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 [...]

Sugar Chile Robinson

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 [...]

Dancing with the Stars

In honor of her progression to the final four on “Dancing with the Stars” this past week, here is what is probably Marie Osmond’s first televised performance: dancing with a star named Andy Williams.  There’s some pretty good barbershopping by her big brothers in this video, too.

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

I never would have expected to see this kind of bluegrass talent thrown together on a show like “Late Night with David Letterman.” Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs just continues to get better with age.

What I didn’t know was that Steve Martin had that kind of talent.  He looks perfectly at home standing and playing next [...]