A Nana Mouskouri Christmas
One of our silly family traditions, (and we have plenty of them) is
the Christmas music selection for Christmas dinner. Every year a
different family member was in charge of the music during the
dinner and throughout the evening. I think it was my Mom that
started all this. I remember being very young and she would remind
me in like September that it would be my turn.
I of course would spend the oncoming months furiously researching
the hundreds of Christmas albums we had trying to come up with the
most crowd pleasing playlist I could think of. I liked all kinds of
Christmas music, My Mom was very much a fan of
Anne Murray and
Nana
Mouskouri but my Dad liked music ranging from Classical
Christmas Choral music to good old fashioned Country and
Western.
One year it was my brothers turn, he had told Mom that it would be
an Elvis Christmas, she was pretty happy as who doesn't like Elvis?
As it turned out however he meant
Elvis
Costello.
My parents were mortified, but I will never forget the ruckus it
caused and although I assisted my parents in talking some sense
into my brother, under the table, I was tapping my toes in glee to
the tempo of
What's So Funny Bout' Peace Love and Understanding?