Well, my pre-Thanksgiving playlist, aka cooking playlist, this morning was Taylor Swift. Don't judge.

Otherwise, I don't think I have ever bothered to put music on but maybe I will think of it tomorrow. DH and both DS tend to be loud talkers, especially when they're together, so we probably wouldn't hear the music anyway...

Put on a standards station while I am cooking early day, love listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. Sometimes I switch it out and listen to Motown. Afternoon once family starts arriving is usually football and/or card games until dinner.

Billie Holiday and opera

Patti Smith, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Jackson Browne. Currently I’m also taking a deep dive into the American roots music of the Arhoolie Catalogue.

Have to listen to Alice's Restaurant at least twice!

What I know is that “Islands in the Stream” will be mixed in. More then once. There will be some Beckham Challenge opportunities for those in the know to react to.

The world would be a better place if everyone spent some minutes in this challenge.

(Search Beckham Challenge on Insta, TT and most everywhere else.)

It started with this…

https://youtu.be/0qcJlpqnvXE?si=d89NZFeKkYP9hgzg

Sue, this Swiftie would never judge you. I listen to her often. The woman is a genius.

At noon, we always play Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie. I keep the CD with my Thanksgiving dinnerware. After that, usually music from the Great American Songbook.

Nothing Lol!! We have too many people, the music would be drowned out! 😂

Well, I am even more unhip that I thought! I did not know that was a Thanksgiving tradition. I guess I’ll be looking for it to go with the appetizers.

Imma goin to MaddieLee's!

If I am in the Thanksgiving mood we listen to the album American Angels by the Anonymous Four. It is beautiful, haunting American folk music.

This year we will already be sitting at a Christmas table and the 2024 holiday playlist— now swelled to 525 songs—- is in full swing throughout the house.

Lately, I've been listening to the Local Natives Radio playlist on Spotify, and my family likes this kind of background music.

I've been amping up the holiday music early, though, this year, including Handel's Messiah. I rarely play it before Thanksgiving, but I'm really feeling the Christmas spirit this year.

Kswl, I have an Anonymous Four Christmas CD I enjoy on Christmas morning, with my coffee while I put the clean dishes from the Eve away, peace before the next bustle. So lovely.

Well, we played Alice’s Rest-o-rant during appetizers. When it got to the end, the sing-along (it’s a movement!) the doorbell rang and my son and I went to answer, bursting into the chorus as I opened the door. My brother took one look, handed over the stuffing and wine, and walked back out. Don’t worry, he came back. So funny.

@bpath - my BIL is a Brit. He plays classical piano and sings in several chorales. He hates Alice's Restaurant, but when Thanksgiving includes him in our home he suffers though it. He greatly dislikes turkey, as well. Shrug.

Seagrass, DH was working while we listened, but I don’t think he would like it at all (which is why I played it then).:Too folk-y and silly for him. He’s a Canadian and always says he doesn’t feel like this is his holiday, but then he doesn’t like if we do anything for Canadian T’giving other than go to his family up nort’ dere. His mom is a Brit but picked up on Canadian T’giving, so we wish each other Happy Thanksgiving. DH is happy to eat turkey and fixin’s though. Shrug.

I know my brother was just being silly, it was certainly not the usual reception to our home! I was surprised DSage29 knew as much of it as he did, but he said he and his buddies pretty much memorized it in college.

@seagrass_gw Cape Cod - Great American Song Book a la Rod Stewart? I have all 5 volumes downloaded on my Spotify.

@bbstx - tunes like that but sung by the original recording artists!