Day 11, Christmas music Our tree is up, although not yet decorated Posted by linkmeister on 12 December 2016, 9:01 pm We’ve established it’s Christmastime, so now it’s time to put up a tree. To celebrate trees let’s hear Nat King Cole sing “O Tannenbaum” in German. As far as I can tell his accent …
Originally posted December 2015 That could only be Frank Sinatra accompanied by Nat King Cole singing “The Christmas Song,” written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells on what Tormé claimed was the hottest day of the year back in July of 1945. Here’s Mark Evanier relating his tale of Mr. Tormé at the Farmers’ Market …
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Originally posted December 2016. Let’s hear Nat King Cole sing O Tannenbaum in German. As far as I can tell his accent is pretty good. It’s from “The Christmas Song”, first released in 1960 as “The Magic of Christmas.” The song didn’t start out as a Christmas song when first written in 1824; as the …
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To celebrate trees, then, let’s hear Nat King Cole sing O Tannenbaum in German. As far as I can tell his accent is pretty good. It’s from “The Christmas Song”, first released in 1960 as “The Magic of Christmas.”
That could only be Frank Sinatra accompanied by Nat King Cole singing “The Christmas Song,” written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells on what Tormé claimed was the hottest day of the year back in July of 1945. Here’s Mark Evanier relating his tale of Mr. Tormé at the Farmers’ Market in LA a long …