Here’s Mary Chapin Carpenter singing “Bells are Ringing” from her “Come Darkness Come Light” album. It’s one of six original songs on this beautiful album. Even the songs not written by Carpenter and her producer/pianist/guitarist John Jennings are unusual fare for a Christmas album. I’ve been plugging this record since the day I bought it …
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.”
It will be bleaker still on January 20 unless there’s a reversal of thought among electors when they convene in ten days. That being the case, let’s listen to Dan Fogelberg sing “In the Bleak Midwinter” from his 1999 album “First Christmas Morning”.
Here is Michael Bublé singing “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” from his 2011 album “Michael Bublé Christmas.”
Here is Mannheim Steamroller playing “Pat A Pan” from its 1995 album, “Christmas in the Aire.” This was the third Christmas album released by the group. You might be surprised to learn that while it’s best known for the Christmas albums, there have been 22 or 23 other CDs as well. In fact, there were …
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Here are former Celtic Woman members Orla Fallon and Meav with David Archuleta and Mark Wills singing “Here We Come A-Wassailing,” from “Orla Fallon’s Celtic Christmas,” a 2010 television special.
Here’s Slim Whitman singing “White Christmas” from his 1980 album “Christmas with Slim Whitman”. Whitman’s career lasted from the late 1940s to the mid-1990s. He toured almost continuously through the 1990s and he released his last album in 2010 at the age of 87. He was more famous in the UK than in his home …
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Why else would Rudolph’s nose be red, really? Here are The Temptations with the best song on their 1970 album “The Temptations’ Christmas Card.”
Here’s Doris Day singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” . This is from her 1964 album, which was cleverly titled “The Doris Day Christmas Album.” One tends to forget that she was a big band singer before she was an actor. In fact, she has recorded some 650 songs in her long career, including a …
Here are Steve (Lawrence) & Eydie (Gorme) wishing you “Happy Holidays.” They married in 1957 and performed together until 2010 when Eydie retired for health reasons. She died three years later. Steve is still performing, although he announced in 2019 that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s but treatment was ameliorating the symptoms. …