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As a child, silent nights were rare at my home in Churchtown in Dublin over Christmas. My mother Maureen was a singer in the Royalettes and the Rockettes at the Theatre Royal on Hawkins Street in Dublin during the late 1940s and 1950s.
So, in between popping the turkey in the oven, helping us children write our letters to Santa and decorating the tree, she would sing around the house.
Judy Garland s Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, from the movie Meet Me in St Louis was a particular favourite of hers - and ours.
She would insist my little sister Marina and I dance around the tree, to Brenda Lee s Rockin Around The Christmas Tree. It was non-negotiable. And why would you want to negotiate? Our Yuletide was a time of visions of silver bells ringing and sugar plums dancing in our imaginations and, for me, great music.
2020 May Have Sucked, but Josh Gad Tried to Make It Better
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No one seems to be more excited about the opportunities 2021 may bring than Josh Gad. To celebrate the end of a hellish year, Gad partnered with Captain Morgan for an updated retelling of a holiday favorite, lovingly called Twas the End of 2020. The retelling hits the highs and lows of 2020, including the shortage of toilet paper, getting to wear sweatpants everywhere, and reuniting with friends over Zoom. It really does speak to billions of us who, I think, have all had this
Twilight Zone experience together, Gad said to POPSUGAR. What it calls upon are things that each of us understand to a T, like the crisis of being able to get toilet paper or the idea of putting on the COVID 15.
10 Must-Hear Old-School Country Christmas Albums David Cantwell
Country music and Christmas music are deeply entwined. For starters, both genres foreground family and tradition, novelty and loss, and both take it on faith that we probably aren’t ever going to get everything on our Christmas list: The contingent cheer of Merle’s Haggard’s “If We Make It through December” falls right in line with other holiday-song sentiments like “I’ll be home for Christmas… if only in my dreams” and “Someday soon we all will be together… if the fates allow.”
Where would Christmas be without country music? Singing cowboy Gene Autry is more responsible for establishing the Christmas record as an annual and lucrative pop subgenre than anyone not named Bing Crosby. And, right this second, Nashville Sound classics such as “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Jingle Bell Rock,” “Pretty Paper” and “Blue Christmas” remain in heavy rotation on your l
Top Christmas music releases for the 2020 holiday season
Goldmine compiled a shopping list of the best 2020 Christmas releases to bring out your holiday spirit.
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Dec 18, 2020
Goldmine compiled a shopping list of the best 2020 Christmas releases to bring out your holiday spirit.
By Gillian G. Gaar
on vinyl.
We start with a vinyl bonanza, courtesy of Legacy Recordings, which is issuing a treasure trove of goodies. A must have is
A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records, featuring Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” and other holiday classics put through the girl group blender by The Ronettes and The Crystals. In luscious mono of course. Elvis Presley’s