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This is a remixed version of our holiday song, simplified a bit. The Piano and vocal version, as it was originally intended We posted this last year with additional orchestration, which was mostly was an attempt to compensate for some noise by adding more noise. It's coming back this year with a more intimate mix, this time remixed in Logic Express. Kelli sings and Jim plays piano. Pretty simple really, but it's been really hard to mix because of that.

Lyrics:
A Holiday Tune

Winter
everything white
everything still
and frozen

Christmas lights
twinkle in the night to passersby
headlights line the highways homeward
Streetlights meter out the traffic
blinking gold and red and green
as if to a holiday tune

All day long I had
Thoughts of you
I wonder how you are and if you're
warmer?

Now the corner bar once open
for the drunkards and the dreamers
Charlie finds a broom
thinks of an early conversation
and hums to himself a holiday tune

I won't speak of love
I won't speak of fairy tales
and I won't speak of things that
lovers do

Winter
everything white
everything still
and

An icy wind
sweeps down an empty street
Shoppers shuffle home with presents
in their hands
cold fingers in empty pockets
and on their lips
a holiday tune.

And for you a holiday tune.

Copyright 2006 kking & jbouchard

Hardware:
Kurzweil KME-61

Software:
Garageband, Logic Express
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what makes a good holiday tune &mdash 12/08/07 - 11:57:48 AM
I just heard a norwegian artist on TV talking about what should be present in a holiday tune to make it a good one.
She said, it's those kind of songs where you're allowed to sing about family joy and peace on earth and such. But there had to be an ingredient of familiar and near things like house work or other everyday aspects in it to make people associate with it.

And I think I agree. Your tune has those ingredients and voila - a true holiday tune:)

The sparse arrangement supports this and could sound like you two are in the same room. Kelli probably leaning against the piano, sipping to her mulled wine between the verses... Beautiful piano playing Jim - and lovely timbres in your voice Kelli.

Thank you.



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A Holiday Tune &mdash 12/08/07 - 01:22:43 PM
everything is sweet and dreamy ..a superb track
and awesome from the fritters again !
simple ...right ..but just cool !!

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Beautiful vocal &mdash 12/08/07 - 11:08:15 PM
performance on this. I've been listening to a lot of Christmas music recently (we have a local station that plays non-stop Christmas tunes during the season and we tune our car radio to it whenever the whole family is in the car - a kind of tradition) and not many of the songs make me pause and really listen. This did. Sweet stuff. Peace.

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Still great &mdash 12/09/07 - 12:19:38 AM
Excellent singing Kelli (as usual) and wonderfully understated piano and production Jim.
Neil

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A very &mdash 12/13/07 - 06:06:28 PM
nicely performed melodic commentary. I love the emptiness of this and the lovely clarity in your voice. I see you gazing from a window onto a wintry scene as you ponder dreamily on it all, regards M

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Beautiful... &mdash 12/13/07 - 08:33:42 PM
...simply beautiful.

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Thanks, guys.... &mdash 12/18/07 - 07:56:59 PM
I still love this...

Ed

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blue christmas &mdash 02/08/08 - 11:35:11 AM
I always think of Christmas as one of the saddest times of the year. This fits in so nicely with some of my favorite melancholy Xmas tunes, like Joni Mitchell's The River, The Pretenders 2000 miles and the unbelievably depressing Christmas Time Is Here from the Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Brown Christmas Sound track. Kudos.

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