Binge-watched That's Entertainment compilations on Turner Classic Movies to ring out the rotten old year and ring in the new year. Complained on this blog about how 2017 was "wretched," but horrendous 2020 made 2017 look fabulous! Happily, 2021 has arrived - and not a moment too soon. Hallelujah! We are thankful that there are no empty chairs at our kitchen table here on January 1. We're lucky. . . very lucky!
Is the gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog at this moment recovering from 48 hours of hard partying - tripping the lights fantastic as Osgood Fielding did? We wish!
Revelry, fun, time with friends, even a faint snapshot from a Grateful Dead New Year's concert from a long time ago, way back when this blogger was actually a young person, well, all sound pretty fantastic right now!
One excellent way to ring out the old year is to watch the great Jack Benny's very funny New Year's Eve show from 1961.
The Mr. Bean New Year's show is a hoot as well.
Have posted in past years about unconventional New Year's Eve tunes, a time-honored way to ring out the old year and ring in the new one. We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are big fans of Otis Redding and Carla Thomas' Stax Records cover of ace blues guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Lowell Fulson's classic Tramp (which Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin co-wrote) and it turns out Otis and Carla also recorded an excellent song for New Year's.
Among numerous worthy renditions of "What Are You Doing For New Year's Eve?" the duet of Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is a goody.
The doo-wop version of this standard by the melodious Orioles is another goody.
Here is the Lightnin' Hopkins "Happy New Year" song, waxed for Decca Records in 1953.
Ding Dong Ding Dong, George Harrison's "ring out the old, ring in the new" tune, always sounds terrific. Those Silver Beatles could really write tunes, before and after their Fab 4 heydey!
Right now, I'm pondering the very good fortune to have made it through 2020, a year in which COVID-19 killed people right and left. Wishing all readers of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog have a wonderful and safe new year.
Good riddance, 2020!
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