Hello comics fans! We interrupt our Christmas covers feature to bring you holiday music via this year's Christmas Mix! If you're tired of the same old Christmas songs over and over, this is the mix for you!
Hello comics fans! We interrupt our Christmas covers feature to bring you holiday music via this year's Christmas Mix! If you're tired of the same old Christmas songs over and over, this is the mix for you!
Hello comics fans! We interrupt our Christmas covers feature to bring you holiday music via this year's Christmas Mix! If you're tired of the same old Christmas songs over and over, this is the mix for you!
Here it is: My annual (virtual) mix tape of songs for the holiday season!
Finishing up my little tour of Christmas music with one of my favorite carols: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Chances are you probably know this song as "Carol of the Bells," but that is an adaptation of an older Ukrainian carol "Shchedryk," or "The Little Swallow."
Wham!'s "Last Christmas" was released in 1984, at the height of the British pop duo's popularity. The song was popular for a couple of years around Christmastime, but eventually faded away to seemingly join nearly every other holiday original by popular music acts in the dustbin of history.
"I Saw Three Ships" is a traditional English carol. Here it is performed "Pirate Style" by pianist/violinist Jennifer Thomas. Pirates and Christmas don't really go together, but here it works!
Here's family vocal group Cimorelli singing "Jingle Bells," a cappella and in a minor key. Which seems like it would be really hard; not that singing in minor is hard per se, but in my experience signing a song in minor that you are so used to singing in major is super difficult!
Today we have two advent carols, performed by The Petersens, a family bluegrass band. "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" features a haunting clear lead vocal and tight family harmonies, while their version of "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" has some interesting rhythmic variants with duples against the 3/4 rhythm.
Something new this year: today and the next eleven days I'm highlighting a Christmas music video!