What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

sung by rufus wainwright




sung by nancy wilson


sung by diana krall


enthusiasm of jim carrey


U2 says happy "new years day"

the new year - death cab for cutie


happy new year! - abba

MUSE

In parallel with my Sounds of Science blog entry, here is my extension of MUSE, a great band with a mix of fast and slow, rock and piano.

This first one has a great and beautiful piano interlude, so make sure you at least catch that part of the song...

BUTTERFLIES & HURRICANES


SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE

Poor Grandma...

Dr. Elmo's Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer


sung by The Irish Rovers

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign."
— Christina Rossetti

"Oh Come All Ye Faithful" sung by Jason Mraz


sung by Luther Vandross


sung by Third Day


Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas."
~ Pope John XXIII

Merry Christmas Baby! sung by The Ramones

'Twas the Night Before Christmas...

"Knowing what we know, how much more do we want to give Him something? But He seems to have everything. Well, not quite. He doesn’t have you with Him again forever, not yet. I hope you are touched by the feelings of His heart enough to sense how much He wants to know you are coming home to Him. You can’t give that gift to Him in one day, or one Christmas, but you could show Him today that you are on the way. You could pray. You could read a page of scripture. You could keep a commandment. If you have already done these, there is still something left to give. All around you are people He loves but can help only through you and me. One of the sure signs that we have accepted the gift of the Savior’s atonement is that we give gifts to others."
— Henry B. Eyring (Because He First Loved Us)



The Osmond Family and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing Silent Night

From my Childhood, and for All Kids...

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
~ Washington Irving (1783-1859), American short-story writer and essayist.

Burl Ives' Frosty the Snowman


A Holly Jolly Christmas


Vince Guaraldi, Peanuts' Christmas Time is Here


It's The Most WOnderful Time of The Year


Spike Jones' All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (for Fayth)


The Carpenter's


Here Comes Santa Claus


Santa Claus is Coming to Town


Perry Como's Home for the HOlidays


Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree


Jingle Bell Rock


The Osmond's

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

"We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood." ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York

"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority." ~W.J. Cameron

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! by Vaughn Monroe

sung by Dean Martin


sung by Michael Buble


sung by Nancy Wilson


Baby, It's Cold Outside, sung by Doris Day and Bing Crosby


sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan


sung by Zooey Deschanel