Thursday Open Thread | Christmas Jams 2019

Posted on December 5, 2019 by SouthernGirl2

“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas”. The song has been recorded by many artists, but was a hit for Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra on September 18, 1951, and released on RCA Victor as 47-4314 (45 rpm) and 20-4314 (78 rpm). Bing Crosby recorded a version on October 1, 1951, which was also widely played.

A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth’s Grand Hotel.[1] The song makes reference to a “tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well…”; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel.[2]

It is also possible that the “Grand Hotel” Wilson mentions in the song was inspired by the Historic Park Inn Hotel in his hometown of Mason City, Iowa. The Park Inn Hotel is the last remaining hotel in the world designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and is situated in downtown Mason City overlooking central park.

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40 Responses to Thursday Open Thread | Christmas Jams 2019

  2. rikyrah says:
    December 5, 2019 at 4:17 pm

    DEMONS

    Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol’s account of his death. pic.twitter.com/DJMNIRxB3y— ProPublica (@propublica) December 5, 2019

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  3. SouthernGirl2 says:
    December 5, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    Liza, check your email

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  7. rikyrah says:
    December 5, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    Documents obtained by @i_m_m show McKinsey effectively recommending that ICE send people to cheap, rural jails.Coincidentally or not, that’s exactly what ICE ended up doing. The results have been predictably bleak. t.co/GpoiwTmIJz— Noah Lanard (@nlanard) December 3, 2019

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  9. rikyrah says:
    December 5, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    “On Thursday morning, Kyiv got its first look at Giuliani at work in the city when he met with Andriy Derkach… Derkach, who graduated from an academy run by the KGB, posted photographs on Facebook of the two men meeting at an undisclosed location.” t.co/EUiffGCO2f t.co/Qb3fhOd0Xj— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 5, 2019

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  16. Liza says:
    December 5, 2019 at 8:44 am

    Actually, the world has been laughing at us since November of 2016.
    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1202401954644865024

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  33. rikyrah says:
    December 5, 2019 at 5:15 am

    Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄

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