{"id":1338,"date":"2009-12-22T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T12:29:12","slug":"lou-rawls-good-time-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"lou rawls : good time christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/image\/R-587186-1260826592.jpeg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>this is, quite simply my favourite christmas song <u>ever<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>throughout the way too short (can someone out there make a 10 minute edit of this as opposed to extending some supposedly ironic 80s tv commercial jam) 2 minutes 11 seconds of perfection the velvet smoothness of <strong>lou rawls<\/strong> who is clearly at the top of his game are matched brilliantly by producer <strong>david axelrod <\/strong>, and the results are a superb combination of soulful 60s grooves and happy seasonal joy.<\/p>\n<p>the song was originally released back in 1967 on the album, <font color=\"#008080\">merry christmas ho! ho! ho! <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">and then for those of us who have tried to play catch up in recent years, included on a compilation that put the album together alongside a few extra tracks that lou recorded later in his career for <u>blue note<\/u>&#160; that came out a couple of years ago, <font color=\"#008080\">merry christmas, baby<\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>while the world falls apart in global chaos (nature and manmade) and overbearing cynicism, just rejoice in a song that oozes upbeat happiness and festive emotion.<\/p>\n<p><u>mp3<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/good_time_christmas.mp3\">lou rawls : good time christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is, quite simply my favourite christmas song ever. throughout the way too short (can someone out there make a 10 minute edit of this as opposed to extending some supposedly ironic 80s tv commercial jam) 2 minutes 11 seconds of perfection the velvet smoothness of lou rawls who is clearly at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}