FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 22 - STEP INTO CHRISTMAS – THE PUPPINI SISTERS

Despite the general awfulness of the Christmas song there are however always exceptions to the rule and I have a short list of personal favourites

Without exception all my choices not only include the song but the best performer of that song and so in no particular order here is my twenty second selection.

 

Step Into Christmas

Written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin

Performed By The Puppini Sisters

 

Welcome to my Christmas song

I'd like to thank you for the years

So I'm sending you this Christmas card

To say it's very nice to have you here

I'd like to sing about all the things

Your eyes and mind can see

So hop aboard the turntable

You gotta hop aboard the turntable

You gotta hop aboard the turntable

You gotta oh, oh, oh, oh

Step into Christmas with me

 

Step into Christmas, let's do it together

We can watch the snow fall forever and ever

Eat, drink and be merry

Come, come along with me

Step into Christmas, the admission is free

Take care in all you do next year

And keep smiling through the days

If we can help to entertain you

Oh, we will find the ways

So merry Christmas one and all

There's no place I'd rather be

Than asking you if you'd oblige

Than asking, asking you if you'd oblige

Than asking, asking you if you'd oblige

You'll have a oh, oh, oh, oh

Stepping into Christmas with me

 

Step into Christmas, let's do it together

We can watch the snow fall forever and ever

Eat, drink and be merry

Come, come along with me

Step into Christmas, the admission is free

Welcome to my Christmas song

I'd like to thank you for the year

So I'm sending you this Christmas card

To say it's very nice to have you here

I'd like to sing about all the things

Your eyes and mind can see

So hop aboard the turntable

You gotta hop aboard the turntable

You gotta hop aboard the turntable

You gotta oh, oh, oh, oh

Step into Christmas with me

 

Step into Christmas, let's do it together

We can watch the snow fall forever and ever

Eat, drink and be merry

Come, come along with me

Step into Christmas, the admission is free

Step into Christmas, let's do it together

We can watch the snow fall forever and ever

Eat, drink and be merry

Come, come along with me

Step into Christmas, the admission is free

Step into Christmas, let's do it together

Step into Christmas

You gotta step right up, gotta step right in

Step into Christmas with me 

SEASONS GREETINGS

 

Tis the festive season

Of goodwill and reason

For the politically correct

The dithering and the direct

For the clubs and the cliques

And tedious control freaks

For the anal retentive's

And their many representatives

For council house yobs

And the inverted snobs

Those with professional jobs

And intellectual snobs

For the easily offended

And the over complicated

For the vile and the venomous

The overt and the anonymous

Snake in the grass vipers

And Back stabbing snipers

To the tarts and the vicars

And those in disposable knickers

For all poetry scrawlers

And the unpleasant name callers

For the narrowly minded

And those with axes grinded

For the loud minority

And the silent majority

For blondes and brunettes

And all lads and laddettes

Those pierced and tattooed

And the prim and the lewd

For the bright and the bland

And the humble and the grand

For those who are pretentious

And the liberal consensus

Every class hew and breed

Every persuasion and creed

Whether ungifted or artistic

And the mentally arthritic

For the first and the last

And sense of humour bypassed

For those with rhyme and reason

So in the spirit of the season

Now the year is nearly done

Merry Christmas everyone

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHANCE OF SNOW (1998)

 

A Chance of Snow is a heart-warming tale of a family’s special Christmas that offers an unforgettable lesson in love and trust.

The story begins when two sisters Maddie and Katherine (Jobeth Williams and Dey Young) and Maddie’s daughters Kirby and Ellie (Traci Christofore and Angelica Cassidy) head to the Minnesota St Paul airport to visit their mother’s home for the holidays.

Not long after their arrival they run in to Maddie’s soon-to-be-ex-husband, sportswriter, Matt (Michael Ontkean) who is there to catch a flight to Miami to visit his father and while they are there a blizzard hits and deposits a blanket of snow, and closes the airport.

Initially the uncomfortable situation leads to an argument which is overhead by Earl and Ruth, (Charles Durning and Barbara Barrie) a loving older couple who make it their mission to get Maddie and Matt back together for the holidays.

