{"id":24657,"date":"2016-09-16T03:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=24657"},"modified":"2016-09-16T04:01:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T10:01:36","slug":"christmas-songs-dont-know-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/christmas-songs-dont-know-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Songs You Don&#8217;t Know that You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dj-christmas-function-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas songs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dj-christmas-function-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dj-christmas-function-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dj-christmas-function-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> songs are so familiar we can pick out a tune in the middle of July. Other <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> songs have titles so obscure or from another language that we couldn&#8217;t pick them out if they were handed to us. <\/p>\n<p>The brand new episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/merry-podcast\/\"><strong>Merry Podcast<\/strong><\/a> explores this in depth with an hour long exploration into great music you maybe have heard but can&#8217;t talk about. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good example: last <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> hot vocal super group Pentatonix released the following single of a famously old <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tune brilliantly performed&#8230;that almost no one can name: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jt3oAyK_IG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is great about <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music like this is that the songs are so very old and many have a back story of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> that just need to be heard. (That song, by the way, is called Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy). <\/p>\n<p>Also of note is that some of the new\/old songs of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> now coming out on modern recordings were NOT originally about <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> at all&#8230;but they are now. <\/p>\n<p>Case in point is the song featured in the below video titled <em>Suo Gan<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The tune is actually a centuries old Welsh lullaby and it was featured in a movie by Steven Spielberg called <em>Empire of the Sun<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The movie tells the story of a rich English kid thrust into a prison camp during World War II when his parents were stationed in Shanghai. The kid is played by a very young Christian Bale and in the movie he sings <em>Suo Gan<\/em> in this famous scene: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyf059psVew\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song &#8212; not the Christian Bale lip sync version &#8212; is now appearing on albums as a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song<\/em>. How did <em>that<\/em> happen?<\/p>\n<p>This is the stuff we&#8217;re exploring on this nearly hour-long version of the Merry Podcast available <a href=\"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/forum\/forums\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>exclusively now for premiere members of My Merry Christmas<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Christmas songs are so familiar we can pick out a tune in the middle of July. Other Christmas songs have titles so obscure or from another language that we couldn&#8217;t pick them out if they were handed to us. 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