Tonight the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge warms up your evening with a performance of Once in Royal David’s City.
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Tonight, from the 1965 EP Prop Del Bressol (“Near the Crib”), Catalonian choir Orfeó Enric Morera keeps Christmas up and running with a few traditional Czech, German, and Italian songs.
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Yesterday, after I figured everyone had probably had a snootful of Christmas music, SDA commenter Frances pointed out that the original twelve days of Christmas are just getting started. So now, all of a sudden, It Feels Like Christmas Again. What gives?
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Now that our Christmas music selections are over and done with for the year, we move forward with a look at Boxing Day festivities in the country of Georgia.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II delivers her 2014 Christmas message to the people of the Commonwealth nations.
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Earlier today in the comments SDA reader kcdist linked to a touching personal video that nicely embodies the underlying spirit of Christmas. As commenter Ken (Kulak) put it,
Good for you and the others. Love is a major part of the Christmas celebration.
Yes it is. So gather the family ’round to watch Carmen’s generosity being repaid in kind.
Beauty.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Tonight, to keep us in our nice relaxed holiday mood, we listen to the the soothing fourth and fifth movements from Corelli’s Christmas Concerto in G Minor.
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Tonight Charlie and Ira Louvin, accompanied by what sounds like a celestial choir, use their brotherly harmonies to let us know that it’s It’s Christmas Time. Give or take.
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Tonight, as if anyone needed the help, Eddie Lawrence puts us in That Holiday Spirit.
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In tonight’s Christmas music selection en route to the tips the Wells Cathedral Choir, which first convened in the county of Somerset in southwest England in 909 AD, performs a lovely version of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
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Ohhh, there’s no place like Home For The Holidays… ♫
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In tonight’s seasonal selection Bing Crosby and actress/singer Carol Richards team up to sing the modern standard Silver Bells.
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In tonight’s Christmas entertainment Variety Fun-Pack Special you get to choose between James Brown’s Funky Christmas Millennium – huh! – or Midwest boy Andy Williams’ rendition of The Christmas Song.
If you play both, your computer will explode. Choose wisely.
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We’re not quite there yet, but It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Janette and Joe Carter, the children of A.P. and Sara of the original Carter family, gather at the homestead in Virginia to reprise one of their parents’ early songs with the same modest, unadorned, natural musicality, simultaneously corporeal and otherworldly, that flows like a river from the Virginia hills to the heart.
The footage, filmed by Alan Lomax in 1983, is a remarkable document of Americana; if you heard it without seeing it, and maybe added a few pops and crackles, you’d swear you were listening to a mountain recording from the 1920s. Without further ado, here’s Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
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In the summer of 1984 former CCR frontman John Fogerty recorded tonight’s Tips music, the timeless, all-American classic Centerfield.
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Riding public transit is like inviting 20 random…oooh, look, it’s the Swingle Singers!
You don’t see that very often.
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Tonight we view some surprisingly high-quality film footage from the turn of the last century: here’s Jamaica Street, Glasgow in 1901.
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It’s a bit too early for Christmas music, but the melody of tonight’s music selection evokes the season, somehow, at least for me; your mileage may vary. From 1954, here’s Erroll Garner’s bouncy I’ve Got To Be A Rug Cutter.
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Tonight we get a rare glimpse inside Texan Wilson “Connie” Edwards’ 100,000+ square foot hangar complex and its remarkable treasure trove of iconic warbirds. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for the video).
h/t Gordon M.
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