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Today in Music History for Jan. 10: In 1917, legendary record producer Jerry Wexler was born in The Bronx, N.Y. He helped shape R&B music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles ...
First released in 1958, Lee was just 13 when she released “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree”. Written by Johnny Marks, the ...
Yes, "'tis the damn season" counts. By Denise Warner Taylor Swift famously grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. Back in 2009 while promoting her second-album Fearless, she talked to Jimmy ...
Gwen Stefani is ready for the Christmas season! The singer took the stage during NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center special on Dec. 3, to deliver an incredible performance of her new holiday song, ...
Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...
If you love the holidays like we do, you know there are some ingredients you're going to want to sprinkle in to the season to help ensure its success. (We're not talking about the white stuff, either, ...
One thousand people have gathered on top of a giant sand dune on a wintry Tuesday night near the middle of Australia, sitting on camp chairs and rugs, and keenly listening to songs about places near ...
It's time to get cozy with some of our favorite sitcoms. Here are the greatest Christmas-themed sitcom episodes of all time.
FLORA AND FAUNA. The early settler who cleared a bit of forest for his cabin and garden began to change the area's plant and animal life. In the forest around his cabin he could hunt deer, bear, wild ...
In 1957, the classic Christmas book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” was published on Oct. 12 in Redbook magazine as an illustrated poem. Geisel, with help from his wife Helen, released a full-length ...