I feel so famous! I guess this will have to count as my contribution to your holiday concert, since I’m pretty much the most non-musical person on earth.

By jamelah on 12.02.06 9:00 pm

rdl - ?

By rdl on 12.02.06 9:43 pm

sounds like it will be a fabulous concert!

i’m not a singer but i’ll see what i can do about a photo of some sort

By Sarah on 12.02.06 10:04 pm

i would totally participate but i don’t think i have the recording capabilities. so sad. sigh.

By ms. sizzle on 12.02.06 10:19 pm

I don’t have any instruments, but I’ll include photos!
I’ll even try to leave kittens out of it if I have too ;P

By Leesa on 12.02.06 10:19 pm

Yea! It will be so fun to hear it all performed. Now, for the most important question, who’s bringing the rum and eggnog?

By Churlita on 12.02.06 11:13 pm

No microphone. I have recordings on cassette but no way to get them on to the PC.

By lizardek on 12.03.06 2:23 am

Santa Baby, on the uke. Where do you, um, want it? On the rooftop? I see Erin is ALSO doing Santa Baby, is there going to have to be some sort of smackdown?

By pam on 12.03.06 8:36 am

was my song title not acceptable? hmmph.

By femme d'espoir on 12.03.06 8:59 am

[...] One of my favorite Christmas ornaments is just the simple glass ball ornament, like the ones pictured above. Of course now they come in all kinds of designer colors, but traditionally we only had red, green, silver, gold and blue. I loved the way these were so colorful and shiny, but so plain. I still love the way they reflect the lights on the tree and how great they look piled high in a basket or vase. After thinking about this for a while, and after talking with Jamelah about her story challenge contest, seeing Neil’s Christmahanukwanzaakah concert effort, reading my favorite crafty blogs and taking note of the current NPR holiday ornament contest, I decided to hold my own festive holiday contest — because who doesn’t love festive holiday contests? [...]

By the metafictional blues » First Annual lit-fuse Holiday Ornament Contest! on 12.03.06 10:22 am

Sign me up, too! It’ll be me and my kid…probably something in French. TBA…

By buzzgirl on 12.03.06 10:22 am

O, did I sign up? Okay. How about E-spouse playing the guitar and the kids singing “Daddy, don’t get drunk again this Christmas”?

By Edgy Mama on 12.03.06 10:24 am

Anybody claimed The “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” song yet (I’m lame, I don’t even know the title!).

If not, then MEMEMEMEMEEEE!!

By tiff on 12.03.06 10:36 am

I will send a special Christmas photo….

By V-Grrrl on 12.03.06 10:56 am

First, I’m not sure why that inserted such a large trackback … how rude of me.

Secondly, I love the poster girl.

Thirdly, I love this idea and think it will be a concert that will live on well beyond the holidays. Looking forward to the big day!

By Caryn on 12.03.06 11:02 am

I wanna do “Blue Christmas”

By Mo on 12.03.06 11:46 am

Aw this sounds like fun!

By Ari (Baking and Books) on 12.03.06 1:33 pm

Lizardek — I haven’t given up on you yet. All you need is a cord that goes from your tape player output to your computer input. Email me if you want help…

Pam — female mud-wrestling

Edgy — I will ban your song UNLESS you are doing something on it. Can’t you at least clap?

By Neil on 12.03.06 2:51 pm

Wow…I hope I can still get tickets for the show…

By Mr. Fabulous on 12.03.06 3:57 pm

Sounds festive.

If we decorate a tree before then, I’ll send a shot.

By 2nd Pearl Past the Post on 12.03.06 5:09 pm

Mud wrestling while playing Santa Baby. I think this requires an “Adult Situations” rating.

By pam on 12.03.06 7:27 pm

It’s not very often that a person who loves to sing, but who has the worst singing voice ever gets invited to belt one out, so I’m there. Now I just have to find a song that’s not too beloved so I can butcher it without hurting anyone’s feelings…

By patry on 12.03.06 8:24 pm

We’re doing a cover of “Sevivon”

By psychotoddler on 12.04.06 9:35 am

My daughter and I are in, but not sure what we’ll sing yet. We may write our very own Hannuukah song, since there are so few to choose from. Is that allowed? And of course…photos.

By Sarah on 12.04.06 10:24 am

Hi - would you like to know how lame I am? I am so lame that I left the WRONG URL for my blog site. That’s some kinda rocket-fueled lame right there.

Gah.

By tiff on 12.04.06 10:45 am

Sarah — Allowed? That would be the coolest thing! And then you should mrket it. We need more good Hanukkah songs!

By Neil on 12.04.06 10:45 am

Put me on the list for the Decoration Committee.

By Michelle on 12.04.06 11:51 am

Only for you, Neil…Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

By wendy on 12.04.06 9:03 pm

Ahoy there! Found you via the NaBloPoMo randomizer, and I’ve quite enjoyed reading!

While I’m here, I suppose I’ll sign up for your concert… if nobody’s claimed the Dreidl song, I’ll do that - as long as they can be a cappela (yes?)!

