Annie Zaleski

you know, that it's basically you run into an ex at, you know, at a Christmas time and that you go through a whirlwind of emotions, you know, your anger, you're bitter, you're sad, you know, you're longing and that, you know, you're basically saying, nope, they are no longer worth my time.

You know, I'm done with you.

It's time to move forward.

But people have many different interpretations of that.

It's very, very interesting.

I've had some heated conversations with people about Last Christmas, which you would not expect for the way it sounds being such a synth pop classic.

Oh, the Eagles.

And so, and I, you know, this is, it's funny that the Eagles have so many good songs.

And I honestly think this is my, one of my favorite Eagle songs, to be very honest.

And I think it's, you know, I, for starters, I think it's the vocal performances, you know, I think obviously their harmonies are unparalleled.

And I think this one, especially this really highlights it.

This was actually written, though, by Charles Brown.

And so he is a very, very underrated musician, basically.

He had started playing in the 1940s with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, who actually had a hit with Merry Christmas Baby long before it became very well known.

And then he also fronted the Charles Brown Trio.

And so he but he basically, you know, recorded this song for King Records, which was a very, you know, infamous and very influential record label in Cincinnati.

And so he basically the Eagles found it and covered it.

And so it had been released decades before, and they put just a really wonderful kind of R&B, you know, rock, soft rock spin on it.

And like I said, I just, you know, I love this song.

You know, I mean, I think Joe Walsh and Don Felder, they were really, they're such powerful guitar players, and they were very, very subtle.