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Christmas with Brandy ' s first single "Christmas Party for Two" was released on November 3, 2023, along with a snippet of Norwood's rendition of the Stevie Wonder classic "Someday at Christmas." [9] [10] A lyric video for "Christmas Party for Two" was released the same day, [11] followed by a lyric video for "Christmas Everyday," issued on ...
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
A Christmas party is held at the Beast's castle sometime after the enchantress' spell is broken, attended by almost the entire village. While reminiscing about the previous year's Christmas, Lumiere and Cogsworth get into an argument over who "saved" Christmas, prompting Mrs. Potts to tell the story.
Wassail! All Over the Town. The Gloucestershire Wassail, also known as "Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town", "The Wassailing Bowl" and "Wassail Song" [ note 1] is an English Christmas carol from the county of Gloucestershire in England, dating back to at least the 18th century, [ 2] but may be older. [ 3] The author of the lyrics and the ...
Snap-dragon (also known as Flap-dragon, Snapdragon, or Flapdragon) was a parlour game popular from about the 16th century. It was played during the winter, particularly on Christmas Eve. Brandy was heated and placed in a wide shallow bowl; raisins were placed in the brandy which was then set alight. Typically, lights were extinguished or dimmed ...
Smoking Bishop is a type of mulled wine, punch, or wassail, especially popular in Victorian England at Christmas time, and it is mentioned in Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol. [ 1] Smoking Bishop was made from port, red wine, lemons or Seville oranges, sugar, and spices such as cloves. The citrus fruit was roasted to caramelise it and the ...
The songs themselves pushed and extended boundaries of sexual suggestiveness, using nonsense (or little-known) words such as 'moolies' and 'nadgers' in suggestive contexts. [2] Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round the Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman , who wrote the majority of the songs' lyrics ...
In the 2012 album Once Upon a Time (In Space), Old King Cole is used as inspiration for both the lyrics and melody of the second track, also titled Old King Cole. "Old Queen Cole" was the name of a song by musical duo Ween, from their album, "GodWeenSatan: The Oneness"; the title and lyrics suggest a reference to the nursery rhyme.