Day 5 of Christmas music: Home is the sailor, home from the sea Posted by linkmeister on 3 December 2019, 6:00 am “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. …
Christmas music, day four. Originally posted by linkmeister on 4 December 2014, 8:54 pm. Added to in 2023. This is a pretty plaintive request: “Please Come Home for Christmas.” It was written in 1960 by Charles Brown, who sings it here, and Gene Redd. It’s a seasonal favorite and has been covered by a whole …
Day 3 of Christmas music. Posted by linkmeister on 18 December 2015, 8:38 pm Remember how Perry Como’s ambition was to own a barber shop? Dean Martin was the son of a barber from Steubenville, Ohio. The drunken womanizer act he showed on TV and on the stage in Las Vegas was just that, an …
Day 2 of Christmas Music 2023. Posted by linkmeister on 1 December 2018, 8:00 am The Muppets sing “Christmas is Coming,” an English nursery rhyme from the 19th century. Research indicates it originated in Georgian or Victorian England.
Christmas music. I published a song a day during December on my blog for about ten years. Posted by linkmeister on 10 December 2017, 7:36 pm I’m starting to feel the Christmas Spirit now Mr. Andy Williams was too. Here’s “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” recorded for his first Christmas album “The …
In the center of the room are books, CDs and vinyl records in boxes awaiting more shelving. On the right is another pair of containers on the wall awaiting paint and shelves. The back wall will have more shelves added to fit paperbacks and CDs; I think the DVDs will go out to the living …
I didn’t have enough shelves built. There are three book series there: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe® (24 books); J.A. Jance’s J.P. Beaumont books (25 books); she’s got two more series of 19 and 16 books respectively, and they need to fit on there too; and J.D. Robb’s In Death series (55 books …
Cynthia A. Timberlake of Aiea, HI passed away peacefully at home on November 27, 2021. She was born on September 1, 1926 in Denver, CO. to Julius and Lillian Alford. After her father’s passing, her mother packed up the family and moved to Phoenix, AZ by way of Wickenburg, AZ where her Aunt Hazel lived. …
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Cynthia A. Timberlake of Aiea, Hi died peacefully at home on November 27, 2021. She had celebrated her 95th birthday just three months earlier. In her long life she had been a wife, a mother, and the Head Librarian at Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Cynthia was the older of two children. She was born in …
Now look. This is too much. Yesterday morning I noticed a few raised bumps on my arm which looked like acne. Then I discovered a whole patch of them on my shoulder and more at the top of my spine. I called my primary care doc’s office to see if he could see me anytime …