I just had to have a song about Xmas trees. I took a look at Paverotti and pals doing Oh Tannenbaum and then decided to go for something much wackier. It's Fred Schneider from the B52s with his side project The Superions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaCYIKwavY
The Xmas tree, that great Yuletide icon, has actually not been around that long in the Anglophone world. When Queen Victoria was a little girl it was something outré for posh people. Then of course she married Prince Albert, he imported the Teutoni tradition and it spread like a forest fire both in Britain and actoss the Atlantic.
A few more songs
The Magnetic Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDyGaqx4PA
Holly Golightly, (her tree is burning down and she sounds like Lonnie Donnegan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acf7rqpICmQ
Canadian singer-somgwriter, T. Nile,has a song called The Ballad of Jack Pine which I can't find on Youtube. So here's another of her songs, also about trees. She's rather good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqdIWockc8
The Superions are a seriously wacky bunch. No Rock Lobsters perhaps but there's a more than a soupcon of that B52 craziness. Ever wondered what Je t'aime, moi no plus would sound like if redone as a sleazy, low-rent Xmas song? Now you know!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYr8RNzbHVw
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