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Pandora Adds Free Christmas Music All Year Round

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:00:07 +0000

Ever wished you could listen to Christmas music any time of the year you want, but don’t want to lug out your CDs? Why not just go to the computer, make a couple of clicks and you can be listening to all the Christmas music you can handle for free.

Pandora is a popular streaming music service in the United States that works off of the “music genome project”. The idea is you tell the service a favorite band or song, it builds a “channel” from that, plays you a sample to see if you agree it has chosen a good example, and then will play you similar music by other performers. You can vote “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” on songs so you can continue to customize the channel to your likings. The service is free for up to 40 hours a month with advertising, or for $3 a month you get unlimited streaming and the ads are removed.

Just this week the site launched a new area of over 100 “genre channels”. These are pre-built channels that you can customize as time goes on, but they attempt to get you a jumping on point to various musical styles. Once you go to Pandora.com/genres, and click on “Holidays”, you will find ten Christmas-themed channels for you to choose from. These include:

Christmas
Classical Christmas
Peaceful Holidays
R&B/Pop Holiday
Country Christmas
Swingin’ Christmas
Rockin’ Holidays
Jazz Holidays
Christmas Blues
Folk Holidays

You can of course build your own channels also, but these will give you a great jumping off point, and even if you don’t customize them at all, they will get you in the Christmas mood in a hurry any time of the year you want.

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Pandora Adds Free Christmas Music All Year Round

Fred – Christmas is Creepy

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:24:31 +0000

I have to admit that I’ve never gotten that whole excitement over Fred on YouTube, but apparently people see something there as he has been optioned for a movie. Even with all that in mind, this video singing about the creepier aspects of Christms is actually pretty amusing … and raises some valid points.

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Fred – Christmas is Creepy

Heidi Klum Christmas Song Wonderland

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:53:43 +0000

I stumbled across this video of Heidi Klum of Project Runway and Victoria’s Secret modeling fame singing a Christmas song entitled “Wonderland”, and I have to admit to smirking. My first thought was it would be horrible and … it isn’t half bad. I doubt it will ever be a classic, but I have certainly heard worse songs in my day.

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Heidi Klum Christmas Song Wonderland

Jeff Dunham Achmed’s “Jingle Bombs”

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:23:51 +0000

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s popular character Achmed – The Dead Terrorist gets into the Christmas spirit with his own versions of well-known Christmas carols.

A word of warning that there are few colorful words, but not anything too horrible.

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Jeff Dunham Achmed’s “Jingle Bombs”

Nat King Cole “Christmas Song” Music Video

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:35:02 +0000

Probably one of the most famous Christmas songs out there, Nat King Cole sings the “Christmas Song” which, you may not know the name, but you know the lyrics for sure. Sit back and enjoy!

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Nat King Cole “Christmas Song” Music Video

David Bowie and Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy” Music Video

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:07:33 +0000

This video of David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing “Little Drummer Boy” comes from a Bing Crosby Christmas Special, and while it isn’t exactly a duet you ever think of making sense, it makes for a beautiful rendition of this classic song. It strays somewhat from the more traditional singing of this song, but is quite enjoyable.

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David Bowie and Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy” Music Video

Bing Crosby – White Christmas Music Video

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:11:47 +0000

Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” is one of the top selling musical singles of all times (which is amusing when you realize only the Northern hemisphere of the planet could have a white Christmas as the Southern portion of the world is in summer at that time). All that aside, it is one of the first songs that comes to people’s minds when they think about Christmas.

This video is actually a scene from the film Holiday Inn, but does it really matter? It’s all about the song here.

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Bing Crosby – White Christmas Music Video

Jingle Bells – Indian Style

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:38:14 +0000

While the residents of India may not be known for celebrating Christmas, it sure is fun to see how someone imagines the traditional Christmas carols might sound if they were sung there.

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Jingle Bells – Indian Style