Re: Looking for info for a Twelve Days of Christmas related recording

"Tigerpaw28" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello. I'm looking for info on a recording I used to hear every
> year(For some reason once they were taken over by ClearChannel they
> stopped playing it) at Christmas time on my local Oldies station, WMJI
> 105.7 in Cleveland, 0H. The recording is of a guy with either an Irish
> or British accent writing letters to his "true love" telling her of
> the chaos that ensues after she literally sends him the twelve gifts
> of Christmas. With each letter the birds and people being sent become
> more overwhelming, the narrator's mother consumes growing amounts of
> first alcohol, then lithium before she is finally put in "a home for
> the mentally bewildered." He signs each letter "Yours,
> Governors(pronounced GOOV-NURS)". The only bright spot is when he
> thanks her for her generosity in sending the five gold rings. In the
> last letter he ask her who the hell does she think she is and tells
> her he is a broken man. The entire recording is spoken, it is not a
> song.

"Christmas Countdown" by Frank Kelly. It was a hit in Ireland in 1983.

My favourite line is where he starts one letter with, "Listen, slurry-head!"

HTH


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Nigel Stapley

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