{"id":14083,"date":"2014-12-08T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2019-01-01T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:57:58","slug":"christmas-album-review-that-holiday-feeling-by-steve-lawrence-and-eydie-gorme-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/christmas-album-review-that-holiday-feeling-by-steve-lawrence-and-eydie-gorme-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Album Review: <i>That Holiday Feeling!<\/i> by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0091N0FAM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0091N0FAM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cathatholidayfeeling.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0091N0FAM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0091N0FAM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This album<\/a> is the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Christmas album.  No, I&#8217;m not emphasizing it enough: this is the Steve Lawrence and EYDIE GORME Christmas album.  Too subtle?  It&#8217;s the Steve Lawrence and <b>Eydie Gorme<\/b> Christmas album.  Listen, bub, they&#8217;ve taken the <code>&lt;blink&gt;<\/code> tag away, so I don&#8217;t know how much more clearly I can make it: I&#8217;m an Eydie Gorme fan, and I was very happy to find this album this year.  Oh, her husband is okay, too.  But he&#8217;s not Eydie Gorme.<\/p>\n<p>The track list includes a number of common songs and a couple variations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas<\/li>\n<li>What Are You Doing New Year&#8217;s Eve \t<\/li>\n<li>Happy Holiday \t<\/li>\n<li>Sleigh Ride \t<\/li>\n<li>Winter Wonderland \t<\/li>\n<li>White Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>Let Me Be The First To Wish You Merry Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! \t<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas Song \t<\/li>\n<li>Santa Claus Is Comin&#8217; To Town \t<\/li>\n<li>That Holiday Feeling \t<\/li>\n<li>That Ol&#8217; Christmas Spirit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;What Are You Doing New Year&#8217;s Eve?&#8221; has become a jazz\/songbook standard of sorts and makes its appearance mixed into Christmas carols on the radio, but I don&#8217;t have many renditions of it on LP.  &#8220;Let Me Be The First To Wish You Merry Christmas&#8221; might be the only representation of that song I have available, and &#8220;That Ol&#8217; Christmas Spirit&#8221; is infrequent enough to be a treat when it appears.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, especially if you&#8217;re familiar with the LPs where Steve and Eydie appear together, the songs are duets in most cases and they switch off primary duties on the songs.  Their version of &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; is particularly fun, with Steve singing the lyrics and Eydie chanting &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; at the end of lines.  Sadly, their laughter at the end of the song is forced and a bit desperate and maniacal.<\/p>\n<p>Gorme&#8217;s voice is expressive and fun, and Lawrence&#8217;s is warm and engaging as well.  It&#8217;s definitely mood music; something worth listening to with a bit of focus.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, I only bought this album this year, but it&#8217;s already in the rotation here at Nogglestead as often as I can get away with without making my wife fear I have an unhealthy obsession with <em>Eydie Gorme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Album mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B0091N0FAM&#038;asins=B0091N0FAM&#038;linkId=KIFK7XUSUM2KYMDE&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album is the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Christmas album. No, I&#8217;m not emphasizing it enough: this is the Steve Lawrence and EYDIE GORME Christmas album. Too subtle? It&#8217;s the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Christmas album. Listen, bub, they&#8217;ve taken the &lt;blink&gt; tag away, so I don&#8217;t know how much more clearly I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-albums","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24075,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/24075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}