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[kathi17]

11/23 #1

One of my worst memories of Christmas was a day when I wasn't feeling well, but was supposed to go see Santa at the department store. I didn't want to miss Santa, so I didn't tell my parents I was feeling awful.

As I stood in line.......you guessed it, I lost my breakfast!!!

 

[spacekitty]

Woot! So glad you can see it

Sorry about that everyone! I wasn't comprehending what I was doing wrong, because that's the way I've always shared videos. Now I know to do it the other way so everyone can see it.

11/22 #1

Ok, gotta try this video thing, cuz I've never known how to do them.

Yippeeee the preview shows it in there. Only took me 3 years and space kitty to learn how to do this!! hehehe Thanks Spacey

I am SO happy that we got everyone on board now,
and that we can ALL enjoy the videos you are posting!!!

 

[CountBoredom]

11/23 #1
Another present I'd been begging for as a kid was a K-Tel record called "High Energy," which included many popular disco, rock, and soft rock hits of the day (Blondie, Gloria Gaynor, Peaches & Herb, Styx, Foreigner, et al.).

My parents relayed this information to some family friends who promptly went out and purchased a record and mailed it to us. Apparently, my choice of music made them curious and they took a listen to it. "I really don't know why he wanted this, but..." they told my parents. Christmas Eve: I open that present that could either be a record or a calendar (you know what I mean!) and this is what I discovered:

The album "Frenzy" by the High Inergy was not what I had in mind... the first song on the album was this...



Many years removed from it and there are one or two songs that aren't.... bad. Whew, but that was a memorable Christmas gift.

 

[JoanJ]

11-23
2

I always loved the Claymation Christmas and the California Raisins Christmas...

 

[bellastarr]

11/23
1.
Another one of my favorite Christmas songs. I remember my grandmother always had this playing.

 

[spacekitty]

#1 - 11/23

A cute little animation that somebody did for one of my fave Bob Rivers' songs...

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[Thayamax]

11/23
#1

Frankenmuth, MI boasts a huge Christmas store and display that's known all over the state. Bronner's is huge and has anything Christmas related that anyone could ever dream of. The displays are beautiful and people come from all over to visit. It is open all year round, not just during the holiday season.

 

[spacekitty]

#2

I've always loved this little animation for The Drifters' version of this song...

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[JoanJ]

11-23
3

Bronners looks like I place I could spend the day. Most of the ornaments I have for my tree are wooden things from Germany and handpainted things from Russia. I made mention, when my aunt who was then stationed in Germany, that I really liked the wooden ornaments she sent me one year. After that, it seemed everyone in the family bought me these things for the next 5 or 6 years

Silver Bells has always been a favorite of my mom's and mine too!!!

I had something else I was going to post but then saw this and started giggling so it gets posted this time

Reading Residents Say

 

[spacekitty]

#3

A song that needs no introduction!!

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TRIVIA:

The man who sang this song, Thurl Ravenscroft (R.I.P.), was also the voice of Tony the Tiger...
"They'rrrre Grrrreeeaaat!!"

 

[spacekitty]

11-23
3

I had something else I was going to post but then saw this and started giggling so it gets posted this time

Reading Residents Say

To them, I say: Bah Humbug!!!

I have a 'Charlie Brown Christmas Tree' story, but I will save it for tomorrow...

In the meantime, let's all Celebrate!!

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I loved all of the Peanuts Holiday Specials that Vince Guaraldi did the music for... it just wasn't the same after he passed away...

Here is one of his popular Jazz tunes that you may recognize, too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTA3aOfrDHA
(can only post one video at a time!)

 

[Reddhott]

im kinda diggin that video tho hahahahhaa

11/23 #1
Another present I'd been begging for as a kid was a K-Tel record called "High Energy," which included many popular disco, rock, and soft rock hits of the day (Blondie, Gloria Gaynor, Peaches & Herb, Styx, Foreigner, et al.).

