What you are looking at, and possibly listening to, is the epitome of Christmas spirit for me. If I could get my hands on this record/CD, I think I'd die a happy girl. See, I love Christmas. Always have. The last few years I've had a bit of trouble finding my Christmas spirit. This year it seems to be back and I'm super happy!
Thanks to the power of Youtube you are seeing the music that set off every season for me starting at about ten. My mother owned this album and to this day, I have never heard anyone sing Ave Maria like Robert Goulet. Oh, scoff if you will! Feel free! But if you put this album on, I turn to a blue and silver, Santa's coming, cotton candy floss pile of girl goo. A warm glowy good feeling slips all around inside of me and runs off my worries and my fears and all the adult b.s. that comes with the season. What I feel is a magical sense of anticipation and excitement.
To my mother's horror, I was known to start playing Robert Goulet's THIS CHRISTMAS I SPEND WITH YOU immediately upon returning from Trick-or-Treating. What can I say? I love Christmas and I love to hear him sing. Enjoy. (Please form a line to the left if you are a scoffer) ;)
Off to wrap up a short and work on the book. Crossing my fingers for another winter storm this week. It's about time we had a winter her in Bawlmer that looked like...winter!
XOXO
Sommer
Author's note: This is the only song available from this album on Youtube. If I could have found it, I so totally would have put Ave Maria up there!
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This is a new one for me. I think I spent one too many Christmas seasons working at the Gap, because the holiday music to me is always Gap-soundtrack infused. There's Elvis and Bruce Springsteen and... wow, I just got an incredible urge to fold something really neatly!
XXX,
Alison
:laughing at AT:
Mine is actually Dolly Parton and Kenny Roger's Once Upon a Christmas. My mom loves country music, and I remember clearly the year the album came out. She was on cloud 9 when we found the album(yup, vinyl) at the store. Brought it home, she opened it, and damn-it-all if the thing wasn't scratched right out of the sleeve!!
Well, you know how it is...can't return it...so she listened to it anyways. And my sister and I got to the point that we knew when to hang the ornament on the tree or pause in frosting cookies to walk to the stereo and tap the record player so you didn't even hear the skip!
And I realized the other night, as I listened to the music on my computer, that I STILL know when I'm supposed to tap the record to skip the scratch ;)
I know, I'm weird!
LOL. AT, I also own two Elvis Xmas Albums and the the Boss was a favorite. And then of course in the 80s when Bob Geldoff (sp?) did his thing I had the 45 of Do They Know It's Christmas? and played it to death and swooned every time I heard Bono (still do)
SG, I don't think that is weird at all. I love that. But gosh. couldn't return it if it was scratched??? Hardcore.
And let us not forget the true tell that it's Christmas. Alvin and the Chipmunks! :)
xoxo
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