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by Dr. BLT Songs featured today: Dreamer by Supertramp White Christmas by Bing Crosby Even if you’re a superstar, you’d have to be a dreamer to think you could get the number one selling single of all times. But that’s exactly what Bing Crosby did with White Christmas. Even if you’re a superstar act like Supertramp, you’d be a Dreamer to think the song would ever take on a seasonal flavor. But that’s exactly what I did when I combined Bing Crosby’s White Christmas with Supertramp’s Dreamer. Does it work? I’ll let you be the judge: Sample Dr. BLT’s medley of:
What I can say for certain is that both of these songs work extraordinarily well. I'm dreaming of a white ChristmasWhite Christmas sets the Christmas mood and if it doesn’t bring out your Christmas spirit, then you’re either dead, or you’ve just walked right out of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, in the form of Ebeneezer himself. It’s timeless because the warm fuzzy feelings and sentimental longing it brings out each year is both universal and timeless. The song was penned by Irving Berlin in 1942. Being featured in a movie didn’t hurt the song’s popularity. It was featured in the movie Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby. It is the quintessential Christmas song. It first found its way into the hearts of WW2 soldiers, who dreamed of returning home for Christmas, and into the hearts of the families they had left behind. White Christmas was made for romantics, and for dreamers, the very type of dreamers Supertramp’s 70s dreamers anthem was meant to reach out too. I’ve never met a musician who was not a dreamer, so I’m almost certain Supertramp’s Dreamer, like Dire Strait’s Money for Nothing, was the sort of poetic justice involved in using the very words of the dreamer’s critic against the critic. Dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamerFor the person who worships practicality, dreaming is of no value, whatsoever. All dreamers, myself included, need pragmatic individuals to help us keep our feet on the ground as we’re reaching for the stars. But the pragmatic, practical-mindedness-worshipper is sadly, myopic. It’s true that one cannot physically put one’s hands in one’s head, but some of the greatest practical gains have come about through dreaming. Every invention starts with a dream. Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer;Most dreamers have been called “stupid” on more than one occasion. But we prefer the term “creative.” I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a life it is!"It appears the dreamer in this story has found himself in a predicament. We don’t know just what that predicament is, but we do know that the person putting the dreamer down doesn’t seem to be able to muster up much sympathy. For the pragmatic observer, the dreamer has made his/her own bed, and now must lie in it. It’s a bed of roses. It’s covered
in thorns, but, oh, the beauty of the roses, oh the soft feel of the pedals,
and oh, what a sweet aroma the roses emit. Maybe instead of sitting
by and criticizing the dreamer, the pragmatist could find a knife and cut
off those nasty thorns. When pragmatists and dreamers get together,
there are no limits to what they may accomplish.
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