The Top 25 most performed ASCAP holiday songs are listed below. Each song includes songwriter credits, and cites the most popular artist version played on radio.
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Written by: Mel Tormé, Robert Wells
Performed by: Nat "King" Cole
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Written by: Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
Performed by: The Pretenders
Winter Wonderland
Written by: Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
Performed by: Eurythmics
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Written by: Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Performed by: Bruce Springsteen
White Christmas
Written by: Irving Berlin
Performed by: Bing Crosby
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Written by: Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Performed by: Andy Williams
Jingle Bell Rock
Written by: Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross Boothe
Performed by: Bobby Helms
Little Drummer Boy
Written by: Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone
Performed by: The Harry Simeone Chorale & Orchestra
Sleigh Ride
Written by: Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
Performed by: The Ronettes
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Written by: Johnny Marks
Performed by: Gene Autry
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Written by: Edward Pola, George Wyle
Performed by: Andy Williams
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Written by: Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram
Performed by: Vanessa Williams
Silver Bells
Written by: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
Performed by: Kenny G
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Written by: Johnny Marks
Performed by: Brenda Lee
Feliz Navidad
Written by: José Feliciano
Performed by: José Feliciano
Blue Christmas
Written by: Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson
Performed by: Elvis Presley
Frosty The Snowman
Written by: Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins
Performed by: The Ronettes
A Holly Jolly Christmas
Written by: Johnny Marks
Performed by: Burl Ives
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Written by: Meredith Willson
Performed by: Johnny Mathis
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Written by: Tommie Connor (PRS)
Performed by: John Mellencamp
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
Written by: Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
Performed by: Elvis Presley
Carol Of The Bells
Written by: Peter J. Wilhousky, Mykola Leontovich
Performed by: John Tesh and the Christmas Symphony Orchestra
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed the World)
Written by: Midge Ure (PRS), Bob Geldof (PRS)
Performed by: Band Aid
(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
Written by: Bob Allen, Al Stillman
Performed by: The Carpenters
Santa Baby
Written by: Joan Ellen Javits, Philip Springer, Tony Springer
Performed by: Madonna
Some facts about the Top 25 ASCAP Holiday Songs:
Oldest songs:
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "Winter Wonderland" (both 1934)
Newest song:
"Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed the World)" (1984)
Most recorded Holiday song:
"White Christmas" with well over 500 versions in dozens of languages.
Songs introduced in Film and Television:
"White Christmas" in Holiday Inn (1942)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
"Silver Bells" in The Lemon Drop Kid (1950)
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" in TV special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1962)
Writer with most top Holiday songs:
Johnny Marks with three - "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," and "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
"Sleigh Ride" is the only Holiday song written originally as an instrumental piece for a symphony orchestra. The Boston Pops Orchestra gave the first performance in a concert conducted by Arthur Fiedler at Symphony Hall in Boston, May 4, 1948. Mills Music published it that same year. The Boston Pops Orchestra recorded it in June of 1949. Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1949.
River, Sarah McLachlan, is a new Christmas favorite to add to the list. i love her voice.
Happy Hanukkah Adam!
Christmas is All Around, Love Actually style.
Bing and Bowie sing Little Drummer Boy.
Sing it Dean!
I love acoustic Jason, even in Christmas.
Who can forget the Carpenters?
Nuttin For Christmas
Oh, Jeff, you just know how to bring out the Christmas spirit.
Angels We Have Heard On High.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
I love Christmas music.
Christmas is just around the corner. The 25 days of Christmas is just about to begin. What better way to bring the Christmas spirit in than through music. These are some to share.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Catching up on favorites in 2008
I honestly don't remember (shocker) when this was actually released, but i do know it is by far my favorite 007 movie, and definately an extremely HOT Bond, James Bond.
Casino Royale trailer.
Best Chase scene.
The new 007, Quantum of Solace, every bit worth the wait and the hype.
This is a great movie by and LDS writer/director about the Highland Rugby team in UT called Forever Strong. It is by the same writer/director for Of Saints and Soldiers. I got to see the movie screening. I loved it.
Dan in Real Life is another movie I am not sure when it was released but I saw it this summer with Tennille, Justine, Mark, Mom at the family reunion in Okoboji. I loved it. I always say that real life is better than fiction and this movie is just about that! Ha! The title even fits perfectly and the events of the movie are better than fiction, and I am sure it is based on true events!
My favortie Batman movies are the ones with Christian Bale, starting with Batman Begins. The second movie, Dark Knight, was amazing and contriversial since Heath Ledger died from complications of the perscription drugs he took during filming to truely get the essence of the Joker's caracter. It is rather sad to go to that extreme, but never the less it is a phenomenal movie.
I watched the Sex and the City movie which was a huge hit to all the SATC fans. I never followed the series, but I had seen a couple shows that were enjoyable. After seeing the movie, treated by Luce, I decided to watch the entire series so I could follow the nuances of the movie and characters better. It was good, and I love sexual innuendos, but I can't say that i am a die hard Sex and the City fan. Oh and I watched all seasons on DVD within 2 weeks. Total marathon.
