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Smokey has sung lead on this tune with The Miracles and you have heard a few versions of the Temptations take on this classic.
But this has got to be the smoothest Motown rendition of this classic holiday tune yet! With Smokey AND Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin and the rest of the Temptations gang giving it there all — well how can you go wrong?!
This audio (provided in case the YouTube cClip vanishes) is from my latest Motown Holiday Collection (yes, I had to purchase yet another one but I had a good reason). And of course it is the audio from the classic 1987 Motown Merry Christmas TV Special of 1987.
I feel very fortunate to have found this clip on YouTube, but does anyone know if this show is available on DVD please?
Watching this clip makes you feel all warm and fuzzy doesn’t it?
Musically Yours,
Note: This post was scheduled for yesterday 12/21/09 @ 7am and for some reason when I logged on today I see “Schedule Missed” in red letters. I don’t know what happened but I am so sorry for the delay.
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Even though this song is almost 50 years old it is new to me and a great way to pay tribute to the year of Motown50 in it’s final few holiday season weeks.
It is a simply marvelous LIVE, soulful rendition of “The Christmas Song” by Marvin Gaye that I discovered on YouTube! I notice that some of the holiday tunes that I posted about last year from YouTube are now gone so please click on the link and enjoy this song while you can.
I really don’t have much more to say other than this is a great addition to my Motown holiday music collection and this is why I love YouTube.
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A week ago today I shared with you the first rendition of the Temptations performing “The Christmas Song” featuring one of the few leads by Otis Williams.
Well today I would like to share with you the second version the group released that appeared on their second holiday collection a decade later in 1980.
This LP is truly a classic. Other songs are repeated from the first Holiday LP, but the greatest of any holiday song that the Temptations EVER sang (IMHO) is on this set — “Silent Night.” Now I loved Eddie Kendricks’ lead on the 1970 “Silent Night”, but the 1980 version is a classic that will be listened to for ages to come!
But back to “The Christmas Song” version 2 – If you have been following OSML then you are aware that the Temptations often made second versions of their songs and always bested themselves. True to course this version has better vocals, better production values and just is a much better listen than the first!
This is a classic from A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. Along with the Carpenters Holiday collection, Nat King Cole’s Holiday collection and a handful of others, this is probably in the top 10 of Holiday offerings of all time! There is not a bad song in the bunch and, of course, anything [...]
Composed by the great Steve Cropper, Carla herself and Vincent Trauth, “Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas” charted #23 US. It should have charted higher, but it was the times I guess. It is still a Holiday Classic in my book. Known by many as the “Queen of Memphis Soul, Carla would have been only 20 or [...]
This beautiful Holiday ballad is sung by the musical sisters — The Emotions. You can read up on them at their official website here . Thanks for stopping by. Be safe.
Irving Berlin wrote this song in 1940. It won the 1942 Academy Award for “Best Original Song”. It has a helluva history that you can read about here. Enjoy the music.
