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All I Really Want for Christmas | christmas party favors

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

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

Christmas Wonderland | christmas party favors

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Christmas Wonderland is an instrumental Christmas album by Bert Kaempfert and his orchestra from 1963.


Tracks

  1. The Little Drummer Boy
  2. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
  3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  4. Holiday For Bells
  5. Winter Wonderland
  6. Children’s Christmas Dream
  7. Sleigh Ride
  8. White Christmas
  9. Toy Parade
  10. Christmas Wonderland
  11. Jingo Jango
  12. Jumpin’ Jiminy Christmas

Step into Christmas | christmas party favors

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.


Other versions

It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.


External links

Into Christmas lyrics

A Fresh Aire Christmas | christmas party favors

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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Fresh Aire Christmas was the second Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1988.


Track listing

  1. “Hark! The Herald Trumpets Sing”
  2. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
  3. “Veni Veni (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)”
  4. “The Holly and the Ivy”
  5. “Little Drummer Boy”
  6. “Still, Still, Still”
  7. “Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming”
  8. “In Dulci Jubilo”
  9. “Greensleeves”
  10. “Carol of the Bells”
  11. “Traditions of Christmas”
  12. “Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)”

Play Around the Christmas Tree | christmas party favors

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Play Around the Christmas Tree is an album by Play.


Track listing

  1. “Sleigh Ride” – 3:24
  2. “Winter Wonderland” 2:03
  3. “O Holy Night” – 3:38
  4. “Let It Snow” – 1:48
  5. “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” – 1:54
  6. “Silver Bells” –2:10
  7. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – 2:07
  8. “The Christmas Song” – 3:13
  9. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – 3:55
  10. “Silent Night” – 3:04


Personnel

  • Anaïs Lameche
  • Janet Leon
  • Rosie Munter
  • Anna Sundstrand

Chin Up | 1973 with the

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

“Chin Up” is a song from Charlotte’s Web the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated musical. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. The song is written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. In the motion picture the song is sung by Charlotte the spider when she first meets Wilbur the pig in the barnyard. She convinces him to look on the bright side.


Literary Sources

  • Sherman, Robert B. . Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.

Wendimiller | the band

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

WENDIMILLER was a rock band from Dundalk, Ireland, which disbanded when guitarist Tommie Kelly left.

The three members that remain have started a new band, Podracer.

The band is a member of the North-East Mafia, a music collective set up to help promote up-and-coming bands in the North-East of Ireland.


External link

  • Official web site

The band went through many line-ups. when the band parted ways the line-up was:

Alan Anderson: Vocals, Guitar.
Chris Fogarty: Bass, Vocals.
Tommie Kelly: Guitar, Vocals.
Matthew Molly: Drums

S-E-X-X-Y | appears on the

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

S-E-X-X-Y is an EP released in 1996 (see 1996 in music) by musical group They Might Be Giants, in conjunction with their LP Factory Showroom.


Notes

The version of “Sensurround” that appears on this EP is a different recording from the one that appears on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie soundtrack (which was contributed by They Might Be Giants for the feature).

Studying the lyrics of the title track, “S-E-X-X-Y” appears to revolve around an attractive woman, however one popular interpretation of the track is it is in fact about someone who has Klinefelter’s syndrome - a person with two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome, or possibly about a transvestite. However, They Might Be Giants have claimed that this song is simply an “ode to getting it on.” The song states that “X, because it’s extra, baby. Y, because it’s extra, baby.”, implying S-E-X.


Track listing

  1. “S-E-X-X-Y” (Radio Mix)
  2. “Sensurround”
  3. “Unforgotten”
  4. “We’ve Got A World That Swings”
  5. “S-E-X-X-Y” (The Warren Rigg Microwave Mix)


External links

  • S-E-X-X-Y EP on This Might Be A Wiki
  • “S-E-X-X-Y” (song) on This Might Be A Wiki

Smoke (album) | originally released as

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Smoke is an album by Paul Kelly and Melbourne bluegrass band, Uncle Bill. It was originally released in 1999.

It was released on EMI Records in Australia.


