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!

Monday Morning Music - "Fresh air, fir trees..."

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I have in my head when I wake up.

"Snow" from the movie, "White Christmas"

White Christmas is a 1954 Technicolor musical film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas". The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and co-stars Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.

If you have the (mis)fortune of running into myself & my family at this time of year & it starts snowing, don't be surprised if we start singing this.  Consider yourself warned.

Enjoy!