Here’s an e-book edition of Clement Moore’s Twas the Night Before Christmas, with wonderful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. I recommend you read it while listening to Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians as they perform it, recorded in 1942. It’s available on MP3 as part of a collection of Waring’s Christmas radio broadcasts. Waring was …
Who’s got a tradition for Christmas morning food while opening presents? With us it’s cinnamon rolls and pigs-in-a-blanket.
Yes indeed, and here it is. “Christmas Must Be Tonight,” from their 1977 album “Islands”. Huh. I don’t have that album even in vinyl. How can this be?
The things you learn from Wikipedia. For example, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is entirely self-funding through album sales. It’s been around since 1847, and its weekly radio show has been on for 83 years. Its broadcasts have won Peabody and Emmy awards. They sing pretty well too.