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The Great Pretender by Freddie Mercury. UK 7" single picture sleeve from 1987. A great song but, as much as I like Freddie and Queen, this was not a great cover version in my opinion. Video was a bit cringe as well. Written and produced in 1955 by Samuel 'Buck' Ram for The Platters as a follow up to their Only You (and You Alone) hit single which Ram had also written. The Platters version is still my favourite and, by total coincidence, they were signed to Mercury Records at the time.
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Christmas Song by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, and Bing Crosby
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Lyrics
I'm dreaming tonight of a place I love Even more than I usually do And although I know it's a long road back I promise you
I'll be home for Christmas You can count on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents under the tree
Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams
I'll be home for Christmas (I'll be home for Christmas) You can count on me (you can count on me) Please have snow (have snow) and mistletoe (yeah) And presents under the tree (under the tree)
Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams If only in my dreams
In my dreams, my dreams My dreams
Context
I'll Be Home For Christmas (1943) - Kim Gannon (1900-1974), Walter Kent (1911-1994), Bing Crosby (1903-1977) [United States]
This Christmas song was performed during the middle of WW2, depicting a soldier singing out a letter to his wife and family back home while fighting in the war overseas. The song instantly became popular, especially among soldiers and civilians alike in the United States. The military would go on to endorse the song, saying it has raised the morale of deployed soldiers. Unsurprisingly, Great Britain would not feel the same. It was banned from broadcast for the idea that it could cause British soldiers to miss home and lower morale.
The song wasn't originally written with WW2 in mind. In fact the song wasn't originally a song either, but a poem written by Buck Ram to his mother in 1922 about WW1. One day Ram, Kent, and Gannon would go to meet up and discuss creation of the song following the eruption of the Second World War.
Great Pretender Ending
I feel confident in saying that Freddie Mercury would have been very, very happy to see this song interpreted with three wiggly cartoon cats singing the “oo-oo-oo-ooh” parts.
Alexandra Nazarova and Maxim Nikitin's short dance costumes at the 2016 Trophée de France. Their music was Only You by Buck Ram and Tutti Frutti by Little Richard.
They’re so darn cute!
(Source: zimbio.com and phantomkabocha.com)
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