Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Burl Ives Controversy


The workout on Monday was another of Evil's gems. She put together a workout with all Christmas songs. It was nice to here the holiday song that were drowning out my heart beat, which was very elevated. Mary, Dede, Jim, Wendy, and Doug. But no Heidi, I guess I am going to have to talk to that girl about attendance. The rest of the class was filled with interlopers, they were all over the place. One of them even kicked poor Dolly off of her bike, shameful.

There was a big controversy during the ride as Evil has been giving out little gifts for giving the names of the people singing certain songs. She thought she would be generous with your pal, since I have not won yet, and give him a song from the last century. It was a Christmas song that no one in the class could identify. And when Evil said it was Burl Ives singing, the more mature people in the class called a foul and told her it was not Mr Ives. But headstrong Evil would not budge and kept saying it was him, which it was not. So I missed a shot at getting a gift because she cannot tell the difference between some knucklehead and Burl Ives. I'll win my prize one day before she get me, I just know it.

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Anonymous said...

All right Willie,
I admit it. I was wrong. After some extensive searching through all of my Christmas CD's and the internet, I found the true singer. On my itunes account it lists Burl Ives as the singer of "Jingle, Jingle, Jingle" taken from the original Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) soundtrack. But YOU were right and I was mistaken. It was actually Stan Francis who played Santa Claus and he was the one who sang "Jingle, Jingle Jingle." I have watched that movie hundreds of times with my Christmas crazed hubby and my kids. I figured it was a dead giveaway for the more mature riders. So I blew it. More prizes to come on Monday. I think I'm going to have to pass all the songs through an true identity screening so to keep things fair for you and Jim who seem to be somewhat musically handicapped in this contest :-) and have been whining relentlessly about using the original versions.

Happy Holidays,

Amy

DeDe, You left your prize behind on Monday. Mary has it and she'll give it to on Wednesday in class.

December 16, 2008 1:42 PM