Sam isn’t here to make friends, he needs a lover.
Sam Smith – I’m Not Here To Make Friends – 2023
Fabulous!
Videos
Fearsome entertainment
Everything but the Girl
A new track from Everything but the Girl?
Well this dropped into my YouTube feed this morning and I couldn’t click play fast enough. They still have it.
Everything But The Girl – Nothing Left To Loose – 2022
Night Six
One of Fearsome’s favorite tunes Kurstin & Grohl have given us for night six.
This Hanukkah rocks!
Kurstin x Grohl – Featuring Karen O – Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover – 2022
Have a Yule that’s Cool!
May Bette brighten your shortest day of the year! Happy Yule y’all!
Bette Midler – Cool Yule – 2006
The Hanukkah Sessions 2022 – Bonus post!
I discovered these last year. For any Foo Fighters fan this is all the Hanukkah presents we need.
Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin – Spinning Wheel – Blood Sweat and Tears cover – The Hanukkah Sessions 2022
Happy Hanukkah
It all starts at sundown this evening. Depending on where you are reading this, it may have already begun.
Whether you celebrate Hanukkah or not, may yours be joyful and bring you peace. To me, as a Goy myself, the holiday represents perseverance, miracles, light and freedom. I therefore I celebrate it in my own Goyish way.
Six13 – Bohemian Chanukah – 2018
Silver Bells
Tony Bennett just has that perfect timing and inflection for this holiday tune.
Tony Bennett – Silver Bells – 2008
Public Service Announcement RE: World Cup
Go ahead click play, she’s worth your two minutes.
Miriam Margoyles – The Big Gay Donation – FIFA World Cup 2030 – Stonewall
Santa Makeup Tutorial
Just in time for the upcoming weekend parties we here at FearsomeBeard wish to help you get ready. In case you are planning surprise your hosts by making an appearance as Santa we found this video most helpful. Well helpful if you aren’t already bearded, but who wants to sweat the little details during the holidays.
Check out Trixie with the incredible make up skills of her Ex, yes her Ex, transform her into Santa!
Trixie Mattel and Kyle Krueger – Trixie Transforms into Santa Clause – 2020
Now more than ever, may we play the Pipes of Peace?
Originally released in 1983, Paul McCartney has re-released a remastered Pipes of Peace. While it’s timely for the season, it is always timely for our world. May we find peace not only for ourselves, but for the children and our planet.
Paul McCartney – Pipes of Peace – 1983 (remastered 2022)
Peace.
In Support of Ukraine
Yesterday that Claymation Carol of the Bells video popped into my YouTube feed and since it gave me a giggle I shared it. This morning I took it a step further and did a little Carol of the Bells research and learned that it was originally written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych.
I then discovered that this year marks the debut performance of Carol of the Bells in the United States some 100 years ago. To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of its debut here and to raise money to benefit Ukraine a live performance just recently took place at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Here is the MSNBC report I stumbled upon:
I ended up needing a tissue to get through that report. Then I found this report from NBC Nightly News:
I needed another tissue.
From it I was inspired to find the actual Carnegie Hall performance. It was strange that in todays world of technology I could only find poor quality posts of it on YouTube, but persist I did and finally found this, it is superb.
Shchedryk (aka Carol of the Bells) at notes from Ukraine in Carnegie Hall – December 4,2022
What I have also found is that the song has roots in pre-Christian folk chants and a traditional folk tale that a swallow flies into a home to bring news of the arrival of a bountiful and prosperous New Year. As I type this into my iPad, I shed tears in the hope that 2023 will bring a new year to all of the people of Ukraine that brings not only peace but health and prosperity.
The Ukrainians – Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) – 2017
Long Live Ukraine!
A Vivaldi Winter
For me good music will evoke feelings and emotions. This particular piece has always delighted me. This performance of it fulfills me.
Vivaldi – Winter (from The Four Seasons) – Performed by Jonathan Scott – Organ of Basilica de Santa Maria, Elche, Spain – 2017
A Long December
Warning: Dad Humor
Since group of Crows is called a Murder, if you are Counting Crows aren’t you simply adding up a Murder?
I can hear you groaning from here
Counting Crows – A Long December – 1996
Back to December
I find that many December titled songs are reflective. Thinking about that it’s seems fitting.
Taylor Swift – Back To December – 2011
A Collective December
This tune entered the soundtrack of my life in my early 30s. That era in one’s life when, for at least me, we are in a transition from young to mature that is just plain exhilarating. Fearsome has always rather enjoyed it.
Collective Soul – December – 1995
It’s December!
Where did the year go?
Oh well let’s kick it off with a tune we can dance to.
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh What A Night) – 1975
Would you mind?
Sharing the night together?
This blast from my past popped into my YouTube feed this morning. I can’t resist posting it right here. I hope y’all don’t mind. Damn the memories are good!
…Oh and his name was Reed, my first love.
Dr. Hook – Sharing The Night Together – 1978
Together Again
When I find beautiful things I like to share them.
Janet Jackson – Together Again (Deeper Remix) – 2022
Simple, beautiful and sensual.
Be Yourself
This song was HOT back in my high school days.
From partying to it with my Gamma Nu Delta brothers at one of our high school fraternity parties, to cranking it out of a cassette jam box on the marching band bus on its way to a competition, this tune moved every tush in the place. We even cut a rug to it at our William Fleming High School prom that year. Cameo sure could turn out some good tunes.
Cameo – Be Yourself – 1982
Look What You Made Me Do
Happy Halloween!
Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do (Halloween Dance Video) – Choreography- Mihran TV – Published 2017
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