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Well, we made it to San Antonio safely, if not totally frustrated after a 15-hour drive..but that is a story for another day...
Today, Christmas Eve and tomorrow, Christmas Day we leave you with the following collection of beautiful Tuneage...and a video we swiped from our Sweet friend Anndi...
The music will make you smile (we hope)...the video, may bring tears to your eyes, but this is our wish for Christmas as it is the wish of the woman who posted it...
May your Christmas be filled with family and friends and loved ones and safe celebrations.....
Again...WE LOVE YOU ALL
Today, Christmas Eve and tomorrow, Christmas Day we leave you with the following collection of beautiful Tuneage...and a video we swiped from our Sweet friend Anndi...
The music will make you smile (we hope)...the video, may bring tears to your eyes, but this is our wish for Christmas as it is the wish of the woman who posted it...
May your Christmas be filled with family and friends and loved ones and safe celebrations.....
Again...WE LOVE YOU ALL
"Do You Hear What I Hear"
BING CROSBY
Words and music written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne in 1962. It was originally recorded by the HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE in 1962. However, Bing Crosby made a hit recording of the carol on Capitol Records on November 22, 1963 and released a week and a half later on a then-new Christmas album.
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
BRIAN SETZER
Written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958. Although Decca released it in both 1958 and again in 1959, it did not sell well until Lee became a popular star in 1960; that Christmas season, it hit #16 on the Billboard pop chart and turned into a perennial holiday favorite.
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
BRENDA LEE
Music and lyrics by Tommie Connor. The original recording by JIMMY BOYD reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1952, and on the Cash Box magazine chart at the beginning of the following year. The song was commissioned by Neiman Marcus to promote their Christmas card for the year, which featured an original sketch by artist Perry Barlow, who drew for the New Yorker magazines for many decades.
The record was actually condemned by the Catholic Church in Boston when it was first released on the grounds it mixed sex with Christmas. Boyd, aged thirteen, was widely photographed meeting with the Archdiocese to explain the song.
"Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth"
BING CROSBY & DAVID BOWIE
"Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"
Also know as "So This Is Christmas"
JOHN LENNON
The record was actually condemned by the Catholic Church in Boston when it was first released on the grounds it mixed sex with Christmas. Boyd, aged thirteen, was widely photographed meeting with the Archdiocese to explain the song.
"Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth"
BING CROSBY & DAVID BOWIE
Words and music by Katherine K. Davis. Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone have been credited with writing the song, even though they were only the arrangers for their recordings of it.
The track was originally recorded on September 11, 1977 for Crosby's 1977 television special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas. The pair exchanged stilted dialogue about what they do for Christmas before singing a medley of a traditional song, "Little Drummer Boy", and a new song written for the special, "Peace on Earth". Bowie's appearance has been described as a "surreal" event, undertaken at a time that he was "actively trying to normalize his career". He has since recalled that he only appeared on the show because "I just knew my mother liked him." Crosby would die just over a month after recording the special.
According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing "Little Drummer Boy". "I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?" Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special's scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then wrote "Peace on Earth" and arranged a medley of it with "Little Drummer Boy". Bowie sang "Peace on Earth" and Crosby performed "Little Drummer Boy".
The track was originally recorded on September 11, 1977 for Crosby's 1977 television special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas. The pair exchanged stilted dialogue about what they do for Christmas before singing a medley of a traditional song, "Little Drummer Boy", and a new song written for the special, "Peace on Earth". Bowie's appearance has been described as a "surreal" event, undertaken at a time that he was "actively trying to normalize his career". He has since recalled that he only appeared on the show because "I just knew my mother liked him." Crosby would die just over a month after recording the special.
According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing "Little Drummer Boy". "I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?" Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special's scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then wrote "Peace on Earth" and arranged a medley of it with "Little Drummer Boy". Bowie sang "Peace on Earth" and Crosby performed "Little Drummer Boy".
"Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"
Also know as "So This Is Christmas"
JOHN LENNON
Released December 18, 1971...a different war was being fought...today, this song rings true once again...
And on that note....BRING THEM ALL HOME SANTA...
And on that note....BRING THEM ALL HOME SANTA...
