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 …
Mele Kalikimaka! Several items this Christmas morning: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs “Joy to the World” from “The Wonder of Christmas” album performed at Temple Square in Salt Lake City in 2006. I have posted two of these nearly every year for the past ten: “Yes Virginia”, the story of Francis P. Church’s New York …
Originally posted December 2017 Without further ado, we’ll listen as Michele Obama reads “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Clement Clark Moore’s wonderful 1823 poem. Moore didn’t acknowledge his authorship until he published a book of poems in 1844. There’s apparently an ongoing dispute among some literati and academics as to whether he was the actual …
Originally posted December 2015 That could only be Frank Sinatra accompanied by Nat King Cole singing “The Christmas Song,” written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells on what Tormé claimed was the hottest day of the year back in July of 1945. Here’s Mark Evanier relating his tale of Mr. Tormé at the Farmers’ Market …
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Originally posted December 2018 Tom Caufield performs an instrumental version of “Silent Night” on guitar. From Wikipedia: The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to …
Last posted in December 2015 I haven’t posted this in a while (not since 2009, to be exact), and I’d forgotten how cute the cartoon is. The animation was done by cartoonist Joshua Held back in 2002. The song was performed by The Drifters on their Christmas album, released in 1954. Here’s an interesting note …
Yesterday it was “city sidewalks” from “Silver Bells,” so let’s have another song about a city. Originally posted December 2019 Mary Chapin Carpenter sings “Christmas Time in the City,” from her “Come Darkness, Come Light” album. It was released in 2008, so I’ve been promoting it for 14 years and will probably do so for …