Christmas
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With fringe Christmas songs I mean songs which are not Christmas songs per se, but more Christmas-sy than for example Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s—”Power of Love.” The first one is by All About Eve-“December,” the song comes from their second album “Scarlet and Other Stories,” released in 1989. “There’s a Victorian tin, I keep my
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Every year lasted too longWith Easter bunnies, birthday cards and seaside outings in the summerOnly to break the longGap of time that stretched between the one and the other Christmas Christmas in the sixties was fineWith candles, goodies, presents, and wine“Peace on Earth” was real, it seemedAnd “Love” a word as yet not obscene, no
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I know I am going to lose a lot of credibility here, and probably rightfully so. This song has appeared on the worst Christmas songs list for several years in a row. It was also covered by Dutch singer Rene Froger, that alone should be enough for me to hate the song. But I can’t
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These are just a few impressions of Christmas during World War II. The above photo is of a Christmas party in a German hospital (Lazarett) on 20 December 1941. Sisters of the Red Cross wanted to surprise the wounded German soldiers on Christmas Eve and diligently practice their Christmas Carol. Dutch soldiers during the mobilization
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Today marks the 15th anniversary of Dan Fogelberg’s death. I thought it would be appropriate to remember him with one of my favourite Christmas songs. “Same Old Lang Syne” is a song written and sung by Dan Fogelberg released as a single in 1980. The narrator is reunited with an old flame at a grocery
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Since we are currently in Advent time, I reckon it’s safe to start talking about Christmas again. My all-time favourite Christmas song is Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. my all-time favourite Christmas song. It’s hard to believe that they recorded it 45 years ago. It’s not just a song
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One thing that always surprises me in any war, particularly World War II, is that so many aspects of normal life still happened. The Dutch celebrate Sinterklaas (St Nicholas aka Santa Claus) on December 5, but he usually arrives in the country in mid-November. This is one of the celebrations which continued during World War
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At first glance when you look at the picture it doesn’t appear to be extraordinary. There is an officer clearly giving a speech. There are a few Christmas trees at the back so it appears to be some sort of Christmas do. The officer is Albert Konrad Gemmeker he was a German SS-Obersturmführer and camp
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Most radio station are flooding the airwaves with Christmas songs at this stage, and there is nothing wrong with that. I love Christmas and especially love the music that goes with it. However I do find that the same songs get played every year, there are songs which get very little airplay but are just
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