Twelve Days ’til Christmas

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)

It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas

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.

Bing & Bowie

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.”

A Jazzy Christmas Tree

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)

We Three Kings

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…

Christmas Time Is Here

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 [...]

A Chaplin Thanksgiving

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.

The Real Thanksgiving Story

… sort of.
As narrated by Sean Connery, John Madden, Christopher Walken, and a cast of ones.  (Starring Jason Stephens as the Beaver.  And the Turkey.  And the Pilgrims, and the Indians, and the Bunnies, and…
Okay, so maybe it didn’t reeeeeally happen that way.  But it could’ve, right?

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

How can anyone get ready for Thanksgiving without their annual dose of the Peanuts?

Have a great Turkey Day!