My parents relayed this information to some family friends who promptly went out and purchased a record and mailed it to us. Apparently, my choice of music made them curious and they took a listen to it. "I really don't know why he wanted this, but..." they told my parents. Christmas Eve: I open that present that could either be a record or a calendar (you know what I mean!) and this is what I discovered:

The album "Frenzy" by the High Inergy was not what I had in mind... the first song on the album was this...



Many years removed from it and there are one or two songs that aren't.... bad. Whew, but that was a memorable Christmas gift.

 

[CountBoredom]

11/23 #2
While most of my Thanksgiving memories while growing up run together, I remember each Thanksgiving while I was at college. My freshman year, I was one of about a dozen students in the dorms who did not go anywhere during Thanksgiving break (with classes ending on Wednesday, it wasn't worth it for me to fly from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again). The Assistant Dean of Residential Students invited us all over to her house by leaving a note on our doors that morning, where she had prepared a dozen Cornish game hens and cooked all of the usual fixings for a turkey dinner as well. I made several friends that day--and it really was a very pleasant, and touching, surprise.

 

[Reddhott]

#3
sooo loved christmas eve when the grandkids were younger sooo much enthusiasm!!!
was so much fun... now they r older they all seem so busy...sad i miss those days!!

 

[liblue1]

11/23 #1
This is oneof those songs that will get stuck in your head....you have been warned...

 

[Debadoo]

11/23 #1

My son was born Nov 28th. He'll be the big 30 this year. He once did a calculation to see what the formula was for when his birthday would fall on Thanksgiving. It's not every so many years, but something like 5 yrs, then 7 years, then 1 year (that's not even close to right but you get the idea). This year it's the day after Thanksgiving. Regardless, he pretty much always wants a birthday pecan pie instead of cake.

One year for Christmas his birthday his dad and I had gotten him the first regular Nintendo (he was 5) and since it came with a couple games, we decided to save the Mario 3 game for his Christmas present. I carefully made a slit in the plastic on the game just so I could open the box and remove the game. I played it each night after he went to bed, huddled up next to the tv with the sound down really low. I had to have some sound or it threw me off. I nearly got caught a few times when he'd get up to go potty, or even to come in and ask, did I hear music playing??? Hmmm I'm not sure, do you hear it now? No. Okay go back to bed. lol I justified this by saying I had to practice so I could play it with him, cuz I was really bad at those games.

 

[liblue1]

11/23 #2
Here is another one I wore out the record...I loved the show and the Christmas movie that began the whole thing....If you get a chance you should watch it....This one is so simple...and yet beautifully done...

 

[Debadoo]

11/23 #2

As to the earlier posting of the K-tel album. One Christmas I wanted one of their 8 tracks so badly! I thought it was called Music Express, but when I just looked that up, that wasn't it. I'd opened my gifts and no 8 track. I was so disappointed because there was only one left and from the size, it didn't look like an 8 track. It was way too long for that. I nearly didn't even want to open such was my disappointment. I'd been going on and on about this album for months before Christmas and told my dad that it was all I really wanted. Swallowing my sadness, I reached for the last gift, tore off the wrapping, and squeals of delight could be heard on the moon I'm sure! Sure enough it was my 8 track. I'd forgotten that they often put them in a long box so they'd stand up in bin at the music store. I think I wore that thing out playing it, and I'm sure I wore my dad out by playing it!! lol

Wow, wish I could like that Grandpa Walton video about a million times! I love him and they just couldn't have gotten anyone who could have played that role any better than Will Geer.

 

[liblue1]

11/23 #3
I loved the old Christmas shows....Here is one I still watch every year...they were so good......
(once again this is only part 1 and I don't expect you all to watch the whole thing..but you can if you want to...)

(I am glad you liked it Debadoo)....

 

[CountBoredom]

11/23 #3

My sophomore year at college, I again did not go home. That year I was in an apartment and my roommates had all retreated to their home for the break. After my last class on Wednesday, I made a trip to a local record store and rewarded myself with three cds (since Kitty probably wants to know, they were: The Best of the Art of Noise, Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits, and Oingo Boingo - Boingo Alive), and then stopped at the supermarket for some bread and sliced turkey. I spent the entire weekend eating turkey sandwiches, listening to those cds, and playing Ultima V on my computer.