BUT, the year has not ended yet.
Casino Royale trailer.
Best Chase scene.
The new 007, Quantum of Solace, every bit worth the wait and the hype.
This is a great movie by and LDS writer/director about the Highland Rugby team in UT called Forever Strong. It is by the same writer/director for Of Saints and Soldiers. I got to see the movie screening. I loved it.
Dan in Real Life is another movie I am not sure when it was released but I saw it this summer with Tennille, Justine, Mark, Mom at the family reunion in Okoboji. I loved it. I always say that real life is better than fiction and this movie is just about that! Ha! The title even fits perfectly and the events of the movie are better than fiction, and I am sure it is based on true events!
My favortie Batman movies are the ones with Christian Bale, starting with Batman Begins. The second movie, Dark Knight, was amazing and contriversial since Heath Ledger died from complications of the perscription drugs he took during filming to truely get the essence of the Joker's caracter. It is rather sad to go to that extreme, but never the less it is a phenomenal movie.
I watched the Sex and the City movie which was a huge hit to all the SATC fans. I never followed the series, but I had seen a couple shows that were enjoyable. After seeing the movie, treated by Luce, I decided to watch the entire series so I could follow the nuances of the movie and characters better. It was good, and I love sexual innuendos, but I can't say that i am a die hard Sex and the City fan. Oh and I watched all seasons on DVD within 2 weeks. Total marathon.
BUT, the year has not ended yet.
Updates on fav video clips
My babies will laugh like this.
I love the show So You Think You Can Dance and this is one of my favorite clips.
Here is another one.
In fact this last summer was such an amazing season of So You Think You Can Dance it was hard to choose a favorite dancer to root for to win.
Nickleback's Rockstar is a great song and the video has a lot of celebrity cameos. I like that it is a farce of how celebs can take the fame and money way too far.
I love this song and for the longest time I had no idea who sang the song let alone what the name of the song is...but of course this is not the first time that has happened and it wont' be the last.
I love this song Mercy by Duffy, but all of the official videos have the embeded url disabled with stinks 'cause I can't share it. Check out the related links.
Here is the same song from the So You Think You Can Dance.
Here are some of my favorite clips from Dancing With The Stars.
Julianne Hough and her bro Derek are phenomenal dancers!
Apollo and Julianne were amazing in so many of their dances, but this was definately one of the most memorable for me. Check out all the rest of their dances on this season.
Julianne is an amazing teacher and performer. This is one of my favorites ofher and Helio. I think this was her 2nd season to win the DWTS.
Here is a favorite of Jullianne and Cody on the current season of DWTS.
This current season of DWTS, Derek and Brook are my favorite's and I am rooting for them.
Samba
Rumba
Quickstep
Can you tell I love ballroom dance? I can't get enough.
I love the show So You Think You Can Dance and this is one of my favorite clips.
Here is another one.
In fact this last summer was such an amazing season of So You Think You Can Dance it was hard to choose a favorite dancer to root for to win.
Nickleback's Rockstar is a great song and the video has a lot of celebrity cameos. I like that it is a farce of how celebs can take the fame and money way too far.
I love this song and for the longest time I had no idea who sang the song let alone what the name of the song is...but of course this is not the first time that has happened and it wont' be the last.
I love this song Mercy by Duffy, but all of the official videos have the embeded url disabled with stinks 'cause I can't share it. Check out the related links.
Here is the same song from the So You Think You Can Dance.
Here are some of my favorite clips from Dancing With The Stars.
Julianne Hough and her bro Derek are phenomenal dancers!
Apollo and Julianne were amazing in so many of their dances, but this was definately one of the most memorable for me. Check out all the rest of their dances on this season.
Julianne is an amazing teacher and performer. This is one of my favorites ofher and Helio. I think this was her 2nd season to win the DWTS.
Here is a favorite of Jullianne and Cody on the current season of DWTS.
This current season of DWTS, Derek and Brook are my favorite's and I am rooting for them.
Samba
Rumba
Quickstep
Can you tell I love ballroom dance? I can't get enough.
Vissicitudes of life and giving thanks.
It is long over due that I post to my blog. I see blogging as a digital journal to record things about my life for my posterity. I wonder what the technology I use on a daily basis will look like to my posterity.
My pre-Thanksgiving marathon nap during re-run DVD's has finally caught up with me and I am without the heavy eyes of sleep, despite the tryptophan turkey coma I should be in. Perhaps, it also has to do with the silly airmatress that has a hateful leak, and although the cold comforts the floor offers may be good from a chiropractors perspective, I miss my bed, and sleep. So I take this time to relfect and to write.
Life is fragile. Life is fantastic and fragile.
I am grateful for Thanksgiving. Not only do I love the holidays, but I love the time it gives to break from the mundane and busy of daily life to slow down and spend time creating memories with family. It also gives a time to reflect on all I am grateful for. I, for one, am not grateful enough to my God for all of the abundance in my life. I am not grateful enough to the important people in my life. I am not grateful enough for the trials I have in my life, and how they stretch me and allow me to progress.
