Category: Music Monday

So, these holiday songs are not supposed to have a story connection, but I could not help but think of Mary and Lord Rycroft when I watched this video. If you have read No Other Choice, you will know that the story ends very happily at the turning of one year into the next…at a ball.  Unfortunately, His Inconvenient Choice, which begins in the morning following that ball, does not start on such a happy note as Kitty and the Colonel must say goodbye to each other.  I have been working on their story over the past few weeks, and I should be ready to start posting some little snippets of it starting next Monday — if I can find songs to go with them. 🙂

“New Year Greetings from The McGuire Sisters: Let’s Start the New Year Right.” YouTube. Uploaded to YouTube by VideosTime2. YouTube, 24 Dec. 2010.

This song seemed a perfect choice today(Sunday) as I sit looking out my front window at the snow that is falling while preparing my blog posts for the week. 🙂

Ah, this song brings back happy memories. It was on one of the albums in my parents’ record collection, and I played it often. Even as a child I was a lover of romance. 🙂

“Christmas Bride * Ray Coniff and Singers * (HD).” YouTube. Video created for and uploaded to YouTube by Bob Silvestri, 6 Dec. 2014.

This past Saturday, I and my husband went to a World Vision Canada event — A High Valley Acoustic Christmas.  It was a wonderful evening, and, of course, featured the Canadian country group of the year (and a personal favourite of mine), High Valley. However, it opened with a performance by Greg Sykes, which included the song in today’s post.

“Acapella Christmas Medley – Greg Sykes (Come All Ye Faithful).” YouTube. YouTube, 24 Dec. 2013.

Home Free. “Do You Hear What I Hear? (Home Free) (Christmas A Cappella).” YouTube. YouTube, 4 Dec. 2015.

Remember that for the next few weeks, I plan to share some favourite holiday music each Monday, but I don’t intend to have a story connection or really much to say about the songs I will be posting. However, this week, I just have to mention a “sort of” connection. This video was filmed in Minnesota, which just happens to be where I began my Christmas celebrations as an almost-three-week-old baby many years ago. I have many fond memories of Christmases in Minnesota — a tree cut from the woods, snow drifts piled high against the side of the house, listening to the Santa report on the radio and worrying that Mom and Dad not being in bed might make Santa pass our house, Christmas music playing on the record player, and the food (potato sausage, lefse, Swedish meatballs, pies, cookies — there was also lutefisk, which is NOT a pleasant memory 🙂 ). It was such a magical time of year!