In Vietnam, the appreciation for ABBA has been going strong since the late 1970s. Much like the Beatles in America, the ABBA ...

One of my favorite holiday song lyrics appears in “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”. Imagine Judy Garland crooning: “Someday soon, we all will be together / If the Fates allow / Until then, ...

For years, Snopes has covered the origins and myths attached to classic holiday songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Jingle Bells." We've also dived into the possibly unsavory history of ...

As 2025 draws to a close and the holiday season is in full swing, The Chapel Hill Media Group (97.9 The Hill and Chapelboro.com) would like to wish you and yours the warmest, brightest and happiest ...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono whisper a touching message at the start of Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - but many fans have been mishearing it for decades since the 1971 release ...

Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic material, some strong language, some sexual material and brief drug use). In theaters Dec. 25. If there’s one slam-dunk choice in “Song Sung Blue,” ...

You may not know it (yet), but lots of holiday earworms have the work of a Pennsylvanian — or several — behind them. From 19th-century religious hymns to covers of Christmas classics by some of the ...

(ANALYSIS) For a stretch of recent American history, there was really only one major cultural skirmish over Christmas. It began quietly in the 1990s, in both shopping malls and corporate boardrooms, ...

On the six-seventh day of Christmas, my elementary music teacher gave to me … a silly holiday song to sing by the tree. Like many of his colleagues around the country, Tyler Bishop, who teaches music ...

After breaking into the music industry as back-up singers for queer disco legend Sylvester, the duo of Martha Wash & Izora Armstead—formerly known as Two Tons O’ Fun—made it big on their own with the ...