Tag: Daily Dose of Christmas

We all know the words, right? And hey, even if we don’t, who cares! Here are a few favorites from Japan.

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Here’s a neat novelty song!

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Goodness, today was so busy I forgot to post this entirely. But it’s still today! Here’s the Band Perry, one of my favorite discoveries of this year.

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Yipes! Sorry to be late with this, but my computer decided to update this morning, so I had to restart and watch it update when I would have been picking out a Christmas thing. So here’s today’s Christmas thing: “The First Noel” as sung by Annie Lennox (whom I believe to have the best pure voice in popular music since Freddie Mercury).

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As we get closer to the day itself, out come The Essentials.

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Here, edited into one helpful suite, are the three major love themes from Love Actually! Which is, of course, the best Christmas movie ever (a point which will not be debated).

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I wasn’t a terribly big fan of my seventh grade English teacher, but one good thing she did was make us watch Scrooge, the musical version of A Christmas Carol, with Albert Finney as old Ebenezer. Of course, being the jaded world-wise young man I was then (translated: know-it-all little schmuck), I made fun of the movie without realizing its charms. Here’s one of the songs, which erupts when Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, who turns out to be fond of life.

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I don’t always believe that the first version of a song is the best, but in this case…yes, it is.

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I had already posted yesterday’s Daily Dose of Christmas when I learned that it was Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, so I missed the boat there. I hope he doesn’t send his heavenly goons after me for posting these on the day after!

Anyway, here’s Old Blue Eyes. A few times, actually.

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I’ve never been able to decide if I like “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, or if I find it really irritating. This version’s pretty fun, if you happen to have been a brass player at some point in your life.

Heck, you often can’t go wrong with comedic versions of “Twelve Days”…here’s a version Johnny Carson did (embedding is disabled, so you have to follow the link, and excuse the awful video as it’s a rip from an old VHS tape — sound is fine, though).

And then there’s this:

I include that mainly for the fact that they incorporate two of the “Chicken Dances” from Arrested Development.

And then, of course, the Muppets:

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