Christmas party favors info

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003 (see 2003 in music). The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull’s own suitably-themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music.

Ian Anderson about the song Birthday Card at Christmas: ” My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…”

Track listing

1. “Birthday Card at Christmas” – 3:37
2. “Holly Herald” (Instrumental) – 4:16
3. “A Christmas Song” – 2:47
4. “Another Christmas Song” – 3:31
5. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (Instrumental) – 4:35
6. “Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow” – 3:37
7. “Last Man at the Party” – 4:48
8. “Weathercock” – 4:17
9. “Pavane” (Instrumental) – 4:19
10. “First Snow on Brooklyn” – 4:57
11. “Greensleeved” (Instrumental) – 2:39
12. “Fire at Midnight” – 2:26
13. “We Five Kings” (Instrumental) – 3:16
14. “Ring Out Solstice Bells” – 4:04
15. “Bourée” (Instrumental) – 4:25
16. “A Winter Snowscape” (Instrumental) – 4:57

External links

• (bonus dvd)
• Official Website
• Progressive Archives
• DPRP CD Review
• Rolling Stone Review

Tinsel is a thin metallic strip typically made of plastic for use for Christmas decoration, particularly on Christmas trees. Tinsel is different than Garland, which is “Tinsel on a rope”. It was invented in Germany in 1610, and was originally made of shredded silver.

Tinsel used to include lead, which caused the strands to hang better from the branches. This was eventually removed due to safety concerns.

References

1999 Christmas Single is the second Christmas single by the American punk rock/punk pop band MxPx, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). This single was sent out to all members of the MxPx Fanclub at the time, and being a member was the only way to get one. They have continued the tradition of making a Christmas single every year and sending it out to their fan club members.

Track listing

1. “Christmas Only Comes Once A Year” (MxPx) – 3:42

Personnel

• Mike Herrera - Bass, Vocals
• Tom Wisniewski - Guitar
• Yuri Ruley - Drums

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas was the first Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album has sold over six million copies since it was released in 1984. The group has released five subsequent Christmas studio albums, most recently Christmas Song in October 2007. [1]

Track listing

• Songs are traditional except where noted

1. “Deck The Halls” – 3:29
2. “We Three Kings” (Hopkins) – 3:40
3. “Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” – 2:32
4. “Coventry Carol” – 2:38
5. “Good King Wenceslas” – 3:29
6. “Christmas Sweet: Wassail, Wassail” – 2:20
7. “Christmas Sweet: Carol Of The Birds” (Bas-Quercy) – 2:03
8. “Christmas Sweet: I Saw Three Ships” – 1:28
9. “Christmas Sweet: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 1:37
10. “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 4:19
11. “Stille Nacht” (Gruber) – 5:26

All I Really Want for Christmas is the second Christmas album by Steven Curtis Chapman, released in September 2005. The album includes traditional holiday favorites such as “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Silver Bells”, but also includes Chapman’s adopted daughter, Shaohannah, telling Luke 2:7-14 in her own words. Chapman’s artistic flavor shows through in each and every song.

Track listing

1. “Luke 2:7-14 as told by Shaoey”
2. “Angels from the Realms of Glory”
3. “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
4. “All I Really Want”
5. “The Miracle of Christmas”
6. “Go Tell It on the Mountain”
7. “Christmas Is All in the Heart”
8. “Silver Bells”
9. “Winter Wonderland”
10. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
11. “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”
12. “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”
13. “The Night Before Christmas”
14. “Shaoey and Her Dad Wish You a Merry Christmas”

External links

• Steven Curtis Chapman official website
• Album info

Radio Disney Holiday Jams is a holiday album by Radio Disney, released in 2000. Radio Disney Holiday Jams 2 was released in 2002.

