Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

She released a Christmas album called For Christmas with Love ( recorded in Hollywood, California ) and later signed with A & M Records, releasing more albums including, A Gift of Song and Climb Ev ' ry Mountain.

*" The Christmas Song " begins with the phrase " Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

Garland debuted the standards " The Trolley Song " and " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", which both became hits after the film was released.

The American Film Institute ranked the film 10th on AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals ; two songs from the film made AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs (" The Trolley Song " at # 26 and " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas " at # 76 ).

The flip side of this single was Louise Mandrell and RC Bannon singing " Christmas Is Just a Song for Us This Year ".

Songs covered by Lost Dogs on an album or in concert include Bob Dylan's " Lord, Protect My Child ," Leonard Cohen's " If It Be Your Will ," The Beatles ' " I'm A Loser ," " The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late )", and Stephen Foster's " Hard Times, Come Again No More.

The title alludes to " The Christmas Song ", also known as " Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire ".

The album included 11 new recordings, featuring covers of Joni Mitchell's " River ", Gordon Lightfoot's " Song for a Winter's Night ", and John Lennon's " Happy Xmas ( War Is Over )", which she recorded with her outreach children and youth choir, and seasonal favourites: " Christmas Time Is Here ", " O Little Town of Bethlehem ", " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", " Silent Night ", " The First Noel ", and " Greensleeves ( What Child Is This?

In 1963, the group recorded two albums for Newtown, a Christmas album titled Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells and Blue Bells, and a faux-live album ( compiled from their studio recordings with an added audience track ), Sweethearts of the Apollo, taking from a title giving to them after the group successfully performed at the Apollo Theater, however the group failed to match their live success with any following records and left Newtown for more established Cameo-Parkway Records, releasing the top 40 hit, " Down the Aisle ( The Wedding Song )".

* Sing a Song of Christmas – The Ames Brothers

Two of his hits were " The Song of the Sewer ", sung in character as Norton, and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas ", a spoken-word record in which Carney, accompanied only by a jazz drummer, recited the famous Yuletide poem in syncopation.

Before Christmas 1999, GTR released Christmas All Over The World, his first seasonal album, with half being Christmas standards such as " Jingle Bells ", " White Christmas ", " Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer ", " What Are You Doing New Year's Eve ", " The Christmas Song ( Chestnuts Roasting )", and " Joy to the World ", on which his daughter Elizabeth accompanied him.

Recently the ' Black Country Alphabet and Black Country Christmas Song ' by the Black Country Tee-Shirts company have helped to demonstrate the accent and dialect further across the country.

The album also features one of the few Partridge Family recordings featuring Shirley Jones as the lead singer (" The Christmas Song ").

# " The Christmas Song "

Carmichael's war time songs ( most with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster ) included " My Christmas Song for You ", " Don't Forget to Say ' No ' Baby ", " Billy-a-Dick ", " The Army of Hippocrates ", " Cranky Old Yank ", " Eager Beaver ", " No More Toujours l ' Amour ", " Morning Glory ", and the never completed " Hitler Blues ".

" The Christmas Song "-India. Arie & Stevie Wonder

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

She followed up " Behind The Eyes " with A Christmas To Remember, her third Christmas album, in 1999.

Nintendo had no problems supplying retailers with the Game Boy for the Christmas season while Atari Corp. only managed limited distribution of their Lynx by year's end.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

* The Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

After Christmas, Lee ordered Stuart to conduct a raid north of the Rappahannock River to " penetrate the enemy's rear, ascertain if possible his position & movements, & inflict upon him such damage as circumstances will permit.

Lee recorded the song, " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by Hank Garland.

In 2008, her recording of " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " marked 50 years as a holiday standard, and in February 2009, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Lee a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

Jones was in a long-term relationship with bassist Lee Alexander from 2000 until they split at Christmas 2007.

Lee Shelton ( March 16, 1865-March 11, 1912 ) was a black carriage driver and pimp convicted of murdering William " Billy " Lyons on Christmas night, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a hit for Gene Autry and others ), " I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day " ( first recorded by Bing Crosby ), " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " ( a hit for Brenda Lee ), " A Holly Jolly Christmas " ( recorded by the Quinto Sisters and later by Burl Ives ), Sliver and Gold ( for Burl Ives ) and " Run Rudolph Run " ( recorded by Chuck Berry ).

She was a regular on The Benny Hill Show ( as one of " Hill's Angels "), putting her experience as a dancer in the famous " Christmas in Heaven " scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and appeared as a tourist with a baby in the David Lee Roth music video for the song " California Girls ," but struggled for several years to establish herself.

After his release on parole, Kenny kidnaps Maxwell on Christmas Eve and takes him to Loretta and Iggy's apartment Loretta Lee tries saving Max but ends up getting strangled by Kenneth, though she survives.

When Dawn receives a Christmas present from Tim encouraging her to hold on to her dream of becoming an illustrator, she returns to the Christmas party without Lee, where she and Tim kiss and finally become a couple.

Since her last acting appearance in 1999, she has worked as an assistant to Jamie Lee in the films Freaky Friday and Christmas with the Kranks.

Peters and Lee had a popular TV series of their own Meet Peters and Lee, including several Christmas specials made by ATV.

" The Peters and Lee Story " was one Christmas special made for 27 December 1975 which starred Mike and Bernie Winters, Cleo Lane and Aiden J Harvey who won New Faces in 1974.

Zemurray contracted two mercenaries, Guy " Machine Gun " Molony and Lee Christmas, who along with Bonilla devised a plan to overthrow the Honduras government.

In November 2009, Lee commenced an Asia tour with stops in Taipei, Tokyo and Shanghai and concluded it just after Christmas and held a fan meeting, Andy Farewell Party-Bye for now a week before his enlistment.

In 1998 she wrote a children's book, The Christmas Note, with Cathie Pelletier ; 2000 her childhood, it received praise from a number of authors, including Lee Smith, Rebecca Wells, and Terry Kay.

She also starred in Snap Decision ( 2001 ) with Mare Winningham, Raising Helen ( 2004 ) as Kate Hudson's older sister, and Christmas with the Kranks ( 2004 ) as Jamie Lee Curtis's best friend.

Lee has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as A Night On the Water ( 1998 ), Error in Judgment ( 1998 ), Chain of Command ( 2000 ), Nurse Betty ( 2000 ), This Girl's Life ( 2003 ), Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure ( 2003 ), and Ferrari in The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ).

Produced by Roy Bittan, the original album-featuring Chicago's interpretations of well-known Christmas classics plus one original tune ( co-penned by Lee Loughnane )-was very well received upon its release in August 1998, peaking at # 47 in the US and going gold during a stay of 7 weeks on the charts.

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