so many

Sentiments wishing this year over.   Uh... Do viruses or moderate to severe dumbassness know what day it is?

Way FM

We need a little Christmas now

107.9

Pretty sure this is the station that had 24-hour Christmas music and has now returned to stuff from 20 years ago. I think that's a good marketing scheme, because there are probably a lot of people who are ready to return to regular programming and leave Christmas music behind, who are used to having it on 107.9 for Christmas music! So maybe they've earned themselves some year-round listeners.

Michael Tyler

Feels like Joy. I don't remember it before, wonder if it's new this year or last. Or if I just don't remember itSounds like those types of songs that are trying to be simple for Christmas but don't have the soaring melodies of carols. Or the cutting edge rock and roll that has become retro. So, not It came upon him midnight clear, not the easy jazzness of winter wonderland or let it snow or chestnuts, and not Rock around The Christmas Tree or Mariah Carey or Ronettes.

it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I've heard this one a lot this year. This old fashioned version, maybe Bing Crosby. But of course Johnny Mathis and Dionne Warwick and a few others. I don't know if the one that I've heard the most often from my childhood was played this year or not.  Hard to hear this after Christmas and on the Christian radio station but nobody thinks about this as much as I do. Followed up by Night before Christmas by some Christian singer.  Excuse me, some singer of Christian music.

The First Noel

Josh Groban and Faith Hill, this arrangement has problems with the difference between the straight melody and the grace notes, with excellent phrasing and excellent work between the two of them here and there. Maybe they should not dramatic it up until a little later in the song? I don't know, their styles are certainly different but I don't know why that should be a problem. Rather that might be the point.  Choir in the background and that part where it goes down when it just should have gone up is very interesting. I'd like to see what else this arranger has done with those interesting choices under their belt. Then I Wonder Where I Wander with a choir.

Bing Crosby

One current relevant thing, which is White Christmas from the man who was the premier star of the 30s and 40s. Vanessa Williams some children see him. Would that be one of the last Christmas songs this season?

sky stripes

They would have day off, but there's tons of straight lines in the clouds.

Christmas Auld Lang Syne

A Pat Benatar song about Christmas in America that includes in God We Trust which will never change she says, and a Jim Croce which must be an original. They said it became a hit after his death. Because of Christamas Day, but they just said Christmas, which I think makes it a little less revolting.

and the winners are

Sleigh ride and winter wonderland fact, I just heard Amy Grant's Winter Wonderland followed immediately by Michael bublé's.

Breath of Heaven

today is free McFlurry day

So all over the country people are noticing that McDonald's ice cream machines are broken. Or, that the staff didn't bother to turn it on. They're such a pain to clean, I understand.

those square codes

I hate it when the kids tell me that the phone is upside down when the square coat doesn't work. It can be in any direction. But they just think I'm a boomer.

at the Birds McDonald's

Boynton Beach and Military Trail there are maybe 60 Ibis and one rosy at spoonbill with a wood stork right next to him and seven or eight other wood storks in the area.

day before yesterday

Neighbors in D aren't home, and I have my outdoor chairs really close to their front door. There's a bright green iguana over in front of my door, kind of far away, but getting closer. Finally I just get up and go in my house but I can see that he's gone all the way up to the neighbor's door and bumped it with his head. it was like he didn't see it and he was trying to walk through the doorway. He wasn't moving fast like he was upset or mad and he wasn't moving slow like he was in a daze. I thought they had good eyesight but he clearly didn't think I was something he should stay away from or that is stationary door with something he couldn't walk through.

about time

Some more Amy Grant Grown Up Christmas List

simultaneous sky stripes

Two planes, medium height, both headed from east to west a little south of Lantana.

Duet

Andrea Bocelli and Mary j Blige Some Children See Him remains a favorite.  Also good to hear Harry Connick, I thought he had been eclipsed by the bubble man.

Mary j Blige

When I first heard Mary j Blige's Christmas album, I really liked it.  Similar to Lorrie Morgan's Christmas album it was a nice blend of what we knew they could already do plus with the little branching out. Full orchestra and a nice selection of choices. The ads for Tiffany featuring Mary j Blige and models engaged in Portuguese action, you know, lisbon?  Were quite annoying this year with the song favorite things. But I'm glad she got some play. And now I hear her on the radio Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  it's nice, but I don't know if it's the best choice for a single. Makes me want to listen to the whole thing again. but for having been released a while ago, it's nice to finally hear some of it on the radio.

what

A miserable song if you're just going to do it with a choir. If you take turns, it's good if you can watch it in person like with kids. Otherwise, no and no.

I think this is the third 12 days of Christmas I've heard

If you count the one that was for satire that included welfare checks, unplanned pregnancies and five cans of pork and beans

enjoying the piano

On King Cole's Chestnuts. Merry Christmas from one to 92, and you.

The Little Drummer Boy

Not as popular as some other Christmases, I think this is theTV version with those awesome sopranos.

Christmas Time is Here

John Legend. I like how jazzy it is, I heard it on Dick Robinson's 100.3. I don't remember hearing it before, but it's 2 years old?  At first I thought it was retro but I guessed that it was his voice.

recently

I said that the ghetto McDonald's was no longer ghetto {period} but here I am listening to them screaming at each other in the kitchen.

100.3 just played Diana Ross from lady sings the blues something or other.  Instantly recognizable but somehow versatile.

100.3

Nice mix of Christmas jazzy tunes, just heard Santa Claus is Coming to Town with some scats and then return to June Christy and Julie London and so forth.

