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Topic: If we Make it.... December |
Larry R
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Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 23 Aug 2001 9:55 am |
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I heard Alan Jackson last year on the radio doing Merles song, "IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER". Where can I go to get this compilation of Christmas songs by various artists? It had some great steel guitar on it. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 23 Aug 2001 10:21 am
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Are you saying they're considering "If We Make It Through December" a Christmas song? The only connection to Christmas I can see in that song is that December is in the title.  |
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BJ Bailey
From:
Jackson Ms,Hinds
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Posted 23 Aug 2001 12:13 pm
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If we make it through November.There that should fix that small problem 
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BJ Bailey
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 23 Aug 2001 2:31 pm
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"Daddy can't afford no Christmas here."
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GO TITANS GO!!!
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 24 Aug 2001 6:22 am
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What a bunch of comedians. Oh well, I enjoyed the laugh.
I think I remember the DJ saying that the song was on a Christmas CD with other country
artists. |
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Neil Hilton
From:
Lexington, Kentucky
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Posted 24 Aug 2001 9:56 am
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| Larry - it may also be on a compilation, but is indeed on Jackson's "Honky-Tonk Christmas" cd from back around 93-94. You're right too, "make it thru december" is one of my favorite Hag songs, and Alan did do a very good cut of it, fits him very well. |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 24 Aug 2001 12:17 pm
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| I think the message of the song was "hope and a new beginning"..... Isn't that what the message of Christmas is about? |
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Ray Jenkins
From:
Gold Canyon Az. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Aug 2001 12:47 pm
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Here in Texas, we sing "If We Make It Through The Summer." It's 102
in the shade outside right now, and I'm looking for some shade.
Herb it's 110 here in Apache Junction today.
It's nice though it's a dry heat!!! RIGHT
Ray
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Steeling is still legal in Arizona |
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Fred Murphy
From:
Indianapolis, In. USA
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Posted 24 Aug 2001 5:45 pm
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| I read somewhere recently that Merle wrote this song in response to something that Roy Nichols said to him when Merle asked him if his woman was going to last the year, and he replied if we make it through December we'll be fine, and he went home and wrote the song. |
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2001 6:46 pm
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I think Fred has it right. The tune wasn't orginally intended as a "Christmas" song, but it's on AJ's album and two of Merle's holiday albums. In the liner notes, Alan said he worked on his own arrangement but wound up with pretty much a cover of the original.
Now, you have to understand from the title that Alan's "Honky Tonk Christmas" isn't going to give you the warm holiday fuzzies. Still, if you're open to the idea that Christmas is painful for some and if you like great music and plenty of Paul Franklin's steel, then it's a great CD.
"Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" brings back some not so fine childhood memories. I'm please to say my children have never known that particular feeling. My wife's grandmother likes AJ, but not that song. I tell my wife that perhaps she never had to wish for that on Christmas. I have.
Anyway, it's packed with great country music. You can mix it in with George Strait, Clint Black and Vince Gill Christmas CD's to give you that good holiday feeling.
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HagFan
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Larry R
From:
Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 30 Aug 2001 6:05 am
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Good post Ron.
Thanks |
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