For decades, country music has been able to provide a playlist for any situation, including the holidays. Some of the best songs are by country artists, including these four songs, which are among the ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

Fans of the classic television Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" eagerly await the annual appearance of the little reindeer, but they may not realize the show has a strong Illinois ...

As a songwriter, Johnny Marks had a pretty good career. Although he penned 25 notable songs and is in the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, he is best known for three songs: “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas,” ...

I have a playlist of some 60 songs in my Christmas library, and they’ve been curated and culled down through the years. I’ll add albums — Burl Ives is hard to resist — and I’ll pull in individual ...

The baby Jesus and my mama, the late, great Harriet Helen Harriman, were allegedly born on Dec. 25. I say allegedly because I know my mama was; but historians debate the date that Jesus made his debut ...

That's not to suggest that "Old Town Road" and "A Bar Song" are the two biggest hits of all time. They're merely beneficiaries of a streaming landscape in which listeners are continually fed the same ...

SALISBURY, M.d. - Wicomico County got their cowboy hats and holiday gear out today for the 79th annual Christmas parade in Salisbury. The theme of this year's event was Holly Jolly Hoedown. Thousands ...

TWIN TIERS (WETM) – We decided to have a little fun and ask our team members about their favorite Christmas Holiday songs. Some sent the five we asked for, others didn’t have that many. Some had none ...

Two holiday staples sure to make the Naperville season bright are NaperLights and Holly Jolly Days. “NaperLights is the lighting extravaganza that goes all the way down Water Street along the river ...