Carol of the Day: Dec 3rd · 6:18pm Dec 3rd, 2019
Today, we're listening to "Mele Kalikimaka" sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.
Also known as "The Hawaiian Christmas Song", this song deviates the seasonal setting from the cold and snow to a tropical paradise. Where Bing is enjoying his holiday in the sun and sending his greetings to the freezing folks back home.
... and he has to qualms about rubbing it in.
When I first heard this song, I was still living in Canada, and could not imagine celebrating Christmas on a hot beach--let alone one without snow. It wasn't until years later when I moved to Florida that this song finally had some meaning for me.
There is something to be said about how wrong it feels to be putting up Christmas light in a T-shirt, flip-flops, and shorts.
Though, we may have a cold Christmas this year. Temperature dipped into the 40's overnight.
... and I'm very happy about that.
Jump to Other Days:
December 1st - Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
December 2nd - Joy to the World
December 4th - Gospel Hallelujah!
December 5th - Good King Wenceslas
December 6th - Zie Ginds Komt de Stoomboot
December 7th - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
December 8th - Huron Carol
December 9th - The Marvelous Toy
December 10th - What Child is This?
December 11th - Christmas 1915
December 12th - Let's Have a Christmas Celebration
December 13th - No Time to Diet
December 14th - Twelve Days of Christmas
December 15th - Adeste Fidelis
December 16th - Circle of Steel
December 17th - I Saw Three Ships
December 18th - Green the Whole Year Round
December 19th - The Holly and the Ivy
December 20th - Google Translate Sings Christmas Carols
December 21st - Vivaldi's Winter
December 22nd - Wizards of Winter
December 23rd - Here We Come A-Caroling
December 24th - Christ is Born
December 25th - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
