Programming note: Tomorrow, Sunday, I'll be here with Part Seventeen of the new audio serialisation of my highly prescient demographic bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
~On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we preview the year to come via an extended edition of our Sinatra Sextet - also featuring along the way Dean Martin, the Dingaling Sisters, Tommy Dorsey, Eileen Wilson, the Pied Pipers, Gene Kelly, Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington.
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~As is our custom come Christmastide, we've been celebrating the season with special episodes of On the Town's regular features. Fans of our Café Continental can find our Christmas edition here - and those who prefer our Café Imperial can find our Boxing Day edition here. Pat Duva, a First Day Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, says:
I always enjoy these special musical presentations. Thank you for all of them through the years.
Of our Continental Christmas, Linda Powers, a Kansas Steyn Clubber, writes:
Two things stand out on Saturday's Cafe Continental on Serenade Radio: the Carol of the Bells history with the rendition you shared ~ WOW! and when you played the Smurfs tune. My Dutch husband Peter was putting together a Lego poinsettia plant at the time, and the first phrase in Dutch snapped his head up with a huge smile on his face while he joined in the singing. What fun! Everything else was entertaining too.
Of our Café Imperial Boxing Day Bonanza, Nicola Timmerman, a First Year Founding Member, enthuses:
Wonderful collection of songs! Haven't heard Nova Scotian Rita MacNeil for ages who died in 2013.
Terrible story about Roger Whittaker's parents.
And one more - on our Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols, from First Fortnight Founding Member Steven Iles:
Amazing as always, look forward to it every year and never disappointed.
Thank you all. On the Town is my weekly music show on Serenade Radio every Saturday at 5pm Greenwich Mean Time - that's 6pm in western and central Europe or 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere in the world by clicking the button at top right here. We also post On the Town at SteynOnline every weekend as a bonus for Mark Steyn Club members. You can find all our previous shows here.
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