To All a Blue Xmas
erry Christmas ... I hope you have a white one, but for me, it's blue." That's the opening line of the jazz number "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)," by Miles Davis and Bob Dorough. Dorough's distinctive, honeyed voice continues with its bebop ease over the tumbling of Davis's instrumentation: "Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue / Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime you see right through / all the waste, all the sham, all the haste / and plain old bad taste." It's a striking and unusual Christmas song, and one that struck a chord for Canadian filmm...
Source: cityweekly.net