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I also adore secular "Christmas" music. I cannot let an Advent go by without hearing "Sleigh Ride" sung by: Karen Carpenter, Harry Connick Jr, The Ronnettes, and Ella Fitzgerald. They all sing it differently and wonderfully! I *need* to hear Kay Starr singing "Everybody's Waiting for the Man with the Bag" and Brenda Lee with "Papa Noel"....Or "Let it Snow" sung by just about anyone, or "Favorite Things" by Tony Bennett (he rocks), or just about any Christmas song with Bing Crosby, with and without the Andrews Sisters. "Winter Wonderland" by Ella is an awesome song! Anytime of year! Don't be surprised if you drive by my house in July and hear "Ella Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas" being cranked. Why not?
Oh what the heck, I admit it. I listen to secular Christmas music year round. Even as a toddler I would play the two Christmas albums we owned: "The Little Drummer Boy" by the Harry Simone Choir (the whole album, not just that one song) and "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby. "White Christmas" got me into swing music in the first place.
I like looking forward to snow and store decorations. To me that just adds to Jesus' birthday, all the fun stuff getting ready for it. I put up my tree before Thanksgiving and take it down sometime in February. I keep the manager up that long as well, why rush things? I keep my lights up in my windows all January, when all the snow comes, so that white and colored lights sparkle on the snow. It's too pretty to take down right after the holidays.
As far as Christmas music goes, real Christmas music celebrating the birth of Christ, I like Boney M's Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord as far as pop music goes. "Verbum Caro" is awesome and is an Advent song, "Gesu Bambino" rocks, "Creator of the Starry Skies," very nice...there are too many. Too many good ones not to listen to for year round enjoyment.
And for some reason watching "Die Hard" always puts me into the Christmas Spirit...along with the repulsively awful "Home Alone." But I love that house and the decorations in it...too bad I couldn't remove all the characters out of the screen and just leave the house back drop and watch that for an hour.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Ah, you'd have loved China. In the height of summer (July/August), there was a water truck that used to come round sprinkling the roads to keep the dust down - the town I lived in was on the edge of the desert, so it got pretty dry and dusty. This truck used to play a tune to warn people that it was coming - a medley of 'Santa Claus is coming to town', 'We wish you a merry Christmas' and 'Jingle bells'!
Nice to see you back - have you been away again, or just busy?
Yes, I would have very much liked that truck...
Busy with school, plus my husband was away for an entire week, then worked from home for a week. I survived the first week then recovered the second.
I will be coming by to see you soon!
Oh good - I've been missing your comments :¬)
I've missed your blog, and your birthday! Glad it was a good one!
Thank you! And thanks for your comments - I haven't responded to all of them, but enjoyed reading them all.
I love Christmas music too... especially Kenny Rogers - that is what we grew up listening to! :)
And my birthday is Dec 23, so I ALWAYS loved sharing the season with Jesus :)
Beth, what a great time to have a birthday!!! I don't have one thing by Kenny Rogers, but am always adding to the Christmas collection!
Umnnnh....for a condition such as yours, I know some people who have some VERY nice meds.
Dad29,
When the school year really gets underway, call me.
I put up my tree before Thanksgiving and take it down sometime in February.
Last year we bought one of those metal-with-lights reindeer that you put in your front yard, and we didn't take it down until March. :-)
Diana, you go girl! An argument can be made for not putting up the tree or decoratons until just before Christmas -- Advent being technically a penetential season after all -- but taking them down right after Christmas? No way!! The classic Christmas season extends all the way to Candlemas, February 2, so drive the neighbors nuts by keeping your stuff up until at least the Super Bowl!
We go cut a live tree a couple of weeks before Christmas and leave it up as long as possible. A couple of years ago we had to take it down quick because we discovered spiders in it. It had webs all over it. Arrgh!
Hi Sean,
we put one of our trees in our living room and we don't spend too much time in there...I have a *lot* of old world type ornaments that take forever to put on, so Thanksgiving weekend is the best time for me! Plus we go on vacation in December and there is no time.
I do differentiate between Christmas decoration and winter decorating. So I applaud light up reindeer in the yard until March 21st.
Why do what everyone else does? I would bore myself to death!
Diana, how did you know I was just singing "Everybody's Waiting For The Man With The Bag"? I love Christmas music year round. Even when it's hot out you'll hear me singin' "Baby, It's Cold Outside" or "Winter Wonderland". My husband doesn't say anything. He just gives me that 'look'.
I knew it! I thought of you the entire time I was writing that thinking you were a kindred Christmas cheer spirit!
Speaking of Christmas spirit, do you remember how when we were kids, Christmas cartoons were only on in December, and then only once? LOL, thanks to video and DVD, you can watch them all year now. My two-year-old watches the Grinch at least once a week. :-)
Oh MAN! Christmas ain't Christmas without the record from my mom and dad's collection playing on my duel tape-deck, fancy record player from 1987 or so. It's the Glenn Campbell Christmas record with the song "Little Toy Trains". Whenever I think of Christmas, this song plays in my head.
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