 'Join in , Its easy' + 'I didnt make a noise during the bingo' 'Dya no no the wurds?' + 'Watch yer timing' The CD 'Bah humbug' only came out two years ago I think, great pressie from Greentrax - not as I previously thought. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,susu Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:22 AM Ok folks! here is some answers for you. As I stated before the artist is FAY MCKAY, she was a comedienne in the 60's performing with Liberace on several occasions. She was kind of plump in a Roseanne Barr way, I say Barr because that was one of here thinnest periods, kind of roly poly. I believe she is no longer with us, but she was a comic genius with this song but never got the recognition she deserved. The actual name of the song is "The 12 Daze of Christmas". Happy Holidaze to all of you. Susanne |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,maimzini@pacbell.net Date: 15 Dec 04 - 07:57 PM I haved the recording. It is definitely not Madeline Kahn. I'm in radio and play it where we broadcast. I've had the recording for years, finding it on a tape and keeping it ever since. I have played it every year at Christmas time, never knowing who it was, nor ever being able to find it in record stores. Lord knows I've looked. I chalked it up to a female comedienne of the kind that thrived in the early sixties, when the performing venues were in the Catskills and Miami Beach. These were the days when Jackie Gleason did his show in Miami and Johnny Carson was based in New York City. Intrepid listeners have been on the hunt this year and we have several leads as to the singer's identity. A recording? Well, who knows. Someone has it somewhere who might someday make it commercially available. We've talked about doing that next year as a charity effort. We'll see. The "quest" among listeners has taken a life all its own though, and of course, the song is priceless and brilliantly performed. Bruce Sacramento |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: PoppaGator Date: 15 Dec 04 - 01:27 PM Heard on the radio last night: Frankie Ford's "12 Drinks of Christmas." (That's Frankie Ford who recorded "Sea Cruise" in the 1950s, not Frank Ford of www.frets.com.) Frankie's is a New-Orleans-flavored version, with references to Hurricanes and Ramos Fizzes included in his roster of drinks. He tries to sound as drunk as possible, and progressively moreso as the song progresses; on the third day he gets "3 Chivas Regals," but by the 8th or 10th day it has become something like "3 Reegus Chevals." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Susu (susanneboston@msn.com) Date: 15 Dec 04 - 12:26 PM It won't let me create a link (I get an error message stating that this site is stealing the links site's bandwidth) but I can send it to anyone who emails me for it. Susu |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Susu (susanneboston@msn.com) Date: 15 Dec 04 - 12:09 PM Okay after going to the website by April Winchell I learned that the artist was Fay McKay (I think I knew that like 100 years ago but forgot, and then a local station here in Dallas said they thought it was Madeline Kahn so I thought that wouldn't surprise me. Here are the Lyrics to that version as best I could do on short notice. I could get more detailed on the gibberish if you want, but you will have to email the request to me. Susu 12 Daze of Christmas On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree. On the second day of Christmas my true love to me 2 Cutty Sarks, and a partridge in a pear tree. On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me 3 Old Crows, 2 Cutty Sarks, and a partridge in a pear tree. On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, 2 Cutty Sarks, and a partridge in a pear tree. On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me- 5 dry riiiiigh - rye (giggles), 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, 2 Cutty Saaarks (belching the word Sarks), and a partridge in a pear tree. On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 6 Cuba Libre's, 5 dry riiiiigh rye, 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, 2 Cutty Saahhh , and a tree, and a bird with the fruit on the limb. On, on the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me 7 Johnny Walkers, 6 Cuba Libre's, 5 dry rye, 4 Old Fitzgerald's , 3 Old Crows, 2 Cutty Sss, and a tree, and a tree, and a tree in the meadow. On the eighth day of Christm, on the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave me 8 Sea Old Fashions, 7, 7, 7 Johnny Walkers, 6 Cuba Libre's, ah (skips 5), 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, 2 Cut, and a, and a surrey with the fringe on the top. On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave meeee 9 my, my, 9 my, mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the- 9 mar- margaritas, 8 Sea Old Fashions, 7 Johnny Walkers, 6 Cuba Libre's, aaahh, 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, eed uuh, uh, doo doo doo dee do (whistles). On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave 10 rum mai hai, 9 ria 9 ris, 9, 9 roto rotors, 8 Sea Old Fashions, 7 Johnny Walkers, 6 Cuba, iah, oh, chucka chucka chucka, aaahh, (whistles). On the eleventh day of Christmas my true gave love to meeeeeee 11, 11, 11 (makes puking sounds and coughs thank you) bloody mary's, 10 rum mai hai, 9 ria, 8 Sea (quickly runs through the rest of it making gibberish noises then whistles) On twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave meeeee 12 by my sweetie, 11 of that green stuff, 10 mai mahama, 9 rigor mortis, 8 Sea Old Fash, 7 somma, 6 shuue, ohh uuhhh, 4, 4 Old Fitz, 4, 4 Old Fitzgerald's, 3 Old Crows, 2 City Parks and a cartridge in a pear treeeee. