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What Christmas Means To Me
"What Christmas Means to Me" is the name of several different Christmas music, Christmas songs. The most-covered version was written by Allen Story, Anna Gordy Gaye, and George Gordy. It has been recorded by many artists, including: * Stevie Wonder (1967) on ''Someday at Christmas'' * Paul Young (1992) on ''A Very Special Christmas 2'' * Hanson (band), Hanson (1997) on ''Snowed In'' * Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen with Sean Holt (1999) on ''Cool Yule: A Christmas Party With Friends'' * En Vogue (2002) on ''The Gift of Christmas (En Vogue album), The Gift of Christmas'' * Holiday Express (2002) on ''Live'' * Jessica Simpson (2004) on ''ReJoyce: The Christmas Album'' * Natalie Grant (2005) on ''Believe'' * Charm City Sound (2007) on ''Christmas Lights'' * Darlene Love (2007) on ''It's Christmas, Of Course'' * Mandisa (2007) on ''Christmas Joy'' EP - also appeared on ''It's Christmas (Mandisa album), It's Christmas'' in 2008 * Jason Yeager (2008) on ''My Christmas Wish'' * Ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject matter ranges from the nativity of Jesus Christ, to gift-giving and merrymaking, to cultural figures such as Santa Claus, among other topics. Many songs simply have a winter or seasonal theme, or have been adopted into the canon for other reasons. While most Christmas songs prior to 1930 were of a traditional religious character, the Great Depression era of the 1930s brought a stream of songs of American origin, most of which did not explicitly reference the Christian nature of the holiday, but rather the more secular traditional Western themes and customs associated with Christmas. These included songs aimed at children such as "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", as well as sentimental ballad-type songs p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overboard (a Cappella)
Overboard is an a cappella group based in Boston, Massachusetts. History Founded by Nicholas Girard in the spring of 2006, Overboard was first conceived as a street performance group intent on entertaining audiences around coastal New England during the summer months. The group's first album, ''Shipwrecked'', was released during that summer and was distributed during the group's frequent busking stops in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Freeport, Maine and Burlington, Vermont, as well as around their hometown of Boston. On the heels of their successful first summer, the group decided to continue performing together on a more permanent basis. In February 2007, Overboard began recording its second album, ''Stranded'', which was released that May. To promote the album, the group performed at a variety of venues throughout New England starting with their appearance at Eggstock, an annual environmental awareness festival held at Flamig Farm in Simsbury, Connecticut where they sang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Have Another
I'll Have Another (foaled April 1, 2009) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. He was bred in Kentucky, owned by Canadian businessman J. Paul Reddam and trained by Doug O'Neill. In May 2012, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, he won the first two legs of the Triple Crown by taking the Kentucky Derby with a time of 2:01.83. and the Preakness Stakes in 1:55.94. On the day before the Belmont Stakes, he was scratched due to tendonitis, ending his chances of winning the Triple Crown, and retired from racing. Background I'll Have Another is a chestnut horse sired by the Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley. Flower Alley's sire, Distorted Humor, was also the sire of 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide. In September 2010, as a yearling, I'll Have Another was sent to the Keeneland sales where he was bought for $11,000 by Victor M. Davila. Davila, an exercise rider, broke and trained the colt before selling him as a two-year-old to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
