{"id":32452,"date":"2021-10-01T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32452"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:08:11","slug":"norah-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/norah-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Norah Jones Releases New Christmas Song and Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norah Jones has released the first original song from her upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album titled <em>I Dream of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>. The song, released via YouTube, is titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Calling (Jolly Jones)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0iFK2NiyvDg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always loved <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music but never had the inclination to make a holiday album until now,\u201d Norah says. \u201cLast year I found myself listening to James Brown\u2019s Funky <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and Elvis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Album on Sunday\u2019s during lockdown for a sense of comfort. In January 2021, I started thinking about making a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album of my own. It gave me something fun to work on and look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was trying to figure out which direction to take, the original songs started popping in my head,\u201d Norah explains. \u201cThey were all about trying to find the joys of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>, catching that spark, that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">feeling<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and inclusion that I was longing for during the rest of the year. Then there are all the classics that have that special nostalgia that can hit you no matter who or where you are in life. It was hard to narrow down, but I picked favorite classics that I knew I could make my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the album\u2019s many pleasures are Norah\u2019s playful reinvention of The Chipmunk\u2019s \u201cChristmas Don\u2019t Be Late\u201d by David Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian), which is given a languid beat and swaggering horns. Other highlights include sublime versions of \u201cWhite <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBlue <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>,\u201d \u201cWinter Wonderland,\u201d and \u201cChristmas Time Is Here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The track listing for I Dream Of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Calling (Jolly Jones) (Norah Jones)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Don\u2019t Be Late (Ross Bagdasarian)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Glow (Norah Jones)<br \/>\nWhite <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> (Irving Berlin)<br \/>\nChristmastime (Norah Jones\/Leon Michels)<br \/>\nBlue <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> (Billy Hayes\/Jay W. Johnson)<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Only <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Once A Year (Norah Jones)<br \/>\nYou\u2019re Not Alone (Norah Jones\/Leon Michels)<br \/>\nWinter Wonderland (Richard B. Smith\/Felix Bernard)<br \/>\nA Holiday With You (Norah Jones)<br \/>\nRun Rudolph Run (Johnny Marks\/Marvin Brodie)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Time Is Here (Lee Mendelson\/Vince Guaraldi)<br \/>\nWhat Are You Doing New Year\u2019s Eve? (Frank Loesser)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norah Jones has released the first original song from her upcoming Christmas album titled I Dream of Christmas. The song, released via YouTube, is titled Christmas Calling (Jolly Jones). \u201cI\u2019ve always loved Christmas music but never had the inclination to make a holiday album until now,\u201d Norah says. \u201cLast year I found myself listening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":26,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[896],"class_list":["post-32452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-norah-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}