Three Minutes of Relentless Holiday Joy
The original version of this song is fine if you like background noise while shopping for wrapping paper. The Committed arrangement is what happens when someone realizes the song is actually about joy instead of just mentioning it repeatedly. Every vocal part has purpose. Nobody’s drowning anyone else out. It’s tight
Trey, Sed, and I recorded this in December 2021 across our usual three-studio setup. Alain T. Gervais did the arrangement we followed, Tanaka Muza mixed it without losing his mind, and Fortress handled the mastering and video. The song itself is from 1963, written by Edward Pola and George Wyle, back when “scary ghost stories” were apparently part of the Christmas experience. Different era.
Somehow this one made it to iTunes. You can stream it there if you want, or just watch it below and move on with your life. Either works.
The Unscripted Moment
That thing at 1:57 where we all moved the same way at the same time? Pure accident. Nobody called it, nobody rehearsed it. Just one of those things that happens when you’ve recorded enough songs together that you start thinking the same way. Or we got lucky. Hard to say.
Why This Version
The song’s from 1963, written by Edward Pola and George Wyle. It’s been covered approximately ten thousand times since then. The Committed arrangement stands out because it actually sounds like people enjoying themselves instead of fulfilling a contractual obligation to record a Christmas album. That’s what we were chasing.
