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December 2019 - Volume XVII, Issue 12
Christmas Music for Everyone!
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” Are you ready?
Nothing says Christmas better than the music does. Christmas carols
are beautiful, but sometimes we want to celebrate Christmas with
songs that are sentimental or just fun.
The rollicking “Jingle Bells,” written as a Thanksgiving song,
was created by James Pierpont in 1857. He had no idea that it would
become popular. The sentimental favorite, “White Christmas,” was
written by Irving Berlin in 1940. Introduced in 1942, it was a song of
peace in a time of war. Bing Crosby's rendition is still famous. In 1934,
Eddie Cantor almost declined to record “Santa Claus is Coming to
Town” because he thought it was too much of a kiddie song. “Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was written by Johnny Marks for a Christmas
book given as a promotional item to Montgomery Ward Christmas
shoppers in 1939. Gene Autry sang it.
More recently, a modern style of Christmas music has
produced new classics, including: “I saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus,”
was composed and first sung by Reba McEntire. At the time, she was a
little-known gospel singer. “Jingle Bell Rock” composed and sung by
Bobby Helms is another holiday classic. Helms died in 1997. “Grandma
Got Run Over by a Reindeer” was composed and sung by Randy Brooks
in 1977. “Santa Baby,” with words and music by Joan Javits, is a hit as
sung by Eartha Kitt. Others who have recorded the song are Patti
Labelle, Vanessa Williams, and Gregory Hines. “Rocking around the
Christmas Tree” was composed by Johnny Marks. Sung by Brenda Lee
and others, it continues to be a holiday treat.
Do you know what the most played holiday song in 2018 was?
According to an ASCAP analysis of streaming and terrestrial radio data,
the hit classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” written by songwriter
Walter Afanasieff and pop star Mariah Carey, was the #1 song for the
second year in a row.
What’s your favourite Christmas song?
Cool Blogs, Sites
& Online
Resources to
Check Out!
An Amazing
Website to Visit This
Month:
“Awkward
Family
Photos”
This website is hilarious and
entertaining! When you visit,
you’ll see hundreds of awkward
family photos posted by people
from around the world. Some of
the photos are really
unbelievable.
If you’d like, you too may
post your own awkward family
photos to the site to share fun
and humor. Go ahead and take a
look.
awkwardfamilyphotos.com
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