Happy Holidays!!!

Holiday Greetings...

 I usually don't blog much after Halloween...at least not for a while until I have something to say.  November brings with it the "Halloween hangover" (no, not due to drinking too much) and it takes a little time to get out of the funk.  This year some of my Halloween decorations were up until November 20th since I had my buddy John Pearson and his wife Maegan coming into town. I was able to convince my wife to let me, but my son kept asking me when I was going to put the Halloween stuff away.  It was promptly taken down on November 21st and packed away for another year.

December is always busy for a myriad of reasons.  One of which is my annual Christmas CD.  For the past 11 years I've been making a Holiday compilation CD to give to family and a few friends.  I had been doing a Halloween CD for about as long, but this year things just didn't materialize.

This year the song list is:

Jingle Bells Boogie - Gordon MacMillan & Diplomat Trio

Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty

Swingin' Home For Christmas - The Tractors
Jingle Bells - The Ventures
Frosty the Snowman - Jan & Dean
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Cadillacs
Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
Sleigh Ride - The Andrew Sisters
Christmas Cookies - George Strait
Snow Flake - Jim Reeves
Mele Kalikimaka - Don Ho
(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays - Robert Goulet
The 12 Days of Christmas - John Denver and the Muppets
Winter Wonderland (Remix) - Bing Crosby
Christmas Lights - Coldplay
Do You Hear What I Hear - Andy Williams
The Little Drummer Boy - The Makaha Sons
The Christmas Song - Mel Torme
White Christmas - Michael Buble
Christmas by the Bay - Tim Hockenberry
No Christmas for Me - Zee Avi
Christmas in San Francisco - Vic Damone
Christmas Time is Here - The Blue Hawaiians
Caroling Caroling - Singers Unlimited

Each year I have a new set of Christmas tunes and I do my best to never repeat a song (by the same artist).  I also try and put something relevant onto the disc.  For example - this year I vacationed in Hawaii, thus the Hawaiian tunes (althought I pretty much always put them on my discs) or...maybe this one is better...the SF Giants won the World Series so I have two songs about the Bay Area represented.  Alright, enough of this blog.  Happy Holidays one and all...you may or may not hear from me until 2011. 

Mark Harvey
Holiday Reveller