The Pinksters performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday, 12/20/2010.
Just two days earlier (12/18/2010), Thomas (Lauderdale), China (Forbes) and the gang brought their rollicking genre-bending orchestra to A Prairie Home Companion, performing Amado Mio and two Christmas songs, Snow Globe Christmas and We Three Kings. Great stuff. During this quality-packed Companion show, advises Randy Rendfeld, “listen also to Rich Dworsky’s piano medley of Christmas tunes. It’s an amazing compilation. Dworsky plays right after one of the Pink Martini sets.”
And from the deep, dark past, here’s an entire, lush, masterful, New Year’s Eve Pink Martini concert from 2008-9. “I love these Toast of the Nation concerts on New Year’s Eve,” writes Rendfeld. “They’re enough to make me hope I don’t get invited to a party. My favorite link on that page is to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s tribute to Cab Calloway. I’ve listened to that concert numerous times.”
And finally, here’s a tender, cocktailish version of “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” a grand Christmas tune from 1962 which was written as a plea for peace in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis and popularized by Bing Crosby. In it, China Forbes’ smooth, sensual, vox Americana crooning combines the pure innocence of the Virgin Mother with the kittenish flirtatiousness and serene, homespun sexuality of Donna Reed in It’s a Wonderful Life:
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