Monday, 24 December 2012

Monday Morning Music - "From the land where palm trees sway"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Bing Crosby - Mele Kalikimaka


 "Mele Kalikimaka" is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase, "Mele Kalikimaka," meaning "Merry Christmas".[1] The phrase is borrowed directly from English but since Hawaiian has a different phonological system - Hawaiian does not have the /r/ or /s/ of English and doesn't have the phonotactic constraints to allow consonants at the end of syllables or consonant clusters - "Merry Christmas" becomes "Mele Kalikimaka"

Of course, I usually think of this scene from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."

Enjoy!

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