Saturday, December 08, 2007

Songs For Christmas VIII



The Manic Street Preachers

so, for a change, here's one new song this year. The Manic Street Preachers have made this available to those on their mailing list...and so why not share it?

Manic Street Preachers -'Christmas Ghost.' mp3

I don't know much about the origin of the tune Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), but I have three versions of it, by U2 (who are the first band I heard do it), Death Cab For Cutie, and Scotland's own Arab Strap:

U2 -'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).' mp3

Death Cab For Cutie -'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).' mp3

Arab Strap -'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).' mp3

Enjoy. There will, naturally, be more tomorrow... : ))

Edx

4 comments:

myron said...

Ah, well, It's a song written by Phil Spector that originally was for the Ronettes, but he had Darlene Love record it instead. It comes from the Phil Spector Christmas album. I like Ben Gibbard's take better than U2's.

Ed said...

Cheers There!

So It Goes said...

It is on IWICBCE along with two other Darlene Love songs. Never heard these covers...fascinating.

Ed said...

sig -have been along and downloaded your Darlene Love special! utterly brilliant.

Ed