I pride myself on the Calendar research I do here at the new Blagg Acres, but I must admit I'm confused by this one.
There was a Harmony Sisters from the mid-1930s, a Finnish vocal group who were very popular all over Europe at the time, but who don't seem - as far as I can see - to have recorded any Christmas swing records.
Similarly, there is a later band of the same name who formed in 2002 to tour with the Bill Blanchard Little Big Band but who don't seem - visually at least - to be the same group here.
The blurb from this suggests that these girls are singing 'lost songs from World War II' (not to be confused with the one we're planning for next year!) found after an 'estate sale' and I'm assuming the ladies concerned are the ones pictured on the YouTube page. But I'm just suspicious of the whole thing. Have we really only just 'discovered' songs from the 1940s? This seems highly unlikely. If they are new songs done in a 40s swing-style then I'm happy enough about it, but I just want to know.
I'm sensing some sort of trap here.
I think given the song's title and the ladies concerned, they are thinking I'm going to channel my 1980s Christmas-party inner Gregg Wallace and say something totally inappropriate about attractive women and mistletoe. But I'm too smart to get myself cancelled like that. Far too smart.
Anyway, you enjoy the excellent close harmonies and toe-tapping swing while I find my hair net. This Roast Guinea Fowl and Truffle won't sample itself, you know.
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