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24 Songs of Christmas, Dec. 4: 'Blue Christmas' -- Elvis PresleyPosted Wednesday, December 4, at 7:42 AM Was there really any doubt on this? Talk about rendering all other versions redundant. The King didn't write the song and he wasn't the first to record it. But nine years after it was written, he gave us the definitive version. The arrangement is perfect, Elvis's voice is spot-on and the woo-ooh-ooh-ooh-oohs are outstanding and kind of hilarious...
Is an instrumental actually a song? Let's forgo those semantics with the understanding that this won't be the last time you find a recording without words on this list. Several of our beloved Christmas television specials are based on songs: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Frosty the Snowman" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" come immediately to mind...
December at 102 Fall St., Williamsport, Ind., was a month filled with music. I've never asked my dad what his favorite kind of music is, but I imagine it would go something like the immortal Blues Brothers line: "Both kinds, country and western." And while there certainly would be an element of truth to that, I have long maintained that his favorite is truly Christmas music -- any genre, just Christmas music...
As I said in Saturday's intro, this list is not a countdown. If it were, you would not be reading about this song until at least Dec. 21. Since it's not a countdown, I figured, why not kick things off with a bang? When I conceived of this list, what I was looking for was the definitive version of each of these songs. While I didn't find that at every turn, it's what I found here...
The 24 days of Christmas (songs) It's no secret around the BG office or to frequent bannergraphic.com readers that I'm not exactly disciplined about blog posts. I want to do it and I enjoy doing it. It just doesn't seem to get done too often. With that in mind, and in the spirit of the holiday season, I've set a lofty goal for myself: 24 blogs in 24 days. (25 if you count this Nov. 30 intro.)...
Happiness and cheer Christmas seems to come early to the Jernagan household. Usually it gets here before Thanksgiving. In fact, this year it arrived before Halloween. At some point in early October, my dealmaking three-year-old son negotiated the right to put up his miniature bedroom Christmas tree at the first snow...
Hallelujah I wasn't exactly born with the hands of a piano player. Instead, I was graced with the fingers that are short and pudgy -- kind of like, well, kind of like me. This condition left me highly unlikely to ever be very adept at playing certain musical instruments or gripping a football or basketball...
What day is it, anyway? Monday holidays always make for a strange week in the newsroom. You start off with no one having to be at the office on Sunday afternoon or evening. Hooray! Something resembling a real weekend! Then you follow it up with a Monday night deadline that isn't usually there...
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall I could tell it was coming this morning as I drove to work. Then as I looked up at the sky walking to the building I thought, I'm glad I'm not doing this a half hour from now. As it turned out, it was more like 45 minutes later. But sure enough, right around 9 a.m. the sky let loose with a hard, refreshing rain...
As easy as a root canal I couldn't believe my ears. In this job, I often take calls from public relations specialists. Sometimes it's something I have a professional interest in it, sometimes I don't. Regardless of my interest in what they are talking about, I try to remain courteous and let them say what they need, send me any information they need. From there, the ball is generally in my court to do something with the information or just let it drop...
What the heck is this? I'm proud to say I have never used a dating site. This is especially good when you consider I've been married for nearly six years and in a relationship with my wife for more than seven. Even so, I don't think I ever would have been the dating site kind. I think they were probably in their infancy way back in 2005, but I wasn't looking to become a client...
Sittin' downtown in a railway station My wife and I recently joined the modern ages and purchased our first iPhones. Making the jump from to smartphones from our old C-student phones wasn't nearly as pricey as I expected. I have my fingers crossed that it won't catch up to us on our next bill from Ma Bell...
Let's go streaking Streaks in sports are amazing. NOTE: I didn't say streakers. (Although those are pretty amusing, too. Especially if they happen in a "dignified" sport like golf or tennis.) But being able to come out every day for an extended period of time and get it right is truly remarkable...
Just part of the 8 million Each year we hear a report of how much the NCAA tournament will cost employers in lost productivity, and it's never good news for the people writing the checks. This year, the consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. (Can that be a real company's name?) has estimated employees will spend 8 million hours of work watching NCAA tournament games, costing employers an estimated $192 million in lost productivity...
It's raining more than threes As I sat at my desk this morning thinking of excuses not to venture out into the dreadful winter downpour outside, a text came in from my editor, a witness to dozens of basketball sectional weeks over the years. "Good old sectional rain," he wrote. Ah, yes, sectional rain ... or sectional snow ... or sectional ice storm .....
As much as I hate to direct any traffic to the ridiculous publication that is Rolling Stone, read this. As much as I love going to concerts, many of these behaviors can ruin an otherwise great show. In particular, I was enraged by a woman sitting right next to be carrying out No. 9 from the front row of an Amos Lee show a couple of years ago. I was so enraged by her behavior, that I took every chance I could to stretch or wiggle around in my chair or otherwise bump into her...
There's certainly a lot of convenience to modern technology. My wife and I rarely watch our favorite primetime programs at their prescribed times. (Who needs their 2-year-old repeating sex jokes from an 8 p.m. "family comedy?") Instead, the modern marvel that is DVR keeps us up to date with the comings and goings of the Hecks, the Pritchetts and Sheldon, Leonard and Penny...
... and I feel fine? Yeah, why not? As I sit here on the penultimate day of our existence, I can't get this song out of my head. I figure I'll share it with all of you. Of course, I don't really think the Mayans believed the world was going to end on Dec. 21, 2012 (although that wasn't what they called it), they just figured they had 1,500 years or so to update the calendar so they moved on to other tasks...
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Barry Alvarez. As an Indiana University fan, there are certain things you do to get through the months leading up to basketball season, and few of them involved actually paying attention to what's going on at Memorial Stadium...
It isn't raining here (yet) Seattle isn't exactly what you'd call a city that never sleeps -- more like a city that lightly slumbers for a few hours. At least that's what I've observed from my 12th-floor window early each morning. My bladder has been waking me up each day around 5 a.m. Apparently my body doesn't believe in the Pacific Time Zone...
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