Every day between now and Christmas, I'll be posting seasonally appropriate music videos.

Sort of like an advent calendar! Unlike a real advent calendar, where you don't know exactly what you'll be getting until you open it each day, I'll be telling you right in the headline.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018–Day 24: Bing Crosby and David Bowie

Dec 24

This is it! Santa comes tonight! Too late to sneak onto the nice list.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 23: Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra

Dec 23

It's 1967 and Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra are the kings of the Rat Pack.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 22: Thurl Ravenscroft

Dec 22

There are some songs that should just never, ever be sung by anyone other than the original artist. This is one of them.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 21: Nat King Cole

Dec 21

Presenting the most-performed Christmas song ever.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 20: Bing Crosby

Dec 20

This just happens to be the best-selling single of all time, holiday-themed or otherwise.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018–Day 19: Burl Ives

Dec 19

For some people, no holiday season is complete without two things: animated specials by Rankin and Bass, and songs sung by Burl Ives.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018–Day 18: Luciano Pavarotti

Dec 18

In 1978 Pavarotti sang a Christmas concert at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.

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The Georgia Straight's musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 17: Darlene Love

Dec 17

Spector isn't much of a role model. He was, however, a brilliant record producer, and in 1963 he released what is arguably the greatest Christmas album of all time, A Christmas Gift for You.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 16: Jona Lewie

Dec 16

This one is a bit of an obscurity, at least on this side of the Atlantic.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 15: Bryan Adams

Dec 15

This is possibly the most ’80s thing ever: Bryan Adams and Pee-wee Herman celebrating the holidays with a fake reggae song.

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 14: Heavy-metal and hard-rock edition

Dec 14

Christmas and heavy metal make for an uneasy mix

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The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 13: Low

Dec 13

Let's face it, Santa Claus can be pretty scary.