Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

I kind of get the vibe of late that this song is not terribly well-liked, but to me it’s one of the most beautiful Christmas songs of the last thirty years or so. It’s only very tangentially about Christmas — … Continue reading →

Frank and Bing.

Oooooh! I used this a few years ago, but it was on a really really really dodgy copy, that someone posted to YouTube from a worn VHS tape. Now, the official Johnny Carson channel has posted a full, nice copy, … Continue reading →

I manage to find some of the weirdest Christmas shit every year by just searching for some random thing with the word “Christmas”. Here’s a case in point: Hamildolph!

Franz Liszt wrote a suite of fourteen piano pieces late in his life, some of which are based on Christmas carols, and which he collectively titled “The Christmas Tree Suite”. And here it is! Interestingly, this is not the kind … Continue reading →

This song has been performed by everybody, but never so well as when Judy Garland did it first.

Military music groups at Christmastime! What could be better?

How about a visit to the wonderful world of K-Pop!!! (What’s K-Pop, you ask? Quoting from Wikipedia: K-pop (an abbreviation of Korean pop; Hangul: 케이팝) is a musical genre originating in South Korea that is characterized by a wide variety … Continue reading →

My love of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is well-documented, so here’s one of the first season’s funnier song-and-dance numbers: “California Christmastime”.