It’s that time again and were back to the roots of Mark On The Arts, where everything began 24 years ago with the very first Christmas Playlist. At the time it featured then cutting edge/now Holiday classic recordings like The Pointer Sisters’ “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, John Cougar Mellenkamp’s “I Saw Mommy Kissing … Read more
2020. A year of many unanticipated changes, none good. The most recent, when I published my first Halloween Playlist, Facebook informed us my forever platform of Facebook Notes was going to be retired the next day. Knowing even I’d never read all of this as an extended post, I decided the answer was something many … Read more
The holidays seem to come faster each year, and with Thanksgiving being late, the annual holiday playlist took on some urgency, especially with the void of entries this year. It almost became an anniversary year, except next year will be the twentieth anniversary of this list. Where did that time go? There were so few … Read more
And here we are at that time of season again. This has been a year of life imitating art imitating life as in the midst of attempting to assemble this playlist, I helped produce TWO separate Christmas shows, the wonderful new musical version of the iconic perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story, and a fun salute … Read more
Holy cow, how can it be that time of year again? The last month has been full of searching Spotify and sifting through this year’s slate of potential Christmas CDs vying for the top slots. It’s a significantly more mixed bag than last year with a variety of old and new pop acts and the … Read more