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unusual facts about Merry, Merry Christmas


This One's for the Children

Taken from the group's holiday album, Merry, Merry Christmas, the single peaked at #7 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart in December 1989, and #9 on the UK singles chart in December 1990.


Altdorf, Switzerland

There are several paintings here by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) whose family came from Hospental, including portraits of Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Merry del Val, the artist's father Alois Muller, his uncle Domherr Josef Muller, and a large allegorical work Alpenrose und Edelweiss.

Barinthus

Barinthus, a character in the "Merry Gentry" series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton

Dominick the Donkey

It was included on Volume 2 of the "Ultimate Christmas Album" series produced by Collectables Records and on the Christmas compilation album "Merry Xmas 2011" by Cinquenta Musica.

Ed Sayles

Sayles lives in Auburn, New York, close to the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, with his wife.

Far darrig

In Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, the fear dearg makes an appearance in the book Divine Misdemeanors, where he asks Merry to give him a proper name.

Feel the love / Merry-go-round

"Feel the love / Merry-go-round" is the 51st (53rd overall) single, by Japanese singer and songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki released on December 25, 2013.

Fleetwood Sheppard

At the same time, Sheppard was a favourite of the new Queen's, and John Oldmixon said that he made the Queen "very merry."

Flying horses

Flying Horses Carousel, a merry-go-round on Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts

Frohes Fest

Frohes Fest (German for "Merry Celebration" in relation to a Christmas celebration) is the second studio album released by the Neue Deutsche Härte band Unheilig.

Gregory Webster

In the Christmas season of 2007,he recorded a version of The Ramones song "Merry Christmas(I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight" with Rose Melberg (ex-Go Sailor, Tiger Trap, The Softies, Gaze).

Gunnar Johansen

As a composer he was also prolific with a catalogue of nearly 750 compositions in various forms: 31 piano sonatas, three piano concertos, three violin sonatas, a large 1937 work for orchestra (Variations, Disguises, and Fugue, on a Merry Theme of Cyrus McCormick), along with works for string quartet, oboe, and vocal ensembles.

History of Manipur

The Meeteis worshipped God through dance as performed in the Lai Haraoba (Merry Making of God).

In My Merry Oldsmobile

"In My Merry Oldsmobile" is a popular song from 1905, with music by Gus Edwards and lyrics by Vincent P. Bryan.

International Karate

Forbidden Colours, the main theme from the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which partly inspired the game's soundtrack by Rob Hubbard

Johnny Lee Middleton

Among the tracks on Dead Winter Dead was "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)", an instrumental medley of the Christmas standards "Carol of the Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," featuring a string orchestra alongside the electric guitars.

Josette Day

Her films include Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932), The Merry Monarch (based on Les Aventures du roi Pausole) (1933), Lucrèce Borgia (1935), L'homme du jour (1937), Accord final (1938), La Belle et la Bête (1946) and Les Parents terribles (1948).

Katharine Merry

Merry appeared in All New Celebrity Total Wipeout on 25 September, where she struck up a rivalry with the man who in her words "ate all the pies", John Regis.

Les Whitten

He was an investigative reporter at the Washington Post beginning in 1969, and shared the "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column with Jack Anderson there.

Li'l Jinx

Jinx was the daughter of Hap and Merry Holliday, earning her unusual name by virtue of being born on Halloween.

Licorice McKechnie

She married musician Brian Lambert and later appeared with Robin Williamson with his Merry Band in 1977 (she is credited as Likky Lambert on the 1977 album Journey's Edge) before joining Woody Woodmansey's band U-Boat.

Marty Pollio

He performed his act, along with impressionist Bill Sacra, and magicians Mac King and Lance Burton in a Louisville landmark strip club named the Merry Go Round.

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park

Charro Carrousel: This merry-go-round was built in 1950 by The Allan Herschell Company and was purchased and restored by the Scottsdale Railroad & Mechanical Society.

Merry Blues

"Merry Blues" is the first single and the opening track from Manu Chao's second album, Próxima Estación: Esperanza.

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

The two catch the miscreant and take him to jail, while Sampson says that the thief better be singing "Silent Night".

