It's A Marshmallow World in the winter
When the snow comes to cover the ground...
Here's a fun double-bill for the holiday season - Mark's Christmas single, sung with his old pal Jessica Martin, plus the stories behind "White Christmas", "Jingle Bells", "Auld Lang Syne", and many other seasonal songs.
Ever since Mark began his Monday morning "Song Of The Week" feature, some of his most popular essays have been those that mark the turning of the calendar - a song for Christmas or Easter, Spring or Fall... So here, in response to reader demand, is a handsome, illustrated 280-page hardback of Steyn's songs for the season, a musical calendar beginning at the stroke of midnight at New Year with "Auld Lang Syne" and continuing through "My Funny Valentine", "Summertime" and "Autumn Leaves" to "White Christmas". You'll also find the stories behind songs for Groundhog Day and Oscar Night, Labor Day and Halloween, and never before published essays on songs such as "Easter Parade", "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Loch Lomond". These stories are "part memoir, part tribute, part music criticism, and altogether brilliant," says Powerline's Scott Johnson.
The cost of the hardback edition of A Song For The Season is $27.95, but for just one dollar extra you can also receive the CD of Mark and Jessica's Christmas single, A Marshmallow World. Jessica Martin is well-known to British TV and radio audiences as a superb impressionist, and to West End theatregoers as the star of Me And My Girl and South Pacific. Mark worked on Jessica's one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival a few years ago, and he's delighted she's joined him on what he hopes will be the first of many seasonal offerings in the years ahead. Kevin Amos conducts the orchestra in a fun swingin' arrangement of this Christmas classic that you're sure to keep playing all through New Year.As Canada's leading newsweekly Maclean's says, "Mark Steyn is the new Bing Crosby."
And don't forget, Mark will be happy to autograph the book to you or your loved one.
