Happy 2021!
Category: Blogmas
Bonus Track: “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”
Hi, everyone. What other song could we offer up for the day but this one? Please enjoy Seth MacFarlane’s beautiful performance of this 1947 Frank Loesser tune.
Bonus Track: “Violets for Your Furs”
Hi, everyone. This song features during a crucial scene in my award-winning novel, In The Eye of The Storm. Please enjoy Billie Holiday’s recording of this lovely tune.
Winter-Time, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies, At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit; Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. When to go out, my nurse doth wrap Me in my comforter and cap; The cold wind burns my face, and blows Its frosty pepper up my nose. Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding-cake. (This poem is in the public domain.)
Music Monday: “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”
Hi, everyone. I’m not quite ready to give up the holiday tunes, so here’s the Preservation Hall Jazz Band doing “Walking in a Winter Wonderland.” This track is particularly special to me; my buddy, Ronell Johnson, is the lead vocalist. Enjoy!