Ned uses Skype to show Hala that if she does not explain what she was doing at Union Station her children and mother may be injured or even killed by the Saudi secret police.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Gary Coleman, dressed as an elf, summons 'N Sync to take over. The boys deliver toys, presents, and good cheer throughout. The video debuted on TRL December 14, 1998. A reference to Coleman's classic sitcom Diff'rent Strokes is made when after Coleman tells 'N Sync to deliver the presents, they say, "Whatchu talkin' about, Gary?", a play on the classic line, "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?".

Merry F %$in' Christmas

Since the holiday season of 2005, Comedy Central has periodically aired Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas, an hour-long (with commercials) Christmas special featuring Leary and several celebrity guests, including Charlie Murphy, Carmen Electra, William Shatner, and the Barenaked Ladies.

Merry Widows of Joe Cain

The Huntsville-based band, The Pine Hill Haints, perform a song titled "The Merry Widows of Joe Cain" which, in its lyrics, pays homage to Joe Cain, Mardi Gras tradition, and the city of Mobile itself.

Merry-go-round train

This is the nickname (from its appearance) given to the automatic door opening/closing equipment located on the approach to and from the bunker in the power station.

Miranda Cosgrove discography

In December 2008, a cover of the holiday song "Christmas Wrapping" was released to promote the hour long special Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.

Moshi Monsters

The Moshi Monster TV show features music from: Sonic Boom, Beatie Wolfe, The Blackout (band), Portia Conn, Mop Top Tweeny Bop, Merry Twistmas.

Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Trailblazers

Speaking at the launch was Baroness Neuberger, Dave Anderson MP, Jo Swinson MP and campaigners Laura and Judith Merry and Michaela Hollywood.

Natchitoches Christmas Festival

Country music singer Frank Foster will the Grand Marshall for 2013 and make an appearance in the parade as well as perform on December 7th at 4pm to 6pm, the Northwestern State University Marching Band, several high school marching bands, dance teams from around Louisiana, the winners of local beauty pageants including Miss Merry Christmas and the Christmas Belles, and, of course, Santa Claus.

Orthodox Celts

Promotional videos were recorded for the tracks "Rocky Road to Dublin / Down The River", "Merry Sisters", "Far Away", and the title track.

Percy Faith

After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s, including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis for Mathis' 1958 Christmas album titled Merry Christmas, and Guy Mitchell for whom Faith wrote Mitchell's number one single, "My Heart Cries for You".

Peter Merry

Peter Charles Merry, Jr. was educated in his church's private Christian school.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Richard Henders

He has also appeared in dramas such as Pie in the Sky, Foyle's War and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Henders played the role of Merry in the 2006 musical production of The Lord of the Rings in London.

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men

In the faraway town of Bethlingham, an obvious pun of the Biblical city of Bethlehem and the Robin Hood setting of Nottingham, roved a band of merry men led by Robin Good.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

They can also be heard on the RCA Victor disc "A Splash of Pops", as well as on three Christmas albums — "Joy to the World" on Sony Classical and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on Philips, both with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and "Holiday Pops" on RCA Victor with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra.

The Merry Macs

The Merry Macs (with Carroll) sang a swing version of "Down by the Old Mill Stream" in the 1939 Vitaphone musical Seeing Red, Red Skelton's first film.

The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down

"The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" is a song written in 1937 by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin.

The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas

The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1968 Christmas album by Frank Sinatra and featuring his children, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Nancy Sinatra, and Tina Sinatra.

Twang!!

Robin Hood and his Merry Men to break into Nottingham Castle, in a variety of preposterous disguises, in order to prevent a marriage between the nymphomaniac "court tart" Delphina and the hairy Scots laird Roger the Ugly, arranged for the purpose of securing the loan of Scottish troops for bad Prince John.

Undeck the Halls

While Claire (Julie Bowen), Phil (Ty Burrell) and the kids talk to Phil's dad, Frank (Fred Willard) via Skype to wish him Merry Christmas, Claires discovers a burn mark on the arm of the couch.

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

William Reeve

Some of his other popular later works included a melodrama, The Purse (1794), a Robin Hood pantomime, Merry Sherwood (1795) (especially the drinking song I am a friar of orders grey) and a comic opera, The Cabinet (1803).


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