Two bits for your song, Mister?

Originally posted December 2015. I never knew much about Perry Como other than he was an old-timer on TV. He was a lot more interesting than I knew. It seems his biggest ambition growing up was to own his own barber shop, and in fact he was good enough that he actually did by the …

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Linda Ronstadt made a Christmas album

Originally posted December 2017. Here she sings “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” This is from her 2000 album “A Merry Little Christmas”. It should come as no surprise that it had the highest sales of all holiday albums released that year. It took her a long time to record a holiday album, and she chose …

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New Christmas Albums 2022

There are quite a few artists looking to tap into the annuity that is a Christmas album this year. Here’s a list of new albums already released or soon to be so. Surprisingly, at least to me, is that almost every album and artist has written at least one and often many originals to go …

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The Christmas Season approaches

This was first published here on December 1, 2019. “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 …

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