{"id":60980,"date":"2014-12-15T05:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=60980"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:02:22","slug":"merry-crimmus-from-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=60980","title":{"rendered":"Merry “Crimmus” From Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs Elvis joked in his 1968 television special, “‘Crimmus’ is Southern for Christmas.” He recorded a lot of Christmas music, some traditional, some totally not, some religious, some secular, and here are some of my favorites.<\/p>\n

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“Merry Christmas Baby” – While most associations with Christmas are family-friendly, involving stockings and nutcrackers and gleaming ribbons, for Elvis here it’s about sex and the blues. There’s a wandering sexy piano, a bluesy slow pace, and grown-up Elvis, moaning repeatedly over how Christmas “sure did treat him nice.” Apparently, when they recorded it, Elvis never wanted the song to end. The jam went on forever. <\/p>\n

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