So much has transpired since my last post. It almost feels like a lifetime as sped by because of the past year's vissicitudes. Had you asked me where I would be this time of year last Christmas, I wouldn't have even been in the ball park. I can't even remember if before my last post I even knew that I would be moving to Huntington Beach mid Feburary, 2008. I think I was aware of the possibility, but I don't think I knew it would be for sure. I 100% know I didn't know that I would have to look for another teaching position because the state budget cuts only allowed Irvine Unified to offer a two-thirds contract for the 2008-2009 school year and I needed a full time teaching position. I had no incline that the school I passed everyday once I moved to HB to get to the my 405 commute to Irvine would be the high school I am currently employed. I had no idea that I would have a pay cut with this new school, of which I learned only the day I signed the contract, and I then thought there would be no way I would return the next year until I found out I could take 24 credits of classes I taught at the local community college to move over on the pay scale next year. I had no clue that I would be blind sided with a 30-day, turned 60-day, notice to move less than a month after starting a new school. I had no clue what wirlwind of a trial that would become for the next 6 weeks, and that now it is almost a month that I have been in a new place, still in HB. Wow. Life certainly is nothing of what I would imagine.
Even the economy has made a crazy turn. Political frenzy from the Yes on Prop 8 campain to the presidential campains, and now a new President Elect, Barrack Obama.
One thing my dad always reminds me and what the scriptures teach, if we are living righteously we have nothing to worry about no matter how crazy things get in the world. It may not be easy but we have nothing to worry about. I know I worry too much, and I have been told so in blessings. I know that everything has worked out now that I am on the other side of the most recent trial that left me sleepless many nights during that wirlwind of a 6 weeks leading up to my current residence. Looking back, it was not easy and it may not be the situation I particulary want, but it all worked out. The Lord took care of me. he make sure, despite the ups and downs it took, that I am where I am supposed to be. My challenge is to accept His will and to press forward with faith and trust, and put off the natural.
I know I have much to be grateful for. I am grateful for the time here on earth to grow and progress and to apply the infinite Atonement my Savior provided so that I have a chance to change and repent and become more through Him than I could possibly make of myself.
My pre-Thanksgiving marathon nap during re-run DVD's has finally caught up with me and I am without the heavy eyes of sleep, despite the tryptophan turkey coma I should be in. Perhaps, it also has to do with the silly airmatress that has a hateful leak, and although the cold comforts the floor offers may be good from a chiropractors perspective, I miss my bed, and sleep. So I take this time to relfect and to write.
Life is fragile. Life is fantastic and fragile.
I am grateful for Thanksgiving. Not only do I love the holidays, but I love the time it gives to break from the mundane and busy of daily life to slow down and spend time creating memories with family. It also gives a time to reflect on all I am grateful for. I, for one, am not grateful enough to my God for all of the abundance in my life. I am not grateful enough to the important people in my life. I am not grateful enough for the trials I have in my life, and how they stretch me and allow me to progress.
So much has transpired since my last post. It almost feels like a lifetime as sped by because of the past year's vissicitudes. Had you asked me where I would be this time of year last Christmas, I wouldn't have even been in the ball park. I can't even remember if before my last post I even knew that I would be moving to Huntington Beach mid Feburary, 2008. I think I was aware of the possibility, but I don't think I knew it would be for sure. I 100% know I didn't know that I would have to look for another teaching position because the state budget cuts only allowed Irvine Unified to offer a two-thirds contract for the 2008-2009 school year and I needed a full time teaching position. I had no incline that the school I passed everyday once I moved to HB to get to the my 405 commute to Irvine would be the high school I am currently employed. I had no idea that I would have a pay cut with this new school, of which I learned only the day I signed the contract, and I then thought there would be no way I would return the next year until I found out I could take 24 credits of classes I taught at the local community college to move over on the pay scale next year. I had no clue that I would be blind sided with a 30-day, turned 60-day, notice to move less than a month after starting a new school. I had no clue what wirlwind of a trial that would become for the next 6 weeks, and that now it is almost a month that I have been in a new place, still in HB. Wow. Life certainly is nothing of what I would imagine.
Even the economy has made a crazy turn. Political frenzy from the Yes on Prop 8 campain to the presidential campains, and now a new President Elect, Barrack Obama.
One thing my dad always reminds me and what the scriptures teach, if we are living righteously we have nothing to worry about no matter how crazy things get in the world. It may not be easy but we have nothing to worry about. I know I worry too much, and I have been told so in blessings. I know that everything has worked out now that I am on the other side of the most recent trial that left me sleepless many nights during that wirlwind of a 6 weeks leading up to my current residence. Looking back, it was not easy and it may not be the situation I particulary want, but it all worked out. The Lord took care of me. he make sure, despite the ups and downs it took, that I am where I am supposed to be. My challenge is to accept His will and to press forward with faith and trust, and put off the natural.
I know I have much to be grateful for. I am grateful for the time here on earth to grow and progress and to apply the infinite Atonement my Savior provided so that I have a chance to change and repent and become more through Him than I could possibly make of myself.
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