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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 1 - Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5cX_ncZLls?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe><br /><b>Did you know?</b><br /><br />That Christmas is my favourite time of year?<br /><br />Happy Christmas Everyone...<br /><br />RJ X<br /><br /><div><div><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas</li><li>Greg Lake -I Believe In Father Christmas</li><li>Bing Crosby - White Christmas</li><li>Take That - Babe</li><li>East 17 - Stay Another Day</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-6-chris-de.html" target="_blank">Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-7-pogues-and.html" target="_blank">The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-8-johnny.html" target="_blank">Johnny Mathis, When a child is born</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 1 - Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas

Did you know? That Christmas is my favourite time of year? Happy Christmas Everyone... RJ X RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs... Band Aid (...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 3 - Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 3 - Bing Crosby - White Christmas

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs... ... ... Bing Crosby - White Christmas Take That - Babe East 17 - Stay Another Day Chris de Burgh - A S...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 4 - Take That - Babe

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 4 - Take That - Babe

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs... ... ... ... Take That - Babe East 17 - Stay Another Day Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling Th...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 5 - East 17 - Stay Another Day

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BXR5dgRmO0?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b><br /><div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-5-east-17.html" target="_blank">East 17 - Stay Another Day</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-6-chris-de.html" target="_blank">Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-7-pogues-and.html" target="_blank">The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-8-johnny.html" target="_blank">Johnny Mathis, When a child is born</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 5 - East 17 - Stay Another Day

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs... ... ... ... ... East 17 - Stay Another Day Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling The Pogues an...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 6 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/49k1EQdoMeU?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><b>Did you know?</b><br /><br />Though wood engravers produced prints with religious themes in the European Middle Ages, the first commercial Christmas and New Year’s card was designed in London, England in 1843.<br /><br />John Callcott Horsley (1817 – 1903), a British narrative painter and a Royal Academician, designed the first Christmas and New Year’s card at the suggestion and request of his friend Sir Henry Cole, who was the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Horsley designed the first Christmas card in 1840, but it went on sale only in 1843, when one thousand cards were offered for 1s each.<br /><br />The card was not received without controversy, for it showed a family raising their glasses to toast Christmas. Puritans immediately denounced it. The idea was a hit with others. Christmas card became very popular, and other artists quickly followed Horsley’s concept. A particularly popular card was designed by English artist William Egley in 1849.<br /><br />The first Christmas cards were printed in 1843 in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick Court, Holborn, London, and hand-coloured by an artist named Mason. They were lithographed on stiff cardboard, with the greeting, “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.” It also states that is was “Published at Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, 12 Old Bond Street, London.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br /><div><div><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-6-chris-de.html" target="_blank">Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-7-pogues-and.html" target="_blank">The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-8-johnny.html" target="_blank">Johnny Mathis, When a child is born</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 6 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

Did you know? Though wood engravers produced prints with religious themes in the European Middle Ages, the first commercial Christmas an...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 7 - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9jbdgZidu8?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><b>Did you know?</b><br /><br /><ul><li>Christmas was once a moveable feast celebrated at many different times during the year. The choice of December 25, was made by Pope Julius I, in the 4th century A.D., because this coincided with the pagan rituals of Winter Solstice, or Return of the Sun. The intent was to replace the pagan celebration with the Christian one. </li><li>Long before it was used as a "kiss encourager" during the Christmas season, mistletoe had long been considered to have magic powers by Celtic and Teutonic peoples. It was said to have the ability to heal wounds and increase fertility. Celts hung mistletoe in their homes in order to bring themselves good luck and ward off evil spirits. </li></ul><br /><div><div><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-7-pogues-and.html" target="_blank">The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-8-johnny.html" target="_blank">Johnny Mathis, When a child is born</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 7 - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

Did you know? Christmas was once a moveable feast celebrated at many different times during the year. The choice of December 25, was mad...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 8 - Johnny Mathis, When a child is born

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZ6hJNGZ8vg?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Did you know?</b><br /><br /><div>According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are 2,106 million children under age 18 in the world. If there are on average 2.5 children per household, Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles. To reach all 842 million stops, Santa would need to travel between houses in 2/10,000 second, which means he would need to accelerate 12.19 million miles (20.5 billion meters) per second on each stop. The force of this acceleration would reduce Santa to “chunky salsa.”<br /><div><b><br /></b><br /><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-8-johnny.html" target="_blank">Johnny Mathis, When a child is born</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 8 - Johnny Mathis, When a child is born

Did you know? According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are 2,106 million children under age 18 in the world. If t...

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Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 9 - Jona Lewie, Stop the Cavalry

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EOe18JcatZo?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><b>Did you know?</b><br /><br /><div><ol><li>Each year there are approximately 20,000 “rent-a-Santas” across the United States. “Rent-a-Santas” usually undergo seasonal training on how to maintain a jolly attitude under pressure from the public. They also receive practical advice, such as not accepting money from parents while children are looking and avoiding garlic, onions, or beans for lunch.</li><li>Early illustrations of St. Nicholas depict him as stern, commanding, and holding a birch rod. He was more a symbol of discipline and punishment than the jolly, overweight elf children know today</li></ol><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li>...</li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-9-jona-lewie.html" target="_blank">Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry</a></li><li><a href="http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-songs-top-ten-no-10-wham-last.html" target="_blank">Wham - Last Christmas</a></li></ol></div></div>