tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62525750759011609952011-11-27T16:57:18.572-08:00.......The Keepsake Chest........http://www.blogger.com/profile/06932052155426483001noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252575075901160995.post-39087901565883967882010-02-09T07:51:00.000-08:002010-02-09T07:51:41.587-08:00<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_z5jFe3SP8iM/S3GEjLWt17I/AAAAAAAAALg/iD-BRArHOTA/s1600-h/100_3176.JPG"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_z5jFe3SP8iM/S3GEjLWt17I/AAAAAAAAALg/iD-BRArHOTA/s400/100_3176.JPG" /></a> </div> A view from our back patio on Tuesday, 02.09.2010, Elizabethtown, Kentucky<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6252575075901160995-3908790156588396788?l=downsantaclauslane.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.......The Keepsake Chest........http://www.blogger.com/profile/06932052155426483001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252575075901160995.post-48927313352449166802010-01-17T07:34:00.000-08:002010-01-22T05:19:51.296-08:00<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><em>I found some very interesting information in the link below.</em></span><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><em>The link discusses history and names of Santa including Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, Christkind, Kris Kringle , Jultomten, Father Christmas, Pere Noel, Babouschka, La Befana&nbsp;</em></span><br /></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;"><em>&nbsp;</em></span><a href="http://www.history.com/content/christmas/history-of-santa/the-many-names-of-santa"><span style="color: #990000;">http://www.history.com/content/christmas/history-of-santa/the-many-names-of-santa</span></a><br /></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_z5jFe3SP8iM/S1MsgBO1DgI/AAAAAAAAAD4/vebSmzbKSQA/s1600-h/46612_SP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_z5jFe3SP8iM/S1MsgBO1DgI/AAAAAAAAAD4/vebSmzbKSQA/s320/46612_SP.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6252575075901160995-4892731335244916680?l=downsantaclauslane.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.......The Keepsake Chest........http://www.blogger.com/profile/06932052155426483001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252575075901160995.post-87496665910604741452009-12-13T11:18:00.000-08:002009-12-13T11:18:53.424-08:00<em>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</em><br /><br />"Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" is a Christmas song written by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman.<br /><br />Autry got the idea for the song after riding his horse in the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade in Los Angeles, during which crowds of spectators chanted, "Here comes Santa Claus". This inspired him to write a song that Haldeman set to music. A demo recording was made by singer/guitarist Johnny Bond, whose recording made use of ice cubes to mimic the sound of the jingling sleigh-bells. This inspired the use of real sleigh-bells in Autry's own recording of the song.<br />Autry first recorded the song in 1947; released as a single by Columbia Records, it became a #5 country and #9 pop hit. He re-recorded it again for Columbia in 1953 and once more for his own Challenge Records label in 1957.<br />Other artists to record the song include Doris Day (1949), Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (1950), Elvis Presley (1957), the Ray Conniff Singers (1959), Bob B. Soxx &amp; the Blue Jeans (1963), Willie Nelson (1979), Billy Idol (2006),Ludacris (2007), and Bob Dylan (2009).<br /><div style="text-align: center;">"Here Comes Santa Claus" was featured in Very Merry Christmas Songs which is part of the Disney Sing Along Songs collection.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6252575075901160995-8749666591060474145?l=downsantaclauslane.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>.......The Keepsake Chest........http://www.blogger.com/profile/06932052155426483001noreply@blogger.com