Have Yourself a Glam Christmas

Denro notes that in England it’s been a holiday tradition in recent decades to get snockered and sing-scream “Merry Xmas Everybody”, by the 70’s British Glam Rock band Slade. You’ll find it in part 8 of this video, the finale to the stellar Christmas 1973 edition of Sir Jimmy Savile’s “Top of the Pops”, posted on YouTube by one of its best members, NYrainbow.

The new “Doctor Who” series features a Christmas episode every year, including one that will premiere Christmas night…

… and a couple of the past installments of Who have included bits of “Merry Xmas Everybody”.

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The Head Monkees

One of my most memorable movie-going experiences was in the early 80’s, when I saw “Head” for the first time. Denro and I were at a little art cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called Off The Wall, that later succumbed to the ascendancy of VHS. “Head” is the cult favorite with the pre-fab four, The Monkees, that picked up where their TV show left off. This clip from the movie has the superb “Porpoise Song”, by Goffin-King.


The Monkees – Porpoise Song (From Head)

Robbie Leff pointed out this 1968 interview with The Monkees talking about “Head”, in surprisingly good quality that looks as though it could have been recorded yesterday.

Annie Little’s Winter Wonderland

It’s already been a year since model/actress/singer-songwriter Annie Little created a sensation with her Amazon Kindle video, featuring her adorably fetching song, “Fly Me Away”. Since then, Annie and her partner Marcus Ashley have made more commercials and songs, she’s appeared on “Desperate Housewives”, and she’ll be on an upcoming episode of “The Mentalist”.

Annie’s back with a new Kindle holiday music video, this time for England. You can watch it, and most of her other commercials, at this link.

http://www.youtube.com/user/LittleandAshley

One video that’s missing is Annie in a commercial for T.J. Maxx and Marshalls. People were talking about it on Annie’s Facebook page, but it was nowhere to be found, so I uploaded it:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Annie-Little/173708637582

There’s speculation that one of the shoppers with Annie is Elliott Yamin, from “American Idol”, a series that I admit to never having seen. Maybe Annie will confirm. She says on Facebook that the commercial was shot at 4 in the morning, when the mall was deserted. She didn’t say what mall, but the closest one to the TJX headquarters, half a mile from where I work, is The Natick Collection.