Santa Claus Is Coming To Town has a solid claim to being THE original Christmas hit. Originally released in two formats in 1934 - vinyl and sheet music - it sold over 130,000 copies within 24 hours...
Behind the door of today's advent calendar lie two entries for the price of one, like when you open the door and get two chocolates, or bite into your KitKat and get solid chocolate with no wafer....
Today's calendar entry is one of the very few modern versions of Christmas songs worth adding to your playlist. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) was originally recorded in 1963 by Darlene Love and...
Today's calendar selection seems, at first listen, to be a song about two lovers separated by a distance of 2000 rather snowy miles. Possibly not their finest work in terms of lyrics ('2000 miles is...
As 2015 draws to a close, television is falling into a bit of a lull, between shows taking their midseason breaks or wrapping up their short seasons. In January, programming will resume with crowd...
I am going to come right out with this - I love this song. I think it’s one of the best Christmas songs ever. However, I’m aware that it gets a massive bashing every year and is, for some reason,...
Behind today's advent door lies a much happier tune! Stevie Wonder's What Christmas Means To Me is practically bursting with Christmas Motown joy. Released in 1967 on the Someday At Christmas Album...
Welcome to America, everything is terrible. Or, rather, not welcome to America, should a recent US proposal to radically modify the visa waiver programme successfully pass. All signs point to yes,...
Jona Lewie's protest song Stop The Cavalry has become a Christmas staple and takes us back to a less chirpy Christmas theme, but is nonetheless a Christmas classic of its own with an important...
Well, friends, it is December of 2015. And, in the midst of the shrieking, writhing, hyperbole-spewing horror show that is the Internet (expressed any opinions about the US election lately? No? Good...