Welcome to our Wednesday Coffeehouse Christmas Jam! We’ve invited some of our favorite artists to sing some of our much loved Christmas songs. We hope that you can stay a while and enjoy the festivities.
Next Wednesday our Wednesday Coffeehouse will feature Christmas carols. So, please come back.
Perry Como
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Eartha Kitt
Santa Baby
Dean Martin
Let It Snow
Cherry Tree Carol
Nat King Cole
The Christmas Song
Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Judy Garland
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
We end with one of my favorite movie scenes, Bing Crosby singing White Christmas in the midst of World War II:
In case anyone is interested, all of the audios I post are from my own CDs
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I love Eartha Kitt singing Santa Baby. There have been covers (Kylie for one), but no one does it like Eartha.
ReplyDeleteDear Nick ~~ You must have an enormous collection of CD s and have quite a lot of ones most of us like.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that Gene Autry sang
Frosty the snowman. I used to love
Gene Autry when I was a young girl,
and listened to him on our old radio.
Thanks for your visit Nick and glad you enjoy some of the jokes.
Have a wonderful Christmas, my friend
Love and Best wishes, Merle.
oh my Nick you are ringig my chimes with these great songs Eartha and Dean . Way to enter my heart !!Thanks buddy Sandy
ReplyDeletePuss-in-Boots : Eartha Kitt is superb! I had forgotten how much I love her voice and phrasing until I was going through my CDs looking for Christmas music.
ReplyDeleteMerle: I don’t know if a have an enormous collection of CDs; I do believe that I have a quality collection. I really have more LPs that I can neither play nor convert into MP3s. As I was seeking Christmas music I listened to voices that I had not heard in years: Gene Autry was one of them.
Sandy: You are more than welcome. These Coffeehouse posts have brought back to me the voices of people I’d almost forgotten about, which has been a great experience for me. I’m glad that they’re touching you, too.
I love these old songs and singers. Thank you for starting my day off with Christmas in my heart.
ReplyDeleteChina Girl: Thank you. I am really enjoying this trip down “memory lane.”
ReplyDeleteI just posted a comment so if I've repeated myself I apologise!!
ReplyDeleteHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas is my all time favourite Christmas song and I'm going to be singing it all day!
CJ xx
Nice...I'm keeping these going while I read my daily blogs!!! Great idea! Thanks...
ReplyDeleteAnd a very Happy and Healthy Holiday to you and yours....be well, stay happy!
Peace
Thanks for inviting me over. I love the old stuff, I grew up hearing all this stuff... my favorite is Nat King Cole, he just cannot be matched! Now it feels like Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteEartha Kitt. Now there was a woman.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm hearing the music. Firefox updated today. That might be why I had to open it in IE.
ReplyDeleteI really liked Perry Como when I was a kid, like maybe six or seven. My parents liked him, but Bing Crosby was their favorite.
Check out the Blog Cookie Exchanges if you get time. Susie organized again. :-)
Nice.
ReplyDeleteI had heard of Eartha Kitt, but I guess that I had never heard her voice. It's perfect!
Thanks for the Christmas music, Nick. I enjoyed it.
Good music. They just don't make it like that anymore! One of my favorite stations on Sirius radio is the 40's station.
ReplyDeleteCrystal Jigsaw: You are welcome. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is also one of my favorites, especially when sung by Judy Garland. She was quite a star!
ReplyDeleteOdat: You are welcome. I have been playing these off and on all day. For some reason, it is songs such as these that help make Christmas feel “real” to me.
Shimmerrings: You are welcome. Thanks for dropping by. I agree with you about Nat King Cole! His voice is magnificent as is his styling. I love to hear him sing.
James Higham : I agree! I think it was Orson Welles who said that Eartha Kitt was "the most exciting woman in the world." I agree!
Squirl: Glad you were able to hear the music! I used to watch the Perry Como show every week and went to see Bing Crosby movies with my aunt whenever the came out.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the BBC sent an alert that IE is making preparing a major fix because of another security problem that allows third parties to take over one’s computer. I how it’s done by now, but I haven’t checked.
Carol: You are welcome. I was “in lust” with Eartha Kitt when I was in college and she played Cat Woman on the Batman TV series. Young love it was, it was!
Lynilu : You are welcome. I had forgotten how much I love this genre of music until I started these Coffeehouse posts and began going through my CDs. I guess I really am an old foggy at heart!
Nick,my friend my hat's off to you!great posting.
ReplyDeleteMike G.: Thank you, my friend!
ReplyDeletevery cool list- i do love christmas... right now i have sinatra's "have yourselves a merry little christmas" as my phone's ringtone!
ReplyDeletetell me, how do you get the embedded divshare buttons... i can only paste a link!
Angel: Thank you. You know, I have a lot of Sinatra music, but I don’t have him singing any Christmas songs.
ReplyDeleteTo embed DivShare music, go to the dashboard, click “Share” beneath the song. When the options show up in the new window, highlight the top one Embed MP3, copy and paste it.
Please note that you must upload the file as an MP3. I’ve found that Firefox won’t upload MP3s, even if that is the file I have on my computer. So, I use Safari when I upload and embed with DivShare. (Google Chrome also works; I’ve had problems with IE).
We LOVE those songs! Thank you, Saint Nick!
ReplyDeleteSome great voices singing some terrific music.
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