Holiday Fest 2024
I can’t believe all the years of The Fest when I didn't included this. Fortunately, that oversight was finally corrected. I used to like the comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly, and every holiday season he would love his inclusion of the characters’ version of “Deck Us All with Boston Charlie” – a song that the classical music station WFMT would usually play at Christmastime on their “Midnight Special” show. But when my pal Mark Evanier posted this video, it reminded me of it, and after slapping my head and thinking, “What was I doing??!” I’m so glad to include it here where it rightly belongs, as a wonderful, little-known holiday song.
Mark is one of the world’s great experts on Pogo – quite literally, he’s helped edit and put out eight seriously-impressive volumes of the collected Pogo strips. As for the song itself, he noted that “Every year around Christmas in his strip, his lovely characters would debate the correct lyrics to their favorite carol.” This particular video does a wonderful job setting the apparently-correct lyrics (according to one of the characters) set to panels from the strip.
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