Faith Hill

Where are you christmas, also saw that it was on Dolly Parton's playlist. For iheartradio.

sky stripes

West of congress, diagonals up and down the sky.  North and south of Lake Worth Road

Andrews Sisters

Winter Wonderland

online risk

I just played a game with two people from Jordan, another person's United States, and a person from United Kingdom.  I wonder if the two people from Jordan are working in tandem. I think that's what people do, play games together online in teams.

community check-in

The McDonald's right next to the West Palm Beach Lake Worth border on Dixie, where I got my free meals once a week from Val, is next to a shopping center that's being redone. World Thrift, keeps that shopping center a quarter full sometimes so it's very interesting to see the development and how many stores will end up in that plaza.  At the moment there's Latinos hair salon which looks closed, and some empty storefronts and a church and one or two other businesses. It looks like the family Dollar is open so I guess they're going to get a grocery store. Once the remodeling is done, Family Dollar will really benefit.

more firsts

Saw my first Lake Worth Beach city sign, which is brightly color blocked like those purple Disney traffic signs on Dixie near 15th or L.  I also heard o tannenbaum for the first time this year and that creepy ending of Carol of the Bells with a choir that sounds like medieval torture music mixed with Conan the barbarian Carmina burana at the end.

first this year

Hadn't heard Mary Did You Know till Nate singing at church today, and then a nice retro version of Jingle Bells, sounded like Lorrie Morgan for a minute but then I thought it was Brenda Lee a little older than when she did Rock around The Christmas tree.  1964 vs 1960

sky stripes

South Lake Worth, east and west, earlier today.

I just saw the sweetest thing

This woman, too old to be working, was running to catch the bus and the bus stopped quite a bit away is from the stop to let her on. Cresthaven near Military.

is that me singing into the fan?

Heard O Holy Night by Josh Groban a couple times.

more sky stripes today

This time, starting in Boynton and heading southward

Vanessa Williams

Do You Hear What I Hear?

it's a beautiful day

An Epcot or Italy day, crisp and blue sky. And sky stripes headed back and forth a little south of here, maybe Delray headed east and west Criss crossing the sky.

finally

The other day I heard Mariah Carey sing please come home for Christmas and now, finally her signature all I want For Christmas is You.

ghetto McDonald's

It's gone, and it's run by a better company, but it's boring now. I like the self-water kiosks, and I kind of like the retro decorations, but the whole thing is a gray beige color which me and up looking dirty, but right now it's just boring. Almost zebra print bench which is used in lots of them, it's not boring, but it is ugly. There's no color. I think maybe they should put a few logos on the wall.

Hanukkah Song

Nice to hear on the radio for several reasons, so many people in this area who celebrate plus it's a funny song which is unique, plus it's live. I don't really like his voice because he's not trying. But it's funny to have adlib lyrics. I wonder if this was before the OJ Simpson trial? Because he and Tom Cruise are used as an example of non-jews.1995 vs 2008

great palm tree lights

Between Boynton and Boca which reminds me of old times, two Christmases ago singing at Ed's church.

Mac Powell

A child a child

chestnuts

First hearing of Nat King Cole's chestnuts, but not the first Nat King Cole and not the first chestnuts. Reminds me of when I asked my mom if reindeer really know how to fly?

Black Box

The theater company is gone, but I am with Christ Fellowship.

it's that time again

Silver Bells

Anne Murray's version?  I heard another version last week. Barry Nanilow walking in a Winter Wonderland.  I don't remember this one.  Menards in Spanish Christmas carols,. A Little drummer boy mixed with gloria in excelsis deo. Ends with the phrase have yourself a Merry Little Christmas followed by my first Avalon of the year. Jesus born on this day king of all Nations behold the Lamb of God..

Whitney Houston

Finally hearing her version of Do You Hear What I Hear.  This time, I noticed the awesome choir behind her.

I was just thinking

yesterday, that I hadn't heard Mariah Carey this Christmas. And now I see that Apple has a special with her playing the Queen of Christmas, so did they do it on purpose so we won't get sick of her until the special, and then play her song a whole bunch to get us wanting to watch it?

Behold Him

Another Francesca Battistelli!

He's Here!  You're here by Francesca Battistelli  And Nat King Cole Come all Ye Faithful, thankfully short

lots of Christmas lights

news to me

Rocking around the Christmas tree, sounds like The ronettes maybe? and The first Noel period don't think I've heard this version before with a great female singer, and a boring background. 

hallelujah

surprised to hear the opening strains of handles how do you chorus right after Bobby Helms which was right after Mathis Winter wonderland but even more surprised to hear that it's an instrumental period full orchestra, no chorus.

air supply

I wonder when they did sleigh ride? I like it. Was it after all their hits?Followed by Andy Williams it's the holiday season.

today it actually is cold outside

First Celine Dion of the season, so this is christmas. She doesn't want a year with any fear also.

baby it's cold outside

Dean Martin

home for the holidays

No matter how far away you roam.  So after hearing Bobby Helms a couple more times, I'm wondering if people actually had a square called Jingle Bell Square.  If they use it on other holidays, do they change the name?

Taylor Swift

Santa baby sounds good with those country accents of guitar mostly. Reminds me that they should say, I really do believe in you, let's see if you believe in me too. Followed by Bobby Helms and another version of Chestnuts.

oh holy night

This was mercyme's version. I think one thing that might make it better, is if they don't bring in those drums until the Fall on your knees part. He's a great vocalist, but that background doesn't really fit but maybe it would be a good contrast if it wasn't there the whole time period.

Dean Martin

Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer.  I like this one, I don't remember the male choir in the background. Drums with the brushes, and tinkling piano. Maybe I was distracted by the German.