MUSIC:
Jaquandor has been offering Your Daily Dose of Christmas.
About.com’s Top 100 Christmas songs
The Bells of Christmas by Julie Andrews from a Firestone tire LP I still own.
Nat King Cole -The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
Snow from White Christmas (Bing Crosby, et al).
The Dream Isaiah Saw, plus the backstory of the song, the lyrics and another rendition.
Tamale Christmas by Joe King Carrasco
SamuraiFrog’s contributions include Good King Wenceslas and the original Santa, Baby, as well as my favorite, A Christmas Carol by Tom Lehrer. But you should READ what he has to say about It Feels Like Christmas.
Eddie, the Renaissance Geek’s usual offering.
A Moose in a Maple Tree – The All Canadian 12 Days of Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer in Latin, set to plainsong.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen if it were played in a spaghetti western
The Beatles’ Christmas Record 1963
Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas (Full Album)
A very Coverville Christmas 2013; I especially enjoyed the Led Zeppelin.
dj BC writes, “I just dropped Santastic 8, the 8th annual Holiday mashup album in the series … This year we offer 14 new Christmas mashups and one old one which was reissued because it is great and it matches the album cover so well.
A goldmine of mostly very obscure, very bad seasonal music! Examples: a surfing Little Drummer Boy; a Jimi Hendrix version of Auld Lang Syne; and the truly awful Debbie’s Last Christmas.
VISUAL:
NORAD Tracks Santa Command Video 2013
That WestJet ad
Peanuts, 1966 and Peanuts, 1967 and Peanuts, 1968; in a similar vein, Off the Mark.
1966 CBS promo I remember watching at the time
Varicolored Christmas ChemisTREE
You do not want your school Christmas party to go like this.
Vintage Christmas cards; he’s gotten more, but this was the first one.
NARRATIVE:
Sharp Little Pencil: The Advent of the Adventure and Christmas Traditions.
Yes, Megyn Kelly, Santa Can Be Black (and Jesus, Too), assuming Santa is real. Oh, Megyn was just kidding…
The White House has NOT decreed that its 2013 Christmas trees will be referred to as ‘Holiday trees’. So are you being persecuted?
Arthur’s wonderful Christmastime.
Fred Hembeck’s tote of notable holiday gifts connected to the comics medium
A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never aired.
