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It’s shaping up to be the biggest Christmas for celebrity holiday albums – Enya and Sarah Brightman have joined the festivities.
The new age stars have both recorded holiday albums, which will hit stores in November.
Brightman’s A Winter Symphony features versions of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Happy Christmas (War is Over), Silent Night and [...]

Julianne Hough will release a Christmas EP, titled The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, exclusively at Target stores on Oct. 12. Selections include “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Feliz Navidad,” “It Wasn’t His Child/Mary Did You Know,” “Santa Baby,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” among others. The disc is part of [...]

Randy Travis’ very first holiday DVD, called Christmas On The Pecos, will be released on November 4th. The disc features live performances shot at the historic Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The 79-minute DVD includes footage of Travis performing “Silent Night” and “Rock Of Ages” in a cavern 850 feet underground.
Songs featured on [...]

Moviegoers will get a double dose of MARIAH CAREY this Christmas when the singer stars in a second film project inspired by her best-selling Yuletide album.
The pop superstar announced her hopes of turning around her disastrous movie debut in 2001’s Glitter with a starring role in new movie Tennessee earlier this month (Sep08).
And now [...]

Sony BMG Masterworks/NY) On October 14, 2008 Sony BMG Masterworks will release KRISTIN CHENOWETH’s new Christmas CD A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND CHRISTMAS. For her third album, Chenoweth covers a wide range of Christmas songs from “Christmas Island,” popularized by The Andrew’s Sisters to Kristin’s personal favorite “Come On Ring Those Bells.”
Recorded at Capitol [...]

With the New Kids On The Block reunion back in full swing and proving pretty popular, the band will reissue their Christmas album ‘Merry, Merry Christmas’ in time for the festive season.
The album was first released on September 19 in 1989, but will now be readily available again on October 14 (the first issue [...]

The Wombats have decided to get into the festive spirit by releasing a download-only charity single for Christmas called “Is It Christmas?”. The single is in the works to record next month and release for Christmas. Drummer Dan Haggis told the BBC he hopes to recruit a Liverpool celebrity, either Les Dennis or Paul [...]

Pieces of our Past
09/16/08
By Scotty Thompson
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Why in the world would I be writing about a Christmas song, the most popular Christmas song ever and one of the most popular songs of all time, in the still hot month of September? Just as the stores are getting ready [...]