"What? So soon????"--Santa Lee, in shock
Here's a MY(P)WHAE original: Christmas Is Coming Again, Ha-Haaa!! by yours truly.
Well, maybe not so original. It does follow the Jerry Samuels classic more than a little, but it's a parody, so this is entirely appropriate. I'm only the 100th person or so to ape that great novelty record (They're Coming to....).
In order to multi-track this one, I had to burn the percussion track to CD and listen to it on headphones while I read the text over it. Then I lined up the two tracks (vocal and beat) on MAGIX, one atop the other.
I made some more track additions along the way, saving each take as a single file, thus enabling me to overdub again. At one point, I cried out (to no one in particular), "Stop me before I overdub again!!" The beauty of layering sound in digital is that no audio loss happens. It's just amazing.
And now....
Christmas Is Coming Again, Ha-Haaa!! (Samuels-Hartsfeld), Lee Hartsfeld, HP Pavilion (2006).
Good grief--the big day's just around the corner, isn't it? Sure wouldn't know it from the weather around our parts. I should take some photos of the lack of snow....
Rosie, dreaming of a catnip Christmas.
Lee
2 comments:
Nice try, Lee, but don't give up your day job!
BTW, does this recording make you Napoleon XV?
To the contrary, Perdido, this music is Lee's day job. I'm willing to bet this gem will have been shared with a million downloaders by midnight tonight--and that it will become a classic in no time at all. Thanks, Lee, for once again making me laugh so hard I needed a cannister of oxygen.
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