Track listing

  1. “Our Sunshine”
  2. “You Can’t Take It With You”
  3. “Until Death Do Us Part”
  4. “I Can’t Believe We Were Married”
  5. “I Don’t Remember A Thing”
  6. “Teach Me Tonight”
  7. “Sydney From A 747″
  8. “Night After Night”
  9. “Whistling Bird”
  10. “Stories Of Me”
  11. “Taught By Experts”
  12. “Gathering Storm”
  13. “Shy Before You Lord”


Credits

  • Produced by Paul Kelly and Gerry Hale

URL http://www.gerryhale.com

Links

Droodle | themed

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Droodles are a kind of cartoon popularized in the U.S. by Roger Price’s 1953 book Droodles. The trademarked name “Droodle” is a nonsense word suggesting both “doodle” and “riddle.” Their general form is minimal: a square box containing a few abstract pictorial elements, and under that a caption (or several) giving a humorous “explanation” of the picture’s subject. For example, a Droodle depicting three concentric shapes — little circle, medium circle, big square — might have the caption “Aerial view of a cowboy in a Port-a-john.”

Droodles in America are (or were) purely a form of entertainment, like any other nonsense cartoon, and appeared in pretty much the same places (newspapers, paperback collections, bathroom walls) during their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. The commercial success of Price’s collections of Droodles led to the founding of the publishing house Price-Stern-Sloan, and also to the creation of a Droodles-themed game show. Series of newspaper advertisements for the News and Max brands of cigarettes featured cigarette-themed Droodles.

One of Price’s original Droodles serves as the cover art for Frank Zappa’s 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Price’s other captions for that drawing include “Mother pyramid feeding her baby.”


See also

  • Leonard B. Stern
  • Mad Libs
  • Kilroy was here


External links

  • Brief Roger Price bio
  • An old archive of droodles

Links

Mike Young (Neighbours) | Who’d

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Michael James “Mike” Young was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Guy Pearce from 1986 until 1989.


Family Tree

  • David Young (father, deceased), married to Barbara Young (mother)

    • Michael Young

Links

List of Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland | special

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland are part of the European Natura 2000 network of sites with special flora or fauna.

Northern Ireland has 43 SACs:

  • Ballynahone Bog
  • Banagher Glen
  • Bann Estuary
  • Binevenagh
  • Black Bog
  • Breen Wood
  • Carn/Glenshane Pass
  • Cladagh (Swanlinbar) River
  • Cuilcagh Mountains
  • Garry Bog
  • Garron Plateau
  • Magilligan
  • Main Valley Bogs
  • Moneygal Bog
  • Montiaghs Moss
  • North Antrim Coast
  • Owenkillew River
  • Peatlands Park
  • Rathlin Island
  • Rea’s Wood & Farr’s Bay
  • Strangford Lough
  • Upper Ballinderry River
  • Upper Lough Erne
  • Wolf Island Bog

See also:

  • Special Area of Conservation
  • Special Protection Area

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Event model | event hosted

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The event model is a programming paradigm commonly used in building graphical user interfaces. A very common and very programmer-friendly variant is the delegate event model, which is provided by the most popular graphic frameworks.


Delegate event model

This model is based on three entities:

  • a control, which is the event source
  • consumers, also called listeners, that receive the events from the source
  • interfaces (in the broader meaning of the term) that describe the protocol by which every event is to be communicated

Furthermore the model requires that:

  • every listener must implement the interface for the event it wants to listen to (done at programming time)
  • every listener must register with the source, to declare its desire to listen to some particular event (done at runtime)
  • every time the source generates an event, it communicates it to the registered listeners, following the protocol of the interface

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ABC Entertainment | Walt Disney World

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America’s Funniest Home Videos, America’s Funniest People, and H.E.L.P..

The company was originally known as ABC Television Network Productions, ABC Circle Films, and later ABC Productions.

Links

A Very Special Christmas 3 | Christmas

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

A Very Special Christmas 3 is the third in a series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released in 1997 and production was overseen by Bobby Shriver, Al Cafaro, and Linda Feder for A&M Records.


Track listing

  1. “I Saw Three Ships” - Sting
  2. “Christmastime” - Smashing Pumpkins
  3. “Children Go Where I Send Thee” - Natalie Merchant
  4. “Santa Baby” - Reverend Run with Keith Murray, Ma$e, Onyx, Puff Daddy, Salt ‘N’ Pepa, Snoop Dogg
  5. “Oi To The World” - No Doubt
  6. “Blue Christmas” - Sheryl Crow
  7. “Christmas” - Blues Traveler
  8. “Oiche Chiun (Silent Night)” - Enya
  9. “The Christmas Song” - Hootie & The Blowfish
  10. “Ave Maria” - Chris Cornell/Eleven
  11. “Christmas In the City” - Mary J. Blige/Angie Martinez
  12. “Santa Claus Is Back In Town” - Jonny Lang
  13. “Christmas Song” - Dave Matthews Band/Tim Reynolds
  14. “Christmas Is Now Drawing Near At Hand” - Steve Winwood
  15. “O Holy Night” - Tracy Chapman
  16. “We Three Kings” - Patti Smith

Links

Snowflakes (album) | Christmas

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Snowflakes is the first Christmas album (fourth overall) by American R&B singer Toni Braxton, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). Along with traditional Christmas songs “The Christmas Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, the album features original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album.

