Originally posted December 2017. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leslie Odom Jr., singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from his “Simply Christmas” album. If you’re wondering who he is, he won a Tony as the first Aaron Burr in Hamilton. The song has had several iterations of its lyrics since it was written for the …
The origin of “Carol of the Bells” was known before but it has recently gotten a lot of attention, no doubt partly due to the invasion of Ukraine by its larger neighbor. The music was written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych and the lyrics were written by a Ukrainian-American named Peter Wilhousky. From Wikipedia: The …
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 …
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 …
I first posted this December 3, 2012. I don’t know if I can find 22 straight days of Christmas music that I haven’t already posted videos of in previous years, but I’ll try. Here’s JT to start the season off: from his 2006 At Christmas album.
This is a repost from December 2016. Way back when John Denver and Jim Henson were both alive, they did a TV show together. Here are Kermit and The Muppets performing “A Christmas Wish,” from the soundtrack of that 1979 Christmas special featuring John Denver and The Muppets.
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 …
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 …
The paper took it upon itself to find what its reporters think are the best movies currently available on various streaming services. As a public service, here are the links. Note: these are not Christmas movies. Amazon Prime, Disney +, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix
I finally got around to watching what I thought was the next film in the MCU’s chronological order I’ve been trying to stick to, but I screwed up. I watched “Avengers: Endgame” last night, without watching “Ant-Man,” “Doctor Strange,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” I turned on “Endgame” …