Some of you may know this as the closing theme to Die Hard. And that’s okay. Die Hard is a Christmas movie, after all.
Vaughn Monroe took this to the top of the charts in late January, 1946, a month after Christmas. This is a live version from a couple of decades later.
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I’ve never seen Die Hard, so I can’t intelligently comment on its inclusion as a Christmas movie. However, My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song. Furthermore, Ben Hur is both a Christmas movie and an Easter movie., plus it has a really cool chariot race in it, so it’s superior to most other Christmas movies.
The von Trapp grandchildren (descendants of Werner) expressing a sentiment many of us can embrace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxdAcmF9wio
Like matter, fruit cake can be neither created nor destroyed. It is simply passed from one family member to another.
Newton’s Third Law of Family Dynamics