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"A Merry American Christmas” by Kate Smith, 1941 Columbia 36443 This record was released in 1941 and recorded before the US entered World War 2. It is a fitting song for what transpired on December 7, 1941, to help soldiers and their families as the war started and progressed. Years of horror were to come but I am sure this song by a very popular singer of her day helped many folks through the holiday seasons of the war. Kate Smith was one of my mother’s favorite singers as she grew up. They were about the same age and my...

Nostalgia can make a lot of different things sound, taste, smell, feel and look better than they really are. However, only a select amount of things can be nostalgic. Once that limit is reached, then it’s just annoying. And Christmas music is the worst offender. Twas’ the afternoon of Nov. 24, Black Friday, the first official day of Christmas songs. I was driving along the gorgeous Garden State Parkway. Feeling in the spirit, I decided to play some holiday tunes as I drove. Listening to the “Essential Christmas” playlist on Apple Music, I was more or less horrified by the...

The FReeper Canteen Presents... Tell Us Your Favorite "Holiday" Songs *Video* Christmas Music PlaylistPlease remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.

This season, it's important to focus on the true meaning of Christmas: compliance. Christmas caroling, once a holiday tradition of family and friends spreading joy and cheer to neighbors and communities, is now illegal, and rightfully so. We are—and will forever be—in the midst of a dangerous pandemic, and nothing spreads lethal viruses more virulently than through friends, family, singing, and joy. Dismay not! You can still find a sliver of Christmas cheer while isolated in your sanitized home, double-masked and quadruple-vaccinated, by listening to some of these COVID-19 Christmas Carols: “I'll Be Vaxxed for Christmas” - A merry, joyful...

One of my favorite Christmas carols for Kirk.

***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ The Freeper Canteen Music Dedication Presents: Beware Of Merry Christmas Music ~ *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for...

Biden Christmas impeachment song… Music here

Vintage Christmas Tree: Cool Nostalgic Xmas Songs From The 1930s & 40s (Remastered by Past Perfect)

Kelly Clarkson singing "O Holy Night" at Rockerfeller Christmas tree lighting, December 3rd, 2003.Kelly Clarkson sings "O Holy Night"

On the road ... Christmas Eve in South Carolina! Join us for this special song of peace and love as we celebrate the birth of the Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas!‬ #TulsiGabbard #Christmas #Jesus

Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas (Merry Christmas, FReepers!)

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember. To fit the number scheme, when you reach number 9, representing the Fruits of the Holy Ghost, the originator combined...

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling...

Nine Lessons and Carols in binaural sound optimized for headphone listening

Its Swingin' Monday on Ranch Radio and here's Ramblin' Tommy Scott and his 1951 recording of Santa Claus Shuffle

Today we have George Jones and his 1957 recording of A New Baby For Christmas.

Happy Advent! We enter into a penitential spirit, awaiting the Messiah in anticipation of the joy of Christmas. We also celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas on Dec. 6th. Mass and Office Propers and Texts Missa Ad Te Levavi Kontakion and Troparion to St. Andrew (Byzantine) Seasonal Psalm Psalm 84 (85), Benedixisti Hymns and Carols Creator Alme Siderum Verbum Supernum Prodiens O Come, Divine Messiah On Jordan's Banks Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming Hark! A Thrilling Voice is Sounding Hymns in honor of St. Nicholas

Żołnierz drogą maszerował... (Tę kolędę tę jedyną/ śpiewam dla Ciebie, Dziecino) Kolęda żołnierska [Soldier Marched Down The Road: This Carol, This Only One / I'm Singing For Thee, Baby Jesus] [The Polish soldier’s Christmas carol] - Chór 4 Asy [Choir 4 Aces] Melodje, 1946 (Polish) NOTE: This Soldier’s Carol from wintter 1945 was written as a Christmas Carol by an unknown author to the melody of a well known Polish partisan song: Żołnierz drogą maszerował (A Soldier Marched Down The Road). Text of this carol describes the meeting of a young Polish soldier with the Infant Jesus. The soldier turns...

First, what are your favorite Christmas songs? I would name Silver Bells, Do You Hear What I Hear, and White Christmas by Bing Crosby, Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by Enya, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Second, what are some hymns, and other pieces of Christian music, that resonate at Christmas?

It's that time of year to post Your Favorite Christmas song.This is mine,Nat King Cole - "The Christmas Song" (1961),what's yours?