Feliz Navidad
I have never been a fan of this song, but this year marks its 50th anniversary. It is in the Top 10 Christmas songs, and has been herd by 3.8 billion people. It contains only 19 words, 6 in Spanish […]
Love Came Down at Christmas
#1 daughter brought the Littles over yesterday and we played for a while. The Littlest made up a hilarious game of putting on and taking off my glasses. It totally cracked her up. A happy song for today, the last […]
Christmas Waltz
I’m sharing “The Christmas Waltz” today as we get ready for the last Sunday of Advent and the beginning of the Christmas festivities. Today I’m volunteering at the church, handing out communion element and accepting food donations. I also hope […]
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Here’s a sweet song that I used to sing with my daughters in church. It was written by R. Fisher Boyce. It was published in 1940. Boyce and his wife had 11 children, of whom only five lived to adulthood. […]
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
Continuing with my theme of the songs I don’t like for the pandemic… I guess I had intended to give that up, but the song “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” has been on my mind a lot […]
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
This morning’s Lessons and Carols was wonderful. It included another of my favorite songs, “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming.” I can balance the songs I dislike with beautiful ones. Because, really, it doesn’t make sense to listen to bad […]
Let It Snow
I guess this year I am featuring songs I dislike in the Pandemic Musical Advent Calendar. However, this is Frank Sinatra, which definitely improves the experience. “Let It Snow” was written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, during a California […]
Ready the Way
I have learned that my out of state kids are not coming for Christmas, which is the right behavior for the pandemic but it’s still making me a little sad. I have four local grandchildren and their parents, all of […]
Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying
Philipp Nicolai wrote “Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying” during the bubonic plague. 1300 of his parishioners had recently died of it, and Nicolai was conducting 30 funerals a day. Clearly, we should dust it off and bring it out […]