Track listing

1. “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” - The Chipmunks
2. “Little Saint Nick” - Beach Boys
3. “Grandma Got Run Over By The Reindeer” - Elmo and Patsy
4. “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” - Brenda Lee
5. “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” - Jackson 5
6. “Jingle Bell Rock” - Bobby Helms
7. “A Holly Jolly Christmas” - Burl Ives
8. “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” - *NSYNC
9. “Macarena Christmas” - Los Del Rio
10. “Jingle Bells” - Singing Dogs
11. “Sleigh Ride” - Spice Girls
12. “Last Christmas” - Billie
13. “As Long As There’s Christmas” - Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack
14. “Deck The Halls” - SHeDAISY
15. “Frosty The Snowman” - Myra

See also

• Radio Disney Jingle Jams
• Radio Disney Jams Series

Bethlehem is a Christmas album by Brian McKnight released October 20 1998.

Tracks

1. “Hail Mary” – 2:09
2. “Bethlehem Tonight” – 3:32
3. “Let it Snow” – 4:24
4. “Silent Night (Interlude)” – 1:15
5. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – 3:59
6. “It’s All About Love” – 5:15
7. “Christmas Time is Here” – 3:27
8. “The First Noel” – 3:35
9. “(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays” – 3:18
10. “Don’t Let Me Go” – 4:13
11. “Christmas Eve With You” – 6:20

A Very Special Christmas 5 is the fifth in a series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released in October 2001, with production supervision by Bobby Shriver, Jon Bon Jovi, and Joel Gallen for A&M Records.

Track listing

1. “This Christmas (Hang All the Mistletoe)” - Macy Gray
2. “Little Drummer Boy/Hot Hot Hot” - Wyclef Jean
3. “Noel! Noel!” - Eve 6
4. “Blue Christmas” - Jon Bon Jovi
5. “Merry Christmas Baby” - Stevie Wonder & Wyclef Jean
6. “O Come All Ye Faithful” - City High
7. “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You” - SR-71
8. “Christmas Day” - Dido
9. “Run Rudolph Run” - Sheryl Crow
10. “Back Door Santa” - B.B. King & John Popper
11. “Little Red Rooster” - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
12. “Christmas Don’t Be Late (Chipmunk Song)” - Powder
13. “Silent Night” - Stevie Nicks
14. “I Love You More” - Stevie Wonder & Kimberly Brewer
15. “White Christmas” - Darlene Love

Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the .cx ccTLD, and administrator of the Christmas Island Information Economy Development Trust. Christmas Island Internet Administration owns and operates the only Internet Service Provider (http://www.pulau.cx) in the Territory on a not-for-profit basis.

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is a popular secular 16th century English carol from West Country of England. It is one of the few traditional holiday carols that makes mention of the New Year’s celebration.

Lyrics

1. We wish you a merry Christmas; We wish you a merry Christmas;
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Chorus:
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! (Or “Good tidings for Christmas and a happy New Year!”)

2. Now, bring us some figgy pudding; now, bring us some figgy pudding;
Now, bring us some figgy pudding and bring some out here!
Chorus

3. For we all like figgy pudding; for we all like figgy pudding;
For we all like figgy pudding: so bring some out here!
Chorus

4. And we won’t go until we’ve got some; We won’t go until we’ve got some;
And we won’t go until we’ve got some; so bring some out here!
Chorus

Christmas Extraordinaire was the sixth Christmas album released by New Age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 2001. The song “O Tannenbaum” features a lead vocal by Johnny Mathis.

Track listing

1. “Hallelujah” – 4:43
2. “White Christmas” – 3:35
3. “Away in a Manger” – 3:23
4. “Faeries” – 2:29
5. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” – 4:06
6. “The First Noel” – 3:38
7. “Silver Bells” – 4:28
8. “Fum, Fum, Fum” – 4:51
9. “Some Children See Him” – 3:34
10. “Winter Wonderland” – 3:42
11. “O Tannenbaum” – 3:01
12. “Auld Lang Syne” – 3:42

Christmas Pie is a village, in Surrey, England. Named after Christmas Pie Farm (1823) a name probably associated with the Christmas family that is mentioned in 16th century records.

References

• Dictionary of English Place Names, A. D. Mills, ISBN 0-19-280074-4

External links

• Normandy and Christmas Pie, local history site

“Christmas” is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the seventh song on the Who’s rock opera Tommy. The song tells how on Christmas morning, Tommy’s father (others claim it is both of Tommy’s parents) is worried about Tommy’s future, and soul. He claims “Tommy doesn’t know what day it is/He doesn’t know who Jesus was or what praying is,” and he wonders “How can he be saved/From the eternal grave?”

