I Know we have not "encountered" Christmas and Chanukah yet but one tradition I follow is to post on the Sunday before Christmas eve and earlier if Chanukah which starts this year the eve of Christmas Day, falls sooner, my verified (meaning all the links work) Songs to Ring In The New Year playlist to ring in New Year’s eve. As most know, with …
Each Thanksgiving I check to see when I blogged the prior year about music for the holiday season. That we often begin to hear that music when families gather the last Thursday in November is what brings my Holiday Music Playlist to mind. The only thing that delays that blog is the need to timely report this year’s Gotham Green Award® winners an …
As I posted last year at this time and for several before that, holidays-themed music takes hold after Thanksgiving; sometimes even during and before. The holidays also bring lighting and I enjoy seeing those decorations. Sometimes we take eve rides listening to the music and checking out the displays in nabes known to have more than their fair sha …
It’s that time again; people plan holiday parties. Gotham’s holiday party takes place virtually on Tuesday and a trio of in-person gatherings take place Thursday in Manhattan, and the following week on Tuesday on Long Island and Thursday in Westchester. It also means holiday music and my “open-source” list of holiday tunes grew this year to 116 son …
As the week began I received an email from my friend and Gotham colleague Amparo Connors who runs an employee placement firm (temps and permanent); Amparo reached out to those she usually sends holiday/season’s greetings/ new year wishes concerning the intended token. Our discussion led me to suggest that topic for the joint meeting of Gotham Queen …
In these pandemic plagued times where most in person holiday gatherings shrink to households and some enlarge by virtual means, why not add some music to help brighten our moods. This year’s version of Happy Holidays in Song now features 103 songs, albeit one video required a search for a replacement by the same artist (ask off list please but I …
Light up this holiday season with song. Continuing a Gotham tradition inspired by Friday's blogger (and which preceded this blog; used to just be a post to Fredslist), please find and enjoy the latest version of Happy Holidays in Song. In three weeks some of us start with lighting candles. Three eves later, the holiday that inspires the bulk of …
One starts this eve, another in just a few days after three weeks pass; others also this month too (Mitch covered it some yesterday. And so to light up the days ahead and ring in the season I release an updated version (all links work at time of posting) of Happy Holidays in song Happy Christmas – John Lennon This Is Christmas – Luther Vandros …
One starts in two days, another in two weeks; others also this month too. And so to ring in the season I release an updated version (all links work at time of posting) of Happy Holidays in song Enjoy! Happy Xmas – John Lennon This Is Xmas – Luther Vandross The Xmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) – Nat King Cole The Xmas Song – M …
Time for a trip down memory lane. A story from Parade magazine: Christmas in Boston, 1963 “John F. Kennedy had been shot a month earlier in Dallas, Texas, and the world was like an ice-ball. It wasn’t just Boston or the Catholics that loved JFK. The entire world loved him. Everyone was sad, and now it was Christmas. I had my eye on a toy “Supercar” …
Being Jewish, I do not celebrate Christmas. But, my family generally spends Christmas every year in the same traditional way. If we’re not on vacation, you can find us at a movie theatre and, thereafter, at home eating Chinese food. I love family traditions. I firmly believe that they give our children a stronger sense of family and a sense of sta …
