Christmas and Movie Song of the Week: "December the 25th"

From the soundtrack of the 1970 musical Scrooge, it's an oddly appropriate but rarely played song for the current season.

Christmas and Movie Song of the Week: "Where Are You Christmas?"

From the 2000 movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, I post a song by a young Taylor Momsen. She played Cindy Lou Who in that movie and she sang pretty good for someone who was no more than two.

Movie Song of the Week: "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

The one scene from Elf that I really like. And even then my like has more to do with Ms. Deschanel's vocals than anything else.

Movie Song of the Week: "Making Christmas"

'Tis the season.

Movie Song of the Week: "Jingle Bell Rock"

Please don't tell my mother I posted this but for some reason, I just had to. Who would have thought that life would change so much for Lindsay Lohan since 2004?

Movie Song of the Week: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

Wow! I had been warned that this song was a lot darker in its original context than in its more modern version. But I never realized how dark until just this week. Then again, this song was first written and performed in 1944, a year when many Americans had little reason to feel optimistic about the future due to World War II. And, of course, in view of recent events, it would be foolish of me to not feel a bit leery about enjoying myself in the wake of any holiday song -- especially since my siblings and I once had to move around Christmastime. But that's just me.

Please feel free to enjoy the coming holidays if you can.

Movie Song of the Week: "Jack's Obsession"

Heh. This week I post yet another musical number from my favorite part of the Tim Burton Christmas trilogy -- a number in which Jack Skellington singlehandedly invents the Holiday Tree and announces the start of the Occupy Christmas movement.

Christmas Movie Songs

“All Alone on Christmas” -- Home Alone 2 (1992)
“Christmas” -- Tommy (1975)
“Happy Holidays” -- Holiday Inn (1942)
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” -- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
“Jack's Obsession” -- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
“Jingle Bell Rock” -- Mean Girls (2004)
“My Favorite Things” -- The Sound of Music (1965)
“Silver Bells” -- The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
“Waltz of the Flowers” -- Fantasia (1940)
“What's This?” -- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
“White Christmas” -- Holiday Inn (1942)

Movie Song of the Week: "Christmas"

From the 1975 Ken Russell musical Tommy comes one of the most dysfunctional Christmas movie songs of all time. Who would have guessed back then that singer Ann Margret would prove to be such a big influence on future televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker?

Movie Song of the Week: “What's This?”

This week I post the closest thing to a traditional Christmas song you're ever likely to find in a Tim Burton movie. From 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas, it's the deceptively titled “What's This?”

I hope you all enjoy it.

Movie Song of the Week: “Waltz of the Flowers”

I honestly never expected to see this on YouTube. From the 1940 Disney film Fantasia, it's “Waltz of the Flowers,” a brief excerpt from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Movie Song of the Week: “White Christmas”

I should post this song tomorrow but for obvious reasons, tomorrow promises to be a busy day and I'll be spending most of it away from the computer.

So, from 1942's Holiday Inn, a song that really needs no introduction.

Movie Song of the Week: “Silver Bells”

From 1951's The Lemon Drop Kid, it's the original movie version of “Silver Bells,” a song that has become as identified with Bob Hope as the song “Thanks for the Memories.”

I don't always care for most of the Bob Hope movies I've seen but I did like this one. Perhaps because the movie was inspired by an old Damon Runyon short story. Or perhaps because it has moments that are actually funny. Plus you have Marilyn Maxwell, who plays Hope's girlfriend and vocal accompanist in this number and who is easy on both the eyes and the ears.

Btw, if that guy in the Santa suit at the beginning of the clip -- the one who isn't Bob Hope, of course -- looks familiar, it's because he's William Frawley, an actor who is most famous for playing Fred Mertz on the TV series I Love Lucy -- as well as for having a key role in another famous Christmas movie.

Anyway, I hope you all like it.

Movie Song of the Week: “All Alone on Christmas”

I'm not too crazy about the visuals for this video -- mainly because I wasn't all that fond of 1992's Home Alone 2. Nor am I all that fond of seeing a genuine talent like Darlene Love (former “unofficial” lead singer for The Crystals who is best known today for playing Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies) kowtowing to flash-in-the-pan Macaulay Culkin, even if it's just for comic effect. And wasn't this song originally used in the first Home Alone movie back in 1990?

I hope you all enjoy it.

Movie Song of the Week: “My Favorite Things”

I have no idea how this song from 1965's The Sound of Music came to be considered a Christmas song. After all, it says nothing about Christmas or the Virgin Mary or Jesus or even Santa. Yet I've heard it on many a Christmas record and mix tape.

Oh, well. It's still a good song if not exactly one of my -- ahem -- favorite things.

I hope you all like it.