I can FINALLY enjoy Christmas! All my gifts are given, plans are made, I just have to ease my way to the finish line. Which means I get to have just the fun bit.
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Christmas Songs Grand Finale: YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE! Bing and “White Christmas” or Joni and “River”?
I expect INPUT here! We need to vote and decide once and for all if the ultimate American Christmas song is a white man singing about snow and homesickness, or a hippy woman singing about longing and guilt and regrets.
Continue readingWhat’s Your Favorite Christmas Carol?
The grand finale of all my Christmas songs posts! What is your favorite Christmas song? Can be a recording, or can be a song you sing yourself.
Continue readingChristmas Songs Post: Which is More Irritating, “Where Are You Christmas” or “Christmas Shoes”?
Yes, it is the battle of the hateful songs! The ones where when they pop up on your Pandora Christmas channel, you are willing to listen to an ad to be able to skip them. Or maybe everyone else loves this songs and it is just me?
Continue readingChristmas Songs Post: Weirdest Christmas Match Up, Bing and Bowie or Band Aid?
POPKA! I have another challenge that I think you can best help us with! Which very strange 1980s Christmas video is the most strangest 1980s Christmas video?
Continue readingChristmas Songs Post: Which Blow the Doors Off Christmas Song is Better, Kate Smith’s “I Heard the Bells” or Mahalia Jackson’s “I Wonder as I Wander”?
These are two great songs to put together! Because they are both about American history in different ways, and they both are about blasting out your hope and faith in the midst of bad times.
Continue readingChristmas Songs Post: Which Broadway Musical Christmas Song is Better, “Hard Candy” or “Need a Little Christmas”?
Oh yeah! Angela Lansbury versus Dolly Parton! That’s the kind of battle of the champions we need.
Continue readingChristmas Songs Post: Blue Christmas, Elvis or Tammy Wynette?
Another groupthink challenge! Another classic Christmas song! My goodness, America has a lot of weird depressing Christmas songs. It really is the Seasonal Affective Disorder holiday.
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