Tag: carols
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My Grandmother Had The Best Christmas Music
If you’ve paid attention to my posted lists of my favorite Christmas music in previous years, you’ll see that it is heavily weighted towards music from long before I was born. One thing I share with a lot of aging baby boomers (the folks who raised me) is that three names come to the forefront…
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My Favorite Christmas Records #20-23
This is Part Three of an ongoing series. Also see PART ONE and PART TWO. Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a…
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The Great Carols Conflict
This post appears out of order–it should have hit the net before the last post, but I’m apparently not clever enough to handle complex things like calendars. I trust that you all are smart enough to figure it out, so here you go My wife has a little less Christmas spirit than I do. More…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #2 The Carpenters: Christmas Collection
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #3 Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #6 The Roches: We Three Kings
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #7 The Edge of Christmas
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #9 Christmas With The Rat Pack
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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My Favorite Christmas Recordings #10 Ultra-Lounge Christmas Cocktails Part One & Part Two
Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season. Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…
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