Archives for December 24, 2008

Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, “The Lord’s Bright Blessing” (from Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol):

Louis Armstrong recites Clement Moore’s “‘The Night Before Christmas,” recorded at his home in Queens on February 26, 1971:

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,

And therefore let’s be merry.

George Wither, “Poem on Christmas”