Christmas Music - 3 December 2014 Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories

I have a nice playlist with A LOT of Christmas tunes that I play every Christmas. Especially when I am in the kitchen preparing pickled herring and making Christmas candy and ginger bread cookies. And very load when cleaning the house and putting up Christmas decorations. And the list is on repeat... over and over for days...

 I am listing three favorites here, and old I remember from being a child, a Swedish one and a classic one with Bruce Springsteen. Here they are:

Julbocken with Alice Babs. A song I remember my grandmother used to sing when I was really little that I had forgotten about and got a real flashback when I heard it a couple of years ago. As I have written in earlier posts, my grandmother was a big fan of Alice Babs. Little did she know that they were third cousins, something I found out when I started researching my family history.

Rolf Ren with Torsson. The little deer that dreams about working for Santa Claus but he is quit small and not so strong. But his dream do come true.

Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus is coming to town. Being a Bruce Sprinsteen fan, of course I love this version.

During December 2014 I will blog inspired by the blog prompts of Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories at Genabloggers.com.

The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family’s holiday history twenty-four different ways during December! Learn more at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com.

I have also joined #blogg24, a blogchallenge to post a blogpost everyday started by Fredrik Pallin from December 1st until December 24.

Releated to a celebrity?

I was home sick a while ago browsing the TV-channels. Tuned in on the Oprah Winfrey show and it happend to be the episode where she told the story of her unknown halfsister Patricia. Ofcourse I had to watch it and from my genealogy point of view I found it very interesting.

One of the questions you unsually gets when telling people you are into family history research (after the most common one - "how far back have you got?") is if you have found any celebrities.

Ok, so I have some famous people in my tree since I happen to be related to a man called Önnarp Torden. He lived waaaay back so its not exactly that Marie Fredriksson (singer in Roxette) and Fredrik Ljungberg (football player) shows up at my door unexpectly for a cup of coffee.

I have also been reserching a friends´ tree who had a drawing teacher who had John Bauer as a student. Not exactly related but you find those kind of interesting connections a times.

But to my closest family, my aunts, uncles and cousins I could break the news that we were related to Hildur Alice Nilsson, also known as Alice Babs, rather famous in Sweden and Denmark (and nice to be able to tell the Danishbranch of the familytree this as well). She was also in the USA working with Duke Ellington.

Hildur Alice Nilsson aka Alice Babs

My grandmother Lilly was a huge Alice Babs fan, both coming from the same area (Blekinge) in Sweden. Well, go figure, if only I could have told her she was thirdcousin to Alice and that her greatgrandmother and Alice Babs greatgrandmother were siblings.

Alice Babs - Swing it Magistern

Alice Babs Duke Ellington - Heaven