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When you think of holiday music, Thanksgiving probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But since it's a time for reflection and gratitude, we asked NPR listeners to tell us about a song ...
Sandler wrote “The Thanksgiving Song” with comedy writers Ian Maxtone-Graham and Robert Smigel. Maxtone-Graham would also co-write “The Chanukah Song” and Sandler and Smigel became ...
From the humorous to the heartfelt, there are several terrific Thanksgiving songs to listen to as you celebrate the season. When Adam Sandler was on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s ...
Here’s our Power Hour of music to get you through Thanksgiving dinner, no matter who you’re with or what it looks like. There are a whole bunch of versions of this song, and most of them are ...
Does “Bless This House” qualify as Thanksgiving music? Well, it is “adjacent,” to use a currently popular word. I have songs by Richard Strauss and Irving Berlin. Irving Berlin?
The woman who inspired one of the most famous Thanksgiving songs of all time is dead at age 83. The Associated Press reports Alice Brock died Thursday, a week before this year’s turkey holiday ...
just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the rambling story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83. Viki Merrick, a longtime friend, said she died in a hospice from ...
TWIN FALLS — A crowd filled Roper Auditorium on Nov. 8 for the annual Songs of Thanksgiving community concert. A nondenominational chorus of almost 100 people sang musical numbers appropriate ...
Celebrated local artists David Powell, tenor, and John Chernoff, piano, will present “Songs of Thanksgiving,” a vocal recital, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, H and 15th streets ...
“Jingle Bells” was originally written as a Thanksgiving song. “Jingle Bells” was written by James Lord Pierpont and published in 1857. According to History, Jingle Bells wasn’t even the ...