Earlier today, I ran across this nice story in The Washington Post about the 1977 "Little Drummer Boy" duet with David Bowie and Bing Crosby. Since then, the tune hasn't left my head. I finally had to turn on some Internet radio before I lost my mind.

It turns out that Bowie didn't even want to sing the song, so the Christmas special's producers found a piano and hammered out from scratch the "Peace on Earth" counterpoint tune for the Thin White Duke. The rest is history. Check out the video here.