By Sheana on 12.05.06 9:06 am

Oh boy, I forgot about this. It means I need to find music and new reeds and officially come out of the closet as a complete band geek. Will let you know what I’ll be playing with in the next two days.

By Heather B. on 12.05.06 10:17 am

I wanna hear the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah played on kazoos and chainsaws, with vocals by winos and drowning cats.

By Akaky on 12.05.06 1:16 pm

[...] 4. So you know I’m having a contest, right? Don’t forget to write a story, because it’s going to be awesome. If you’ve ever had cookies I made, then you know what I mean, and if you haven’t, well, don’t cheat yourself. But the contest madness doesn’t end with me, oh no. Caryn is also having a contest, and it is also awesome. I have already made my contest entry, which means that you should get busy because you don’t want my industriousness to make you look bad. Or something. Also, Neil is having a Christmahanukwanzaakah holiday concert, for which I am the spokesmodel. So you should think about coming up with a musical number for that, because, um, you should. I’d do it, if the public unveiling of my complete lack of musical ability wouldn’t cause all of the internets to implode simultaneously. Besides, I’m the poster girl, so I have already performed my Christmahanukwanzaakah holiday concert duty. [...]

By jamelah.net » a few things about monday on 12.05.06 6:10 pm

Alright, the kids and I have decided on “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” since it’s known both as a Christmas and Hanukkah song. At least that’s what the cute Jewish girl playing acoustic guitar at the library story hour told us. We’ll buy our mic this weekend and get started.

My first choice was actually the silly and fun song about the Lord telling Noah to build an arky-arky out of hickory barky-barky, but I figured God drowning most of the Earth’s inhabitants in a fit of rage didn’t sound very Christmahanukwanzaakah-y.

By fringes on 12.05.06 8:34 pm

Ok! I’ve thought it over and it goes not matter if anyone’s PC explodes when they play it but am gonna do something. I thought Silent Nite but its taken… can I still do it? Plse!!

Fitèna

By Fitena on 12.05.06 11:34 pm

Come on, Neil, I’m the Mom, so I train and conduct.

Though I kind of like the idea of being banned…

By Edgy Mama on 12.06.06 7:51 am

Sorry Neil for replying so late. I wrote my own, but am having trouble recording it. I’ll try to have it to you soon.

By M.A. on 12.07.06 12:23 pm

M.A. — If you have problems, ask away. I’m sure someone knows the answer.

By Neil on 12.07.06 4:35 pm

Ok, I may have a Christmas song on the banjo for ya

By Leesa on 12.09.06 12:25 pm

Here’s a link to an original Priss Chanukah song.

http://pr1ss.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-hanukah.html

By Priss on 12.10.06 3:01 pm

Oooh this is so exciting! I’d love to do a Chanukah song. I was thinking of doing “Mi Y’Malel” but that’s sung in a round so I’d have to get some people to help me. Otherwise, uh…well, PT already took Sevivon, so, um…I guess I’ll have to get back to you. I’ll let you know within the next day or so.
-Hila

By Hila on 12.10.06 6:47 pm

I want to sing-”Rockin the Night Away”. Who knows who it will turn out.

By paintergirl on 12.11.06 11:39 am

I really don’t know how to do this. I’m still struggling with iTunes. I’m a little behind the times.
And Neil, I’m a singer. A really good singer.

By Roberta on 12.11.06 6:27 pm

Ooooooh. I wanna do the Adam Sandler “8 Crazy Nights” Channukah song. I promise to do the “PG” version as opposed to the “R”. Please please please?

CP

By CP on 12.11.06 10:10 pm

Hi Neil! I don’t know if I can get it together, but if so, it won’t be on the bassoon, but hopefully it will be with the kinderlach!

By Chana on 12.12.06 4:43 pm

Looks like the guys are doing a DIFFERENT song! It’s Dovid Melech Yisrael (the rock & roll version, what else) with Sim’in Sim’in Mazal Tov.

By Linda Freedman on 12.14.06 1:12 am

Oh, what the hell, I’m game for some public humiliation. Sign me up for “Let It Snow.”

By SJ on 12.14.06 10:54 pm

I’m sorry, I have to back out. Had a death in the family and everything here is haywire.

By Mo on 12.17.06 9:57 pm

Mo, I read. My condolences to you and your family.

By Neil on 12.17.06 10:15 pm

Thanks, Neil. I hope you do this next year and I can come play along. Right now I just don’t have the heart for it. Picking that damned Blue Christmas was like f*ing foreshadowing.

By Mo on 12.18.06 12:58 am

Is it too late to join in? I hate to miss any holiday party and it seems that there’s an appalling lack of Jews on your JewBlog. I just wheezed the only Chanukah song I know into my built-in mic (I still have a bad cold) and I think it may be the same one PsychoToddler is doing but I’ll send it to you and you can use it as you see fit.

By Danny on 12.19.06 9:14 am