* The first Christmas special featured the pair sitting in front of the television providing crude commentary on various aspects of Christmas, and commenting on Christmas-themed music videos from various artists.

" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

" Chaplin's early years in music hall allowed him to see stage comedians at work ; he also attended the Christmas pantomimes at Drury Lane, where he studied the art of clowning.

The early Christmas music was Latin in origin.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

In late 2004, he released the EP Merry F #%$ in ' Christmas, which included a mix of new music, previously unreleased recordings, and some tracks from Lock ' n Load.

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

He also released three albums of Christmas music with his own band.

In 1998, the group Next released " Too Close ", in which the music of " Christmas Rappin '" was sampled.

( Other Greek mourning customs include not playing music, not entertaining guests, and using no festive decorations, e. g. on Christmas, during the customary year-long mourning period ).

Several hours of music were prepared for it, including Bach fugues, all of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Christmas carols, and numerous popular songs.

In addition, stylized Christmas music will play during game play on Christmas.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.

Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice, a Christmas 2007 multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by Alan John.

During the holiday season, suds pour out of the lamp posts to replicate snow while Christmas music streams from the sidewalks.

Noted jazz musician David Benoit has often credited Guaraldi and the original Peanuts Christmas special music for his interest in jazz.

The Choir now records with Hyperion Records, and has released four discs to date with the label: one of the music of Mendelssohn, a collection of music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Christmas at St John's, a recording of the choral and vocal music of Jongen and Peeters and most recently, a collection of the music of Bairstow.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

* Phillip Borsos, best known for his films The Mean Season ( 1985 ) and One Magic Christmas ( 1985 )

Connick's best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas, which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

He called it " the best ever Christmas box ".

He had fourteen stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison, but was becoming best known as " O. Henry ", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story " Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking " in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine.

The Big Three however maintained a good healthy status for the ' 10 part of the season, and went on to obtain the league's best starting record of 25 – 4 by Christmas Eve.

The film has become a number one critic's choice over the years ; many of them title the film the best Christmas film ever.

He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, and as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Clive Donner's adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

He is best remembered for the television series The Morecambe & Wise Show, which for some of its Christmas episodes gained UK viewing figures of over twenty-eight million people.

Holt's Christmas lights are seen by many people as the best in the county and bring people to the town from near and far through November and December.

* Christmas Parade, " Santa Claus and dozens of floats, both home-made and professional, our parade is small town life at its best "

Doing their best to replicate structures of the old church wherever possible, builders were able to construct the current church structure for a Christmas Day 1924 opening.

Valley is the hometown of Gail Rock, who used it as the basis for the small town Clear Rock in her Addie Mills books, of which " The House Without a Christmas Tree " is best known.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

In the old days people carried these wafers from house to house wishing their neighbors a Merry Christmas.

He has produced numerous movies, television shows, and specials through his production company, Apostle ; these include Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin ' Shorties, the stand-up special Denis Leary's Merry F #$% in ' Christmas, and the movie Blow.

Father Christmas is said to wear ( these days ) a bright red suit, but in Victorian and Tudor times he wore a bright green suit.

Christian hymns are often written with special or seasonal themes and these are used on holy days such as Christmas, Easter and the Feast of All Saints, or during particular seasons such as Advent and Lent.

Some communications, transport and logistics facilities, however, were converted for civilian use and it is due to these installations that Christmas Island came to serve as the administrative center for the Line Islands.

Many of these states have selling seasons around Independence Day and / or Christmas and New Year's Eve.

He explained in his 16, 000 word pamphlet Let My People Go, written over Christmas 1942, that between one and two million Jews had already been murdered in Nazi controlled Europe and " unless something effective is done, within a very few months these six million Jews will all be dead.

Of these, the two most important are Christmas, which is the Feast of Christ's nativity, and Easter, which marks the anniversary of Christ's resurrection.

Other common celebrations and religious or national holidays such as birthdays, Halloween, and Christmas are not celebrated because they believe that these continue to involve " false religious beliefs or activities.

Several of these homes are open for tours, arranged by the Parker County Heritage Society, during the Christmas season.

Originally Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the typical Christmas mistletoes of Europe and North America ( the genera Viscum and Phoradendron ) belong to the family Santalaceae ; previously these two genera and their closest relatives were in a separate family, Viscaceae, which has been merged into Santalaceae.

In addition to these traditional carols, there are some popular secular Christmas songs from mid-19th century America that pre-date the secular Christmas songs of the 20th century.

The largest portion of these songs in some way describes or reminds of the Christmas traditions, how Americans tend to celebrate the holiday, i. e., with caroling, mistletoe, exchanging of presents, a Christmas tree, feasting, jingle bells, etc.

One of these is the story of the enigmatic Joe Christmas.

* As part of a larger paradigm in which common observances were often discarded, Armstrong rejected traditional holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween and the celebration of birthdays, stating that all of these were of pagan origin.

Many of these Decca recordings have been used in such television shows and Hollywood movies as Homefront, ER, The Brink's Job, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Swing Shift, Raggedy Man, Summer of ' 42, Slaughterhouse-Five, Maria's Lovers, Harlem Nights, In Dreams, Murder in the First, L. A.

Usually they are closed on New Year's Day, mid summers day and Christmas Day, but some are open also these days.

In 1970, these recordings were compiled onto an LP released via their fan club called From Then to You ( U. S. title: The Beatles ' Christmas Album ).

The most famous of these enterprises is probably the UNICEF Christmas card program, launched in 1949, which selects artwork from internationally known artists for card reproduction.

By putting all these ideas together on his return from the Paris family holiday, the Christmas Cracker was born complete with a surprise novelty gift, a trinket, a tissue paper hat, a snap to make a bang when pulled apart and a piece of paper with a joke or motto-a maxim of appropriate character to express a principle or ideal suited to the occasion.

Polly would attempt to create a family Christmas each year, if only in a hotel, but Harry regularly boycotted these events, making it clear that he would be looking for flirtations instead.