Trapped at the airport the two weary travellers suddenly find they have time to re-evaluate their relationship, and beyond the hurt and distrust that separates them, the warmth of family and wisdom of new friends leads them, eventually, to discover they have nothing more to do except fall in love again.

Katherine meanwhile who played her part in the reconciliation by taking charge of the children met up with former class mate Craig Johnson (Peter Syvertsen) and his son Jason (Evan Gabriel) and they found love of their own.

CHRISTMAS CANDLE

 

Candle light of beauty

Adorning church and alter

None excluded from Christ’s love

Darkness brightly conquered

Light of Christ illuminating

Everlasting light of life

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 21 - Dominick The Donkey

 

Despite the general awfulness of the Christmas song there are however always exceptions to the rule and I have a short list of personal favourites

Without exception all my choices not only include the song but the best performer of that song and so in no particular order here is my twenty first selection.

 

Dominick the Donkey

Written by Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg and Wandra Merrell

Performed by Lou Monte

Santa's got a little friend his name is Dominick.
The cutest little donkey, you never see him kick.
When Santa visits his Paesans with Dominick he'll be.
Because the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.

(Chorus)

Ay, Jing-a-di-jing hee haw hee haw
It's Dominick the Donkey.
jing-a-di-jing hee haw hee haw.
De Italian Christmas Donkey.
Lalalalalalalalala. lalalalalaladidooda.

Jingle Bells around his feet and presents on da sled.
Hey look at da mayor’s derby, on top of Dominick’s head.
A pair of shoes for Louis and a dress for Josephine.
Da label on de inside says dare made in Brook-a-lee.

(Chorus)

Children sing and clap dare hands and Dominick starts ta dance.
Dey talk Italian to him and he even understands

A GIFT FOR MARIA

 

A young man called Paul

Wanted to buy a present

For his new sweetheart Maria

As a Christmas present

 

As they’d not been dating

For a very long duration

He decided to purchase

After careful consideration

A nice pair of gloves
striking the right note

Not too romantic or personal

So the gloves got his vote

 

Accompanied by Maria’s sister

He went to Harrods and bought

A dainty pair of white gloves

“She will like these” he thought

 

Maria’s sister Susan bought

A pair of panties for herself

But during the wrapping

An error was made on the shelf

 

The assistant mixed up

The gloves and the panties

The sister got the gloves

And Maria got the scanties

 

Without checking Paul sealed

The package along with a note

And sent it to his sweetheart

And this is what he wrote

Dear Maria, I chose these

As I noticed my darling

That you don’t wear any

When we go out in the evening.

 

If not for your sister Susan

I would have got long ones

The type with the buttons,

But Susan wears short ones

That are easier to remove.

They are a delicate shade,

But the shop assistant
where the purchase was made

Showed me the pair she has

That she’d been wearing
and were hardly soiled

After three weeks wearing 

I had her try yours on for me

And she looked really chic

Even though they were

Tight on her a little bit.

 

She told me that her pair

Helps to keep her ring

Clean and shiny, and in fact

And this is interesting

Since she’d begun wearing them.

It hadn’t needed washing

 

I really hope you like them

And wish I were there with you

To put them on you Maria
for the first time I really do

 

As no doubt many other hands

Will have touched them

Before I see you again

Remember when you remove them

To blow into them before

Putting them away and drying 

As they will naturally be

A little damp from wearing

 

Just think how many times

My lips will kiss them
during the coming year.

I hope you will wear them

For me on Friday night
All my love Paul till then

 

P.S. The latest style

Which appears to be growing

Is to wear them folded down

With a little fur showing

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NIGHT BEFORE (2015)

 

Three lifelong friends in New York City, Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie), have for a decade enjoyed their yearly Christmas Eve reunion which has been an annual drug and alcohol fuelled night of debauchery and hilarity.

But now that they're entering a more passive phase of adulthood, the tradition is to come to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracker Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties that they have never managed to find in ten years of trying.

Jillian Bell, Lizzy Caplan, Heléne Yorke, Mindy Kaling and Ilana Glazer make up an excellent supporting cast along with Michael Shannon as Mr Green and James Franco and Miley Cyrus appear as themselves.