“Blue Christmas” is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley; it was first recorded by Doye O’Dell in 1948.Continue readingBlue Christmas

“Frosty the Snowman” is a popular Christmas song written by Walter “Jack” Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 andContinue readingFrosty the Snowman

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer created by Robert Lewis May. Rudolph is usually depicted as the ninth and youngest of Santa Claus’s reindeer, using his luminous redContinue readingRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

In 1946, Nat King Cole became the first recording artist to wrap his lush vocals around what would become a standard of the holiday season, “The Christmas Song.” But thatContinue readingThe Christmas Song

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs – you may not know it. “Christmas in Killarney” is an Irish-American Christmas song written by John Redmond, James Cavanaugh, and FrankContinue readingChristmas in Killarney

OK, for you young people: definitions:     “snitched”  (to tell on)  “penny slug”  a counterfeit coin that is used to make illegal purchases from a coin-operated device.  Of course, some ofContinue readingNothing for Christmas

There’s a song in the air! There’s a star in the sky!   Author: Josiah G. Holland (1872).  In the summer of 1904, Karl P. Harrington was assembling the new MethodistContinue readingThere’s a Song in the Air

“I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is a Christmas novelty song written by John Rox (1902–1957) and performed by Gayla Peevey (10 years old at the time) in 1953. Contents.Continue readingI Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

“All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” is a novelty Christmas song written in 1944 by Donald Yetter Gardner  while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown,Continue readingAll I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

Award-winning and critically acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter David Myles might be an undercover musicologist.   “Santa never brings me a banjo”  And I can never understand why  Every Christmas Eve I seeContinue readingSanta Never Brings Me a Banjo