"Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano.^[1] With its simple Spanish chorus (the traditional Christmas/New Year greeting, "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad" meaning "Merry Christmas, a prosperous year and happiness") and equally simple Englishverse "I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart", it has become a classic Christmas pop song in the United States, throughout the Spanish-speaking world and internationally.

Feliciano's version of "Feliz Navidad" (in which he plays both an acoustic guitar and a Puerto Rican cuatro) is one of the most downloaded and aired Christmas songs in the United States and Canada. The addition of the horns as a final touch was the idea of producer Rick Jarrard. It was also recognized by ASCAP as one of the top 25 most played and recorded Christmas songs around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliz_Navidad_(song)

Watch "Josephine Atanga - Wish You A Merry Christmas New African Gospel music 2012 Ugrecords1" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKBXNzphJs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Josephine Atanga - Wish You A Merry Christmas New African Gospel music 2012 Ugrecords1

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England.^[1] The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition wherein wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to the carolers on Christmas Eve, such as figgy puddings that were very much like modern day Christmas puddings.^[2][3] It is one of the few English traditional carols that makes mention of the New Year celebration and is often the last song carolers sing, wishing all good tidings and happy spirits at Christmastime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wish_You_a_Merry_Christmas

"We wish you a merry Christmas.mpg" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVv7-Js-Ew8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

We wish you a merry Christmas.mpg

Friday, February 1, 2013

Ruby Murray, Songs of the 1960s.

Ruby Murray was a favorite singer of Irish songs in the early 1960s. We had an LP record by her in the Male Common Room next to the Canteen at the Medical Faculty, Colombo. Here are some songs of those years. Click on each of the blue underlined links to hear them. Hope you enjoy listening to them.

When Irish eyes are smiling -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN6tpk6JDL0

With Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSRnFy-7Hc

Danny boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezdXDLz2KM

Galway Bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGf9HljxRAU

Let him go let him tarry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWP2ZZEPvI

When I grow too old to dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMIncknjks

And not to forget Cockles and Mussels which gave me a clue to what Molly Malone died of -Typhoid -('She died of a fever and no one could save her', there was no Chloramphenicol those days) after consuming uncooked the unsold Cockles and Mussels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXEWB3x9LU

A sing-along of Cockles and Mussells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNdU6bGE5E

In Dublin’s Fair city

In dublin's fair city, where girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
She wheeled a wheel-barrow, through streets broad and narrow
Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh

Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh

She was a fishmonger, and sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they both wheeled their barrow,
through streets broad and narrow
Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh

Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh

She died of a fever, and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow,
through streets broad and narrow
Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh

Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh