There may be some slight revisions here, but ESPN reports these are the bowl matchups between now and January 13: The college football bowl schedule was set on Sunday. The College Football Playoff National Championship will be played in New Orleans (Jan. 13, 8 p.m. ET), while the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl …
Here’s “Deck the Halls” performed by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers and released on the John Rutter Christmas Album in 2002. Rutter is an English composer and arranger, particularly noted for his original carol compositions. His work is generally written for choirs; he founded the Cambridge Singers choir in 1981. The melody was written …
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town” was written in 1934 by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie and first performed on Eddie Cantor’s radio show. This version is by the Supremes; it appeared on their 1965 “Merry Christmas” album. The song was an immediate hit in 1934. There were orders for 500,000 copies of sheet …
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I suspect Don Henley means a girl rather than a collie. I was surprised to find the quintessential Southern California rock band had actually released a Christmas song (never an album, though). The Eagles released this as a single in 1978. The song was first released in 1960 by blues singer and pianist Charles Brown, …
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” sung by Idina Menzel. Do I need to explain who Menzel is? It’s from her 2019 Christmas: A Season of Love album. The song was written specifically for The Andy Williams Show’s Christmas episode in 1963 by its vocal director George Wyle and co-composer Edward Pyle. That …
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” made its first appearance in the 1944 film “Meet Me in St. Louis.” Hugh Martin composed it and Ralph Blane wrote the lyrics. Some of those lyrics were changed during filming when Garland, Tom Drake (her love interest in the film) and, perhaps most importantly, Director Vincente Minelli considered …
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas” was written in 1942 or 1943 by lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent. An additional writing credit was given to The Platters’ Buck Ram after a lawsuit. Bing Crosby recorded and released it in 1943 and the US War Department also released a live version Crosby recorded on the …
“Christmastime is Here” is a relatively recent Christmas song. It was written by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson for the original “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965. This version is sung by Marc Martel and appears on his 2018 album The Christmas Collection.
“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” was written in 1951 by Meredith Wilson, whose name you might recognize as the man who wrote the book and composed the lyrics and music for The Music Man. He also wrote the words and music for The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which I remember seeing as a …