Great Ways to Celebrate Leon Day

B. Francis Morlan Christmas News, Christmas Online June 19, 2019June 19, 2019Leon Day 0 Comment

The celebration of Leon Day is a real thing. Every June 24-25th Leon Day comes around to remind that the year, at last, has turned the corner on Christmas. It’s the halfway mark to Christmas, a kind of merry hump day for those who love the countdown to Christmas. Don’t laugh. Counting down to Christmas is not only a popular thing it’s an ancient thing. Ask any advent calendar follower. There are many days and reasons to countdown to the season. But how do you do it? What possibly could be done to mark this very merry un-birthday? Here areRead more

The Next Horrible Santa

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Movies, Christmas News May 13, 2019May 13, 2019Mel Gibson, Santa Claus 0 Comment

Hollywood just won’t quit. They just cannot wait to showcase Santa Claus again in a horrible way. Just announced is an all new Santa film to be called Fatman that will star Mel Gibson as Santa Claus. Fatman will showcase Gibson as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa who is fighting the decline of his business. If that’s not a weak enough premise they mix in a 12 year old character who is so displeased with Santa Mel that he hires a hitman to knock off The Jolly Old Elf. Yeah. Can you believe they think this is a good idea? I’llRead more

If You Have the Post Christmas Blues You’re Doing Christmas Wrong

B. Francis Morlan Christmas News, Christmas Opinion December 27, 2018December 27, 2018Christmas blues 6 Comments

The post-Christmas blues are a very real thing. Once the date of December 25th has passed the specter of December 26th is an ominous marker to many. It sits there on the calendar like the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come. Silent and foreboding, the very image of the hooded Angel of Death it seems to be. And why not? Just about anywhere you look Americans are tossing trees to the curb, ripping down lights from rooftops and radio stations are flipping back to everyday music. What took months to build gets deconstructed in a matter of a couple of days. ItRead more

Best of New Christmas Music from Paul Cardall

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Music, Christmas News November 26, 2018November 26, 2018Paul Cardall Christmas 0 Comment

We have no problem admitting that we are big Paul Cardall fans. He’s a local guy. He has been producing great Christmas stuff for years. He has an inspiring story, incredible talent, a creative mind, and a giving heart. Does all that translate to great Christmas music? Take a listen to this song — hundreds of years old — richly orchestrated in a new way. The Paul Cardall way. (Yeah, we love it): His new album is called Paul Cardall Christmas and you can find/listen/buy at this link.

Best of New Christmas Music from Matt Maher

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Music, Christmas News November 26, 2018November 26, 2018Jingle Bells 0 Comment

How many ways can Jingle Bells be interpreted? As long as it is fun, who cares? And that’s exactly what we get from Matt Maher this year from his album The Advent of Christmas. This version is infectious and capable of endless replay: iTunes Spotify Facebook

Best New Christmas Music from Gentri

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Music November 23, 2018November 23, 2018christmas music 2018 0 Comment

Gentri brings forth the most upbeat version of Little Drummer Boy you are bound to ever hear in this single from their Finding Christmas album. The video feels good and sends a powerful message of #LighttheWorld. Worth a watch and a listen.

The Very Merry Dick Van Dyke

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Music August 22, 2018August 22, 2018Dick Van Dyke 0 Comment

We have known for decades that Dick Van Dyke is a merry soul who can sing. But we have long lacked the great Hollywood Christmas musical or even Christmas music of Dick Van Dyke. We can’t say that any more. Now 92 and soon to be seen in screen again in the remake of Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke released a Christmas song in 2017 much to the delight of fans of all ages. “We’re Going Caroling” is an infectious little tune and the video of Van Dyke proves he still has the moves: The song, performed with Jane Lynch,Read more

We Three Kings

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Features, Christmas Music December 10, 2017December 10, 2017Tabernacle Organ 0 Comment

We Three Kings purports to tell the story of the Magi — perhaps one of the least understood elements of the Nativity Story. While scripture is short on detail of exactly who the Magi were that does not mean the imagination does not run wild and creative when we celebrate their role in Christmas. In this fun video the “three kings” take over the organ…and put on quite a show: The show here is the annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which always features an organ solo of some type. That small moment in the spotlight is alwaysRead more

Christmas in the 1970s

B. Francis Morlan Christmas Past, Retro Christmas September 10, 20171970s Christmas 0 Comment

Christmas in the 1970s was an era between eras. Music and television stars of the 1950s still produced major Christmas releases and the gifts, toys and fads of the time seemed caught sometimes between a time warp to the past and to the future. Take, for example, the wildly popular Star Wars action figures – the hottest toys of the late 1970s. Star Wars is just as wildly popular now as it was then. Video games got their start in the 1970s. Only they were not called “video games”. They didn’t know what to call them then. At the veryRead more

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