As I type this, my room is getting ever darker and cooler since the sun is going down a whole lot faster at around 4:30 pm and we're still a few weeks away from reaching the shortest day of the year. Maybe that's not the happiest thing to point out, but it also states that we are approaching the Holidays.
Still, the music can be quite heartwarming at this time of the year which is why we have a Yuletide season on "Kayo Kyoku Plus". For example, I learned about soulful Hiro Tsunoda's（つのだ☆ひろ）"Merry Christmas Baby" from Scott's "Holly Jolly X'masu" podcast several months ago, and I'm happy to say that after bookmarking it all the way back in the spring, it's still with us. YouTube (knock on wood) hasn't pulled it down.
The song was originally on Tsunoda's 1991 "Ballad X'mas" special album. I swear that hearing the groovy tones of the man himself (he also wrote and composed the song) along that urban contemporary arrangement of the time, this could easily be inserted into a GRP Records compilation album. At the time, the label was known mainly for its fusion and what would eventually be called smooth jazz. The images I get while listening to the oh-so-comfy "Merry Christmas Baby" are Norman Rockwell-like, but if everyone is dressed like a yuppie and drinking Chablis.
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