Musical themes

Musically, Christmas introduces the See Me, Feel Me reprise. Also there is a short “Can You Hear Me” reprise that will be repeated in the song Tommy Can You Hear Me.

That same Christmas, Tommy is given a game of pinball, foreshadowing to the events that take place in “Pinball Wizard”

The Edge Of Christmas was a Christmas compilation album released in 1995.

Track listing

1. “Thank God It’s Christmas”
2. “Please Come Home For Christmas”
3. “2000 Miles”
4. “December Will Be Magic Again”
5. “Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy”
6. “Winter Wonderland”
7. “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
8. “Run Run Rudolph”
9. “Christmas Is Coming”
10. “Fairytale Of New York”
11. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight)”
12. “Christmas Wrapping”

Tinsel is a thin metallic strip typically made of plastic for use for Christmas decoration, particularly on Christmas trees. Tinsel is different than Garland, which is “Tinsel on a rope”. It was invented in Germany in 1610, and was originally made of shredded silver.

Tinsel used to include lead, which caused the strands to hang better from the branches. This was eventually removed due to safety concerns.

References

Christmas is all in the Heart is a 2003 album by Steven Curtis Chapman.

Tracks

1. Silver Bells
2. Winter Wonderland
3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
4. Go Tell it on the Mountain
5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
6. O Little Town of Bethlehem
7. O Come All Ye Faithful
8. This Baby
9. O Come O Come Emmanuel
10. Home for Christmas
11. Silent Night Medley

Christmas creep is the commercial phenomenon of merchants and retailers exploiting the commercialized status of Christmas (see Christmas season) earlier and earlier every year. It is most often attributed to the desire of many merchants to take advantage of particularly heavy Christmas-related shopping well before Black Friday in the US and before Halloween in Canada and the UK. It can apply for other holidays as well, notably Valentine’s Day, Easter and Mother’s Day. The key for holiday creep is for retailers to lengthen their selling season for seasonal merchandise in order to maximize profit and to give early-bird shoppers a headstart on that holiday.

External links

• Christmas Creep: The Shopping Season Is Longer, but Is It Better?

Little Christmas, or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Epiphany. It is so called because it was, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the day on which Christmas Day was celebrated. It is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the last day of the Christmas holidays for both Primary and Secondary schools.

The name Little Christmas is also found in Slovenian (mali božič).

It is also known as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas), so called because of the tradition (still very strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all the household duties on that day and giving their spouses a day off. Most women will either hold parties or go out to celebrate the day with their friends, sisters, mothers, aunts etc. Bars and restaurants have a near 100% female clientele on this night. Children often buy presents for their mothers and grandmothers and it closely resembles Mother’s Day in this respect.

A Partridge Family Christmas Card is a vinyl album of Christmas music the case of which contained a reproduction of a Christmas card that was signed by the whole Partridge Family, the stars of a 1970s sitcom. The song “My Christmas Card to You” was original, the remainders were standards. The album was issued in 1993 on CD.

Track listing

• “My Christmas Card to You”
• “White Christmas”
• “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
• “Blue Christmas”
• “Jingle Bells”
• “The Christmas Song”
• “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
• “Winter Wonderland”
• “Frosty the Snowman”
• “Sleigh Ride”
• “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is a popular secular 16th century English carol from West Country of England. It is one of the few traditional holiday carols that makes mention of the New Year’s celebration.

Lyrics

1. We wish you a merry Christmas; We wish you a merry Christmas;
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Chorus:
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! (Or “Good tidings for Christmas and a happy New Year!”)

2. Now, bring us some figgy pudding; now, bring us some figgy pudding;
Now, bring us some figgy pudding and bring some out here!
Chorus

3. For we all like figgy pudding; for we all like figgy pudding;
For we all like figgy pudding: so bring some out here!
Chorus

4. And we won’t go until we’ve got some; We won’t go until we’ve got some;
And we won’t go until we’ve got some; so bring some out here!
Chorus