SNOW!
Despite Richard Curtis's insistance otherwise, snow in London is not all that frequent.
So it thrills, even if our tiny amounts seem desultory to someone from an actually snowy country (they won't waste much time telling you this).
It also dominates the press who finally have an excuse to shove doom off their front pages and instead feature the unalloyed delight of children tobogganing on tea trays. Before the pages return to norm next day, acccusing Britons of being work-shirkers, calling into school and work sick to continue playing in the snow. Well, lockdown's changed that too.
At least we've been given something new to look at from out windows.
Time to dig out some shiver/warming up music...
Winter Playlist - Part 1, The Shiver
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fUv6fONukAbpFJcva4Vl5
PLAYLIST
1) Tim Rose - Snowed In
2) Georgy Sviridov - The Snowstorm: II. Waltz
3) Aztec Camera - Walk out to Winter
4) Antti Paalanen - Winter's Dance
5) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
6) Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating
7) Billy May - Snowfall
8) Al Petteway - Roving on a Winter's Night
9) Headless Heroes - The North Wind Blew South
10) Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia antartica [No. 7]: V. Epilogue (Alla marcia moderato, non troppo allegro)
11) Lidia Ruslanova - Valenki, Valenki
12) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
13) Bellowhead - Cold Blows The Wind
Winter Playlist - Part 2, The Warm Up
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BE3KE7PsqjYFTQ03EPnN0
(ignore the December songs)
PLAYLIST
1) Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)
2) The Mills Brothers - December
3) Chet Atkins - Winter Walkin'
4) Julie London - Warm December
5) Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes
6) Alma Cogan - Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo
7) Fountains Of Wayne - Valley Winter Song
8) Bernard Herrmann - By The Fireside
9) Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Winter Wonderland
10) Fontaines D.C. - Winter In The Sun - Darklands Version
11) Ted Heath - Hot Toddy
12) The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
13) Benny Goodman - Winter Weather (feat. Peggy Lee) - 78rpm Version
14) Tom Hanks - Hot Chocolate
15) Connie Francis - I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter
16) Ella Fitzgerald - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
#seasonal #winterwonderland #WinterMusic #wintersongs
