It’s not often I love a song on first hearing.
Yet I stumbled across Paul Simon’s “Getting Ready For Christmas Day” the other day and got hooked. Immediately. The conversation you’ll hear in the background is a “sample” of a 1941 sermon delivered by Rev. J.M. Gates. I’m quite sure it’s the only song in pop music that samples a sermon.
The video is especially inventive:
It’s Easter week.
And I’ve fallen hard for a song about Christmas performed by a Jew who describes himself as “not very religious.”
Isn’t God good?
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FYI-Linkin Park’s latest album has an amazing sermonette by MLK Jr. leading to a ridicolously good song. If you don’t have the album, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqRr0YSm7bw
I heard about Paul Simon’s newest album while listening to NPR on my way home from Raleigh this past Saturday (yes, I was on I-40West around Chapel Hill when torrential rain pummeled my car while to the southeast a tornado was touching down in downtown Raleigh). Any way, two music critics raved about Simon’s latest CD and they played this very song. They said they were glad that Simon was back on his game. And now, so are you!