Dec
13
Twelve Days ’til Christmas
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It’s twelve days until the big day, so we’ll celebrate with the appropriate song… performed here by John Denver and the Muppets.
Only eleven days left to shop!
(Hat-tip: Kid Songs)
Dec
12
From almost fifty years ago, here’s Perry Como crooning “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” From his 1958 television Christmas Special.
Dec
11
Here’s a new twist on an old classic, put out a few years ago by a somewhat unlikely pair: crooner Bing Crosby and rocker David Bowie singing “Little Drummer Boy.”
Dec
05
Here’s a great jazzy rendition of the holiday classic “O Christmas Tree,” performed by the Bill Susman Jazz Trio.
(Hat-tip: Kid Songs, a great place to find popular Christmas song lyrics plus a ton of other kid-friendly songs and videos)
Dec
04
I’ll bet you never thought you’d see or hear the mutant Wolverine singing Christmas carols, didja?
Here’s Broadway and Hollywood star Hugh Jackman, joined up with fellow actors David Hobson and Peter Cousens, singing the traditional carol “We Three Kings.” With more than a little of that old Broadway flare thrown in…
Dec
03
It’s December, and for most of us that means shopping, plenty of hot cocoa and endless days of listening to Christmas songs on the radio. But just in case you don’t have that “Christmas ’round the clock” station programmed into the car stereo settings, I’ll be bringing you some of my own favorite Christmas songs and carols by way of videos. And how can you kick off the Christmas season without another touch of the ol’ Peanuts gang?
Here’s the first of my Christmas favorites, “Christmas Time Is Here”:
Happy December!
Nov
30
Move over Shirley Temple and Toni Harper, there’s a new child prodegy in town! Or at least, there was sixty years ago…
Frankie “Sugar Chile” Robinson had an amazing gift of jazz. Here is he featured in the movie “No Leave, No Love” playing for a couple of G.I.’s and their doll. Unfortunately, after a brief career (three or four years or so) and this solo movie appearance, young Robinson simply disappeared from the public eye.
“That’s no player, that’s me!“
Nov
28
This Hollywood writers’ strike has got to be resolved soon — it’s starting to affect my favorite TV shows.
Take for instance the newest episode of NBC’s Heroes:
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but somehow it just isn’t quite the same…
Nov
23
Among many things, I am thankful for the good fortune of spending Thanksgiving with my family and for the bountiful feast in which we partook.
Unlike this poor Little Fellow, so many Thanksgivings ago…
Charlie Chaplin, from the 1925 hit The Gold Rush.