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Susu Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:41 AM The female version was supposedly by Madeline Kahn, but I could not verify that. I have an old copy still and could translate it if anyone wants, but I don't know where you can get an actual copy of the song. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Flash Company Date: 12 Dec 04 - 10:09 AM The Penelope Keith version is probably the one written by John Julius Norwich, in which the true love starts off delighted with the partridge, gradually becomes more exasperated, and finally breaks off the engagement on the arrival of 'the entire percussion section of The Liverpool Philharmonic'. There is also a television version which I can't remember beyond the first day being ' A sixty inch colour TV' and featuring along the way 'Five Old Bings' FC |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Henrik W. Date: 12 Dec 04 - 08:03 AM Drinks in Bill Barclay's rendition 1st day: wee heavy and a half pint 2nd day: two nips of gin 3rd day: three black and tans 4th day: four Baby chams 5th day: five Happy Days 6th day: six Carlsberg specials 7th day: seven rum & cokes 8th day: eight nips of whisky 9th day: nine vodka'n'limes 10th day: ten creme de menthes 11th day: eleven Blue Lagoons 12th day: twelve Alka Selzers Actual version impossible to reproduce in writing - must be heard! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:23 PM LOZER just give me the wordz to the 12 dayz of drunkin xmas out therre cuz we gettin drunk over herre! yay yayeee |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 09 Dec 04 - 08:20 PM Buy the CD "Bah humbug": the Bill Barclay version is on there along with another dozen or so very funny "Alternative christmas songs" - greentrax recordings G2CD7007 at www.greentrax.com. According to the CD sleeve, Bill Barclay originally recorded it in 1974, but re-recorded it for Greentrax in 1991. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,kevin Date: 09 Dec 04 - 03:43 PM www.aprilwinchell.com has the female version of this song in the multimedia section. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Melani Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:22 PM I once sent a fancily-printed version of the formal Edwardian-style "Twelve Thank-you Notes of Christmas" to my relatives as a Christmas card. Same basic idea as the version above, but ending with a summons from a solicitor. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Scotus Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:08 PM I'm pretty sure Andy Ramage's version is from Bill Barclay (but it may be the other way round, of course). Jack |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,pacer@mail.uch.org Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM I've been trying to get that female version from the 70's. The funniest I've ever heard! I heard it on the LOOP several times and then found it on cassett in some little store near sox park. Can't locate it. PLEASE...anyone who knows where to find it, let me know!!!! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:33 AM I remember a similar version sung by a female and with each line she talked like she was getting a little more smashed as she sang. This dates back to the early 70s. Anyone remember it? I think WGN in Chicago used to play it. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Schantieman Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:53 AM There was a play on the radio one Christmas - well, more of a monologue really. Penelope Keith or someone of that ilk reading her letters of thanks (at first) to her true love. Rather like Big Tim's contribution above. Eventually she calls in her solicitors. You had to be there. Steve |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Jack Date: 23 Nov 04 - 03:15 PM The Scots version was indeed sung by Bill Barclay who used to appear regularly on Radio Forth in Edinburgh when I lived up there. His webpage is here: http://www.billbarclay.com/ On the first day of Christmas his true-love gave to him a Wee Heavy and a half pint. J |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:09 PM I just bought a copy of the Frankie Ford version in hopes of finding the one where a lady sings it.No lady singing but it was the song. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Lighter at work Date: 27 Oct 04 - 05:41 PM How about the Vietnam War version? Starts with "old Ho Chi gave to me - a sniper in a palm tree." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Blackford John Date: 27 Oct 04 - 02:21 PM Does anyone know the version sung by Andy Ramage |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Herga Kitty Date: 30 Mar 02 - 10:03 AM Was it Frank Kelly or someone else who worked out the full implications of the accumulation? - 1st day, a partridge, 2nd day 2 turtle doves and a partridge - by day 12 the recipient had acquired 12 partridges, 22 turtle doves, 30 French hens, 36 colleybirds, 42 geese (a-laying, so there might have been more) and 42 swans. Plus 40 maids a-milking (which suggests there must have been a few cows around too) and another hundred assorted bodies (dancing ladies, leaping lords, pipers and drummers drummers). No wonder she needed a drink (at least she had the 40 gold rings to pay for one). The Kipper Family used to perform the Poacher's Christmas, starting with a partridge in a sack. On one of the days there were rabbits, all with dirty habits, so the total would have been increasing exponentially..... Kitty
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Big Tim Date: 30 Mar 02 - 05:03 AM I've dug out the old single. Who's Frank Skerrit? It was actually by Frank Kelly, very,very,very Irish, prob Dub, in 1983. Called "Christmas Countdown" ("traditional"). I believe it was a big hit in Ireland and only a minor one in UK. Don't have time to transcribe the whole thing now - big job with no "pause" control. The first two verses are; Day One. Dear Nuala, thank you very much for your lovely present of a partridge in a pear tree. We're getting the hang og feeding the partridge now although it was difficult at first to win its confidence. It bit the mother rather badly on the hand but they're good friends now and we're keeping the pear tree indoors in a bucket. Thank you again. Yours affectionately Guvnot(?) O'Lunacy. Day Two. Dear Nuala, I cannot tell you how surprised we were to hear from you soon again and to receive your lovely present of two turtle doves. You really are too kind. At first the partridge was very jealous and suspicious of the doves and they had a terrible rowin' the night the doves arrived. We had to send for the vet and the stitches are due to come out in a week or two. The vets bill came to nearly 12 pounds. After this the chaos gradually builds up ending up with the poor ould mother on two bottles of whiskey a day plus 128 grains of valium in "a home for the bewildered"! "Dear Nuala" becomes "ye ould bag" and "slurryhead", the vets bill skyrockets, terrible goings on between the eight maids a milking and the eleven lords a leaping, etc. Extremely funny! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland Date: 30 Mar 02 - 04:40 AM There was one done by Bill Barclay from Scotland, I don't know if anyone out there know's him. However I would like to get the words to his 12 days of Christmas (Drunk version) Tom |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Big Tim Date: 30 Mar 02 - 01:59 AM Anyone remember the comedy version (by Frank Skerrit?) in the 80s. Was quite a hit single, can't lay my hands on my copy at present. Based on the actuality of receiving all those gifts in the confined space of an ordinary house. Hilarious, especially after a couple of sherries on Christmas Day. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas From: Anahootz Date: 29 Mar 02 - 02:10 AM How 'bout the Canadian version, as done by Bob & Doug? They only get to #8 before they get in an argument aboot where the donuts come in, but from 8 it goes:
8 comic books
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 29 Mar 02 - 12:49 AM Oh, yeah. I call it the 12 Drinks of Christmas, even when I sing 22, and if you pretend to get drunker as the song progresses, it has a nice comic effect. Now, let's sit back and wait for the MADD threads to start. Seamus |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 29 Mar 02 - 12:46 AM I do my own version of this one. Here it is with some American drinks named. Please feel free to substitute your own. ^^ On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a glass of Long Island Iced Tea On the 2nd...2 pints of Guinness, and a pint... On the 3rd...3 Scotch and Sodas, 2 pints.. On the 4th...4 Gin & Tonics, 3 Scotch... On the 5th...5 Cuervo Gold!! 4 Gin... On the 6th...6 Blood Marys, 5 Cuervo... On the 7th...7 Dry martinis, 6 Bloody... On the 8th...8 Margaritas, 7 Dry... On the 9th...9 Manhattans, 8 Margaritas... On the 10th..10 Sex-on-the beaches,9 Manhattans... On the 11th..11 Screaming Orgasms, 10 Sex... on the 12th..12 Alka-Seltzer, 11 Screaming... I've also done this all the way up to 22 Days of Christmas with a different drink for each day, culminating with the Alka-Seltzer. Merry Christmas. Seamus |
Subject: drunk version of 12 Days Of Christmas... From: GUEST,Ross Guertin Date: 28 Mar 02 - 10:10 PM I heard this a long time ago, I think it was taped from a Scottish radio station a while back; it's the drunk version of the 12 Days of Christmas... I think the last the first day goes something like "A wee mickie and a half pint." It's real, it was a live performance though, I don't even know who it was by, though he was a Scot. Anyone have the words to this, or at least know what I mean? |
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