Musical memories: Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

Every year I am always afraid of loosing the Christmas spirit before I actually get to Christmas itself. I don't want to be so sick an tired of Christmas that when it finally comes I won't feel a thing and just think that I hope it's over soon. I had a golden Christmas moment a few weeks ago when it was snowing, I listened to the first Christmas music of the year. I was on my way home from work on a bus and all the beautiful Christmas decorations and lights of Oslo was up. Somewhere between there and now, I lost it again. I thought it would help to come home to my mother's where I always celebrate Christmas and me and my boyfriend went home by train through a fantastic winter wonderland. But still nothing. A few hours after I came home I got a terrible cold and for the last 4 days I have had no Christmas feeling at all. But today my friends.. Today I have changed from being a sick little gal myself and into a nurse for my darling, who not surprisingly has the same bug as me. We are hopeing my mother doesn't get it too.

The three of us had a lovely Christmas lunch and after that I opened the chest and started to dig into the Christmas decorations. And then slowly, as I put every little ornament in it's place, half of it stuff I made in school over the years, it started to sneak up on me. Me and my mother laughed at the funny Santa we have that plays blues when you move him and a new Nisse got a new spot at the piano. Now I am really looking forward to going to go into the cold beautiful forest tomorrow and and getting the tree, and then, as I am decorating the tree, I am gonna listen to the greatest Christmas songs of all, in my mind: Nat King Cole's version of The Christmas Song.

You can listen to it here, and as you might notice, I have written about that experience before.

These are a few of my favorite Christmas-things II

About 5 minutes ago I finally felt the Christmas spirit. I have been waiting for this a bit and I always knew that Nat King Cole's - The Christmas Song would put my in a Christmas mood, but I was quite surprised of the impact the song had on me. I literary felt the the Christmas spirit float into me and actually ran over to my mother's chest of ornaments and put up a few more. Finally I feel ready for some Christmas. Great :)

So here is the song that makes me feel like Christmas :)

Great songs: Nature Boy

Some songs are just amazing no matter who sings them. Nature Boy is one of them. I don't remember when I heard if for the first time, but it might have been Ella Fitzgerald or Radka Toneff that sang it. Later I have really loved the Bowie-version from Moulin Rouge, Celine Dion's jazzy version and lately I heard James Brown's version for the first time, and it's amazing to.

This is what Wikipedia says about this classic. Apparently it's melody might be stolen from someone else and there are a wast see of different versions, even more than I knew about. To even post the list here, would make en utter chose, so check it out on the wiki-page.

Oh, and some YouTube clips of it of course:

Nat King Cole (The original)


David Bowie



Celine Dion