Reviving this ol' chestnut. Here's what I typed about it back in the balmy, carefree days of 2005:
Recorded for a television special on September 11, 1977 -- just a few months prior to Bing's death -- the duet paired the old, martini-swiggin' coot with a somewhat emaciated Bowie with an awkward quasi-mullet for a surprisingly melifluous stroll through a Christmas favorite. I also enjoy the somewhat incongruous fact that at the time of the recording of this cherished chestnut, Bowie was allegedly crawling out from under a pre-occupation with heroin, cocaine, the occult and -- some suggest -- Nazism. I woner how that would've flown with ol' Bing.
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