Today’s Christmas tune selection is one of my favorite songs all the way around, in any genre. I’ve heard probably close to a hundred different versions of it and though there are some horrible ones, it takes a lot for me not to listen all the way through.
This Christmas season, I’ve heard it used in at least three commercials for products I can’t name off the top of my head because I’m not listening to what the product spokesman is saying, I’m listening to the music, so I can’t remember what the products are. One of these commercials has taken the tune down the heavy metal highway and I just wish the spokesguy would shut up so I could crank it up to 11.
So here you go:
Today’s tunage is more of the bagpipes and fiddle instrumentation like I posted last week. The slow moving intro is the song Emmanuel and there is a surprise at around the three minute mark of some great Highland Drumming (though they didn’t mic it all that well).
Give it a listen, let me know what you think.
And since I started this edition of The Soundboard off a week late, there will one last Christmas song posted on Saturday for your Christmas Day pleasure.
Give it a listen, let me know what you think.
I’m a sucker for the pipes. Add a fiddle and I’m gone, baby. That’s a good rendition.
But by Crom I can’t properly load it into iTunes without knowing at least who performed it.
Heya Dun, I’m pretty sure that it was Bonnie Rideout on the fiddle. I hope that helps fill in that blank.