I was just going back through my pornocalypse posts and was reminded of the news last Christmas that Disney had Bowdlerized "gay apparel" out of the popular holiday carol. Didn't get any notice or comment on my blog at the time, and I can't remember if I posted it here, although surely I must have. Anyway, yeah:
Today's video has two English folk songs that are traditionally associated with Christmas-time: "Down In Yon Forest" and "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day". I talk about the history of the songs, and play my versions of them.
A Tudor Christmas Carol
As I outrode this enderes night.
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
[The better known 'Coventry Carol', "lully lulla, thou little tiny child" comes from the same source.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo
Christmas Cheer - from The Dancing Master, Henry Playford, 1703
Chestnut - from The English Dancing Master, John Playford, 1651
Comfort and Joy - named after the chorus of the ballad 'On Christmas Day', first printed c1700/1, and better known to us now as the carol 'God rest you merry gentlemen'.
Did you know that the popular Christmas carol "Ding Dong! Merrily on High" is based on a French renaissance dance tune? In today's video, I take a look at the origins of this carol and play two versions of it.
Ebenezer And The Invisible World Review (PlayStation 4)
For this Ebenezer And The Invisible World Review, we play a story-rich 2D Metroidvania adventure with breathtaking hand-drawn art, playing as miser-turned-hero Ebenezer Scrooge in a reimagined Victorian-fantasy based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel.