You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why…
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Tonight we head overseas for a bit of Romanian Christmas music, as the the Bucharest Madrigal Choir sings the traditional carol Dom, Dom sa-naltam.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II delivers her Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.
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Floating through the ether for 100 years, the Trinity Choir makes a stop once again to perform Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
Here’s wishing you all a very merry Christmas, full of peace, love, joy, and communion.

Tonight, in a stirring performance, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir charge apace with composed exaltation through the Christmas classic O Come, All Ye Faithful.
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Tonight, a little brotherly harmony as the Louvin Brothers sing It’s Christmas Time.

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Tonight the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, along with the Tenebrae Choir, perform For unto us a child is born from Handel’s Messiah.
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Just a friendly reminder that if you don’t ease up on the potations over the holidays you could end up spending Christmas In Jail.
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Exactly 2 years ago a group of singers assembled at a shopping mall in Southern California to delight everyone present with an incredibly special performance. While we realize that this has a significant chance of offending the overly precious sensibilities of the politically correct princesses out there (both genders), it’s a risk we’re willing to take.
In the run up to Christmas, we hope that the lives of you & your family are not too frenzied and you do take a few moments to enjoy the true meaning of the season.
In between your other responsibilities, if you have a few moments to share your reader tips in the comments, that would be much appreciated.

We’re going to kick off this year’s Christmas music selections with our annual presentation – let’s call it a tradition – of a surprising musical performance that raises the spirits by all but erasing, for a magical moment, the distance between quotidian reality and the transcendent.
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Tonight’s Tips music selection features American songwriter Aimee Mann in a live radio station performance of the nostalgic and melancholy Whatever Happened To Christmas?
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Tonight’s music en route to the Tips is a true rarity: a pop song about the importance of family, and of making proper use of your time on earth while you’re still here. From 1989, here are Mike & The Mechanics performing their worldwide number one hit The Living Years.
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The Beast In Me, by Nick Lowe.
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Tonight we head overseas for a tale of battles glorious and deeds victorious, as the late Andy Stewart sings A Scottish Soldier.
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Oh the Deadwood Stage is a-headin’ on over the hills where the Injun arrows are thicker than porcupine quills. Dangerous land, no time to delay, so whip crack-away, whip crack-away, Whip-Crack Away.
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A man, he’s like a rusty wheel on a rusty cart. He sings his song as he rattles along, and then he falls apart. And We Sing Hallelujah…
That’s Richard and Linda Thompson.
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Cover tunes are all well and good until they scare the poop out of your overnight house guests…
h/t Kate
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Tonight, England’s Captain Sensible advises everyone to keep talking Happy Talk.
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Some people are born to sing, and sometimes they don’t even wait very long to get started…
h/t
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