The album was produced by Braxton, her husband Keri Lewis, and Antonio “L.A.” Reid. The song “Christmas in Jamaica” is a collaboration with reggae artist Shaggy.


Track listing

  1. “Holiday Celebrate” – 3:59
  2. “Christmas in Jamaica” (featuring Shaggy) – 4:22
  3. “Snowflakes of Love” – 4:24
  4. “Christmas Time Is Here” – 4:11
  5. “Santa Please…” – 4:32
  6. “…Pretty Please (Interlude)” – 1:00
  7. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – 4:34
  8. “This Time Next Year” – 4:22
  9. “The Christmas Song” – 3:23
  10. “Snowflakes of Love” (Brent Fischer Instrumental) – 4:36
  11. “Christmas in Jamaica” (Remix featuring Shaggy) – 3:39

Links

Autobiography (album) | album Caribou. It also

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Several music albums exist with the title Autobiography:

  • Autobiography (Nat Adderley album)
  • Autobiography (Abdullah Ibrahim album)
  • Autobiography (David Amram album)
  • Auto-biography (Le Car album)
  • Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album)
  • Autobiography (Peter Leitch album)
  • Autobiography (T-Luni album)

Links

  • CARIBOU, Barnowl Released as an extra-rare taster for his forthcoming album on Leaf, 'Barnowl' is a Customers who bought CARIBOU - Barnowl also bought the following.
  • Official Site of Chicago the Band - History When Chicago gathered at the Caribou Ranch to record its seventh album in the Terry Kath played bass on the album, also contributing acoustic guitar on
  • Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Album - Caribou Caribou tries to anchor the album in the empathy and security of Also, the fact that it's so tirelessly constructed rankles - because the record is so
  • .:MINUTIAMUSIC:. This technique creates the sonic wall effect that works so effortlessly on this album, and it also is finally giving Caribou a defining sound.
  • Perfect Sound Forever: Caribou Touring the world on the back of his third album The Milk of Human Kindness, . as long as I keep doing that I

Because It’s Christmas | Christmas

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Because It’s Christmas was the first of two Christmas albums released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was a huge success, becoming Manilow’s first platinum album since 1984’s 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe. It also began a period in Manilow’s career in which he recorded cover albums. Each album would focus on a particular style of music. He continued this pattern until the release of Here at the Mayflower in 2001. The album was released in 1990.


Track listing


Side 1

  1. “The Christmas Song” - 3:54
  2. “Jingle Bells” (Duet with Expose) - 2:39
  3. “Silent Night/I Guess There Ain’t No Santa Claus” - 5:19
  4. “The First Noel/When The Meadow Was Bloomin’” - 5:01
  5. “Excerpt from Handel’s Messiah/Because It’s Christmas” - 5:28


Side 2

  1. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Duet with K.T. Oslin) - 5:19
  2. “White Christmas” - 1:32
  3. “Carol Of The Bells/The Bells Of Christmas” - 4:48
  4. “Joy To The World/Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” - 3:46
  5. “We Wish You A Merry Christmas/It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve” - 4:47

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Rock and Roll (song) | covered by

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

“Rock and Roll” is the title of several distinct songs:

  • “Rock and Roll” by Gary Glitter
  • “Rock and Roll” by Led Zeppelin
  • “Rock & Roll” by The Velvet Underground
  • “Rock and Roll Music” is a song by Chuck Berry and subsequently covered by The Beatles as well as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
  • “Rock N Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life), is a song by Kevin Johnson, which was covered by Mac Davis and Gary Glitter.

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Immer heiterer | performed by

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Immer heiterer (’More and More Cheerful’) op. 235 is a waltz written by Johann Strauss II in 1860 for the Vienna Carnival Fasching. The waltz was marked as ‘im ländlerstyle’ which meant that it was to be performed in the same style as that of the ländler.

The work was first performed at the genial ‘Strauss Ball’ in the famous ‘Sperl’ ballroom in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt and was popular when first performed although its ‘twin’ work, which is the compelling Accelerationen op. 234 won much acclaim.

The most significant section of the waltz can be heard in the coda (tail-piece) where Strauss called for the members of the orchestra to utilize their vocal cords in a chorus of laughter in spirit of the work.


References

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