Best Christmas Songs - All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue Okay I'm behind a few days. The weekend was slam-packed. Day 11 of my 25 Days of Christmas songs is "All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue" by Over the Rhine. All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue - Over the Rhine Over the Rhine is a Cincinnati, Ohio based band. They got their name from the Cincinnati, Ohio neighborhood Over-the-Rhine. Makes sense. They started out as a [...]
Best Christmas Songs - "Just a Sad Xmas" I'm heading into the vault for this one. I posted it last year so you know it deserves to be on your best Christmas songs playlist. "Just a Sad Xmas" by The Soul Duo is one of the finest soul Christmas tracks ever recorded. "Just a Sad Xmas" by Soul Duo Oh baby is this an out-of-sight song. Soul Duo was Ida Sands and Joe Webster, otherwise known as Little Ida and Little Daddy. [...]
The Best Christmas Songs - This Time Of Year I'm counting down what I think are the best Christmas songs in what I like to call 25 Days of Christmas songs. Today is day 9 and I bring you "This Time of Year" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. This Time Of Year This is a fantastic song with a great message, if you'll allow me to be sappy. Forget all the presents, the shopping, and all the other commercial crap that [...]
Best Christmas Songs - A Great Big Sled It's Day 7 of my yearly 25 Days of Christmas list, in which I list what I feel are the best Christmas songs to move your holiday a bit out of the old traditional chestnuts. A Great Big Sled - The Killers "A Great Big Sled" by The Killers is a -- excuse the pun -- a killer song. It was recorded in November 2006. The song features Toni Halliday, former lead vocalist of [...]
Best Christmas Songs - 8 Days of Hanukkah Well, Day 6 of my 25 Days of Christmas Songs, in which I count down what I think are the best Christmas songs, has to take a brief detour. Today is the first day of Hanukkah so I thought I'd go with a Hanukkah song today. Now Hanukkah isn't known for its songs. In fact, none of the Jewish holidays are known for catchy songs. So the pickings are pretty slim. But I found [...]
Best Christmas Songs -It's Christmas and You're Boring Me It's been a bust Saturday and I'm about to go to The Nutcracker so I'm picking yet another song from last year's list. But even if i wasn't busy this song would be on my Best Christmas Songs list for 2015. It's Christmas and You're Boring Me "It's Christmas and You're Boring Me" is a great song for everyone who's bitter at this time of year. The song is by the English duo [...]
Best Christmas Songs -Slashed Wrists This Christmas Since Fridays are my therapy days I thought I'd post a song I posted last year in my 25 Days of Christmas list. Slashed Wrists This Christmas - Gruff Rhys Oh sure, the holidays are all holly and jolly but where are the songs for the manic depressants? The songs for people like me who suffer from a mental illness or two? (Last count I was at four. I'm like a Vegas buffet of [...]
Best Christmas Songs -What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas It's Day 3 of my 25 Days of Christmas song list so that means it must be "What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas" by The Emotions. This gem is surely one of the best Christmas songs out there. What Do The Lonely Do at Christmas - The Emotions The Emotions is a girl group from Chicago made up of the Hutchinson sisters Wanda, Sheila, and Jeanette Hutchinson. Their first hit [...]
Best Christmas Songs -Merry Christmas Baby My famed "Twenty-five Days of Christmas" is back, baby. Each day I post a new song of what I consider to be the best Christmas songs. These are all songs that put an extra zip into my holiday spirit. This year I have a mix of returning songs and new entries. Let's get to the first one. Merry Christmas Baby "Merry Christmas Baby" is one of the best Christmas songs ever in the history of mankind. [...]
The Season for The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge Now that Halloween has come and gone, it's time to turn our attention to the ultimate holiday season of the year. That time between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve. And what better way to celebrate that glorious time than with a copy of my play The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. Start a new tradition by gathering the family by the fireplace and reading the play out loud. Your family will delight [...]
