It’s Cliff-mas…🥁🎄😉🎄🥁

It’s Cliff-mas…🥁🎄😉🎄🥁

Dec 19, 2024

As I’m about to finish off my ‘LIVE’ lessons for the year here in the studio I wanted to make sure and wish ALL Channel Members, AND Supporters everywhere a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year (..just don’t let those drums remain too peaceful…keep practicing over the holidays…!)

Attached is a recording of a radio broadcast from a concert I was involved in, in 1984…(YES THAT’s 40 Years AGO…!).

In the 80’s I was privileged to play all over the UK with one of the top Gospel artists at the time, Dave Pope and we also worked regularly with Chris Eaton who was (and still is) a singer/ songwriter from the W.Midlands. Chris wrote a lot of songs for Cliff Richard which appear on several of his albums from back then and he wrote this arrangement of the well known carol ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’. The original had the London Symphony Orchestra playing on it (…and afterwards, Chris gave me the drums part…which is in the loft somewhere…!) it went to number 11 in the charts…🤩

This is our LIVE version (minus the LSO…but with Chris himself taking the lead vocal ) from Dudley Town Hall accompanied by 1000 sets of car keys providing the sleigh bells…! I hope you enjoy !

Happy Christmas everyone…!

Alan 🎄

https://youtu.be/aS0eBWq-AWE?si=fBW2Zrcyk2TNgNJ-

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