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I'll Be Home For Christmas
Steyn On-line ^
| December 17, 2017
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/17/2017 7:03:46 PM PST by Twotone
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Steyn's 'song of the week' with a nice rendition of the song at the site.
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:03:46 PM PST
by
Twotone
To: Bigg Red
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:21:10 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, to)
To: Twotone
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:23:19 PM PST
by
Chgogal
(Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
To: Twotone
Great post, and beautiful Christmas song! Thanks for posting.
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:31:19 PM PST
by
Songcraft
To: Twotone
If you had to pin a precise date to the dawn of the Golden Age of American Christmas Songs, it would probably be December 1942. The Golden Age of American Christmas Songs didn't last very long--it appears to have ended in 1963, when Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison, Allan Sherman's version of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Phil Spector's album "A Christmas Gift for You" came out.
Although an occasional Christmas release such as Snoopy's Christmas by the Royal Guardsmen (1966) would come out in subsequent years, the era when one could expect to hear new Christmas songs each year was essentially over.
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:37:23 PM PST
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Fiji Hill
To: Twotone
Wonderful rendition by Linda Purl.
The intro says she is the daughter of Irving Berlin, but I find no documentation of that anywhere. She has done shows that are tributes to Irving Berlin.
To: Twotone
Here's an idea. Celebrate the season and just leave all that religious stuff alone.
"Son," the father said, "you didn't see the main event, you only saw the circus parade."
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12/17/2017 7:39:01 PM PST
by
EliRoom8
To: Twotone
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:44:58 PM PST
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
To: Twotone
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:25:36 PM PST
by
mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Fiji Hill
IMO outside the Carpenters, the only newer songs or versions of Christmas songs worth anything since I was born are “All I Want for Christmas is You” (NOT the terrible dull tuneless Mariah Carey thing), and Bon-E-M’s awesome “Mary’s Boy Child”.
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:27:53 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Twotone
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:28:38 PM PST
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mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:29:35 PM PST
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mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Boney M is the artist for "Mary's Boy Child" but there have been hundreds of great original Christmas songs since The Carpenters (which are rather lame in my opinion).
For example, A Spaceman Came Travelling.
To: Twotone
The Guitar sounds very much like Wes Montgomery
Thanks
That was great. A real Lulu..
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12/17/2017 8:37:13 PM PST
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mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; Windflier; Ditter; TheMom; Publius; COB1
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:37:19 PM PST
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:38:32 PM PST
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mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:39:58 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: Twotone
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/17/2017 8:51:57 PM PST
by
mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife
He’s had a lot of health issues, but he’s still with us, and performing.
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12/17/2017 8:52:50 PM PST
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dfwgator
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