Word: songfulness
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...Christmas specials on radio since 1936. Then in 1942 he introduced Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in the film Holiday Inn. Tapping into the nostalgia that GIs at war felt for their first Christmas away from home (as did another Bing hit, "I'll Be Home for Christmas"), the song stayed at #1 on the hit parade for seven weeks. Reissued each year thereafter, it topped the charts again in 1945 and 1946, and was in the top 15 eight other years. In the mid-'40s Crosby recorded eight Christmas songs issued in an "album" of four 78 rpm discs...
...Crosby had "White Christmas," but the singing cowboy from Tioga, Texas, scored three huge Christmas hits in three years: "Here Comes Santa Claus" (#9 in 1947), "Rudolph" (#1 in 1949) and "Frosty the Snowman" (#7 in 1950). These were part of the Christmas novelty-song trend, which included "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." (Johnny Marks, who wrote "Rudolph," rode another trend in 1957 with the not-very-rockin' "Jingle Bell Rock.") This album, reissued in 2000, lassos together all of Autry's seasonal singles...
...pianist whose voice was too lyrical and intimate to be shut up. He put that silky, highly palatized tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
Maybe, as the famous Whiffenpoof Song would have it, the sons of Wasp privilege are just lost little lambs. But since some of them spent their postgraduate years founding the CIA, Robert De Niro's finely tuned film wonders if their arrogant sense of entitlement subverted this nation's best, most idealistic impulses. Good question, good movie: very dark, very well written and acted--and very, very worrying...
THREE 6 MAFIA had more fun than anyone else at the 2006 Oscars. The rappers gave the night's most energetic song performance--It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, from the film Hustle and Flow. Then they won for Best Song, which led host Jon Stewart to observe, "Martin Scorsese, zero Oscars. Three 6 Mafia...