Music makes the holidays and I'm a fan of all of it from the sacred to the commercial. I'll kick it off with one from "the ridiculous to the sublime" category.
I love this character so much more than Santa Claus and Frosty. He's a descendent of the beloved Scrooge and proves that holiday magic can change hearts.
I love hearing what’s new every year. I get tired of a lot of the same old pop standards like “A Wonderful Christmastime” and “Jjngle Bell Rock”. I love Taylor Swift’s “Christmas Tree Farm” and my kickoff song for Christmas season is “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses. Oh and another relatively new song (thanks John Schaefer) that I love is “Groovy Christmas” by the Linda Lindas.
But there is an unmatched pair of Christmas tunes that I will never grow tired of. The two divas of December:
Music makes the holidays and I'm a fan of all of it from the sacred to the commercial. I'll kick it off with one from "the ridiculous to the sublime" category.
I love this character so much more than Santa Claus and Frosty. He's a descendent of the beloved Scrooge and proves that holiday magic can change hearts.
Sung by the man with the greatest ever name: Thurl Ravenscroft. Also known as Tony the Tiger. And you can hear him on all kinds of classic Disney recordings.
Sung by the man with the greatest ever name: Thurl Ravenscroft. Also known as Tony the Tiger. And you can hear him on all kinds of classic Disney recordings.
That is a name that is cat-worthy!
The voice is Boris Karlof-esque. The lyrics are sublime.
Please pardon my intrusion here, but I have a Spotify Christmas playlist that's quite special, if you ask me. And I share it with you here. Perfect for a day around the house, wrapping, decorating, drinking egg nogg (barf) or just enjoying the holidays. It's 99 songs and almost 6 hours long. Some fun standards, some funny, novelty songs and some surprises. Lots of fun. Enjoy.
Please pardon my intrusion here, but I have a Spotify Christmas playlist that's quite special, if you ask me. And I share it with you here. Perfect for a day around the house, wrapping, decorating, drinking egg nogg (barf) or just enjoying the holidays. It's 99 songs and almost 6 hours long. Some fun standards, some funny, novelty songs and some surprises. Lots of fun. Enjoy.
And if I were to pick a non-holiday song that I'd like to hear around the holidays I'd pick Family Tree. I sing to it in my car which belonged to my Dad. Makes me think of my cousins and I'm going to post it to them on FB.
Mario Lanza’s Christmas album is a family favorite, kindled by my dad’s love of it. In this track, my son and I get a kick out of the solemnly intoned introduction of each king.
Heh. I did for a while years ago, but one of the regulars objected to the creative liberties I was taking, so I withdrew.
We lost a really interesting player, so it got down to just Mr. T and I. Now @marksierra and @weekends have popped in. And T and I take our share of creative liberties, right @The_Soulful_Mr_T ?
Saw her live in concert a few times. Once on the lawn at Madison Square Park. Once at BAM in Brooklyn, opening for Morris Day. What a show. What a powerhouse of soul. Fantastic.
Got my first degree in Choral Conducting which keeps me on the lookout for new music!
Got to sing this one at Marble Collegiate some years ago.
To me it captures very vividly the night and the Glory of it!
Beautiful. I sang briefly in a choir. Now I'd happily settle for a round of caroling.
Some of the most beautiful voices in NYC gather to sing at Midnight Mass at St. John the Divine. My ex-husband and I used to attempt to out-sing each other as we joined in with the huge crowd.
Its also my favorite place to be during the blessing of the animals. Nothing is as exciting as the light flooding in as the doors open and an elephant leads man and beasts to the altar.
He was better known as Bo Carter, of the ribald Mississippi Sheiks (which earned me a WTF on Word Association
Are you sure it wasn't meant in a good way?
Anyway, maybe it's time to revisit the game and throw down.
Years of working in discos has often left me with a brain cluttered with "ah beep beep."
Mr. T resurrects some pretty obscure tunes, so I imagine he would welcome some new challenges.
I would imagine @drummerboy and @ml1 would be great at the game and I can imagine some very good input from @ridski. Perhaps everyone played long before I joined MOL.
Music makes the holidays and I'm a fan of all of it from the sacred to the commercial. I'll kick it off with one from "the ridiculous to the sublime" category.
I love this character so much more than Santa Claus and Frosty. He's a descendent of the beloved Scrooge and proves that holiday magic can change hearts.