🎄 Feliz Navidad 🎅

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I won’t be posting today, other than this one that is two-fold:  1) to wish you all a happy holiday, and 2) to fulfill a request from a friend, Gail, for a certain holiday song!  Gail, by the way, is rawgod’s partner and a patient, kind woman.  So first, the holiday wishes …

Whether you celebrate Christmas as a religious or secular holiday, my hope is that your day is filled with love and laughter, with family, hugs, and of course good food.  We will be happily sharing our Christmas dinner with Maha, Ali, their boys and their new baby girl, Naya, so you will have a brief respite from Filosofa’s snarky rants for a day!  Seriously, though, folks … try to put the gloomy stuff and the troubles aside for the day and just enjoy your friends & family as I plan to do.

And now, on to the music!

♫  Feliz Navidad ♫

This song is written and sung by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano, a favourite of mine.  Feliciano says he recorded the song while feeling homesick at Christmas, missing his family in New York City and his extended family further afield as he sat in a studio in Los Angeles. He remembered celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling.

“It was expressing the joy that I felt on Christmas and the fact that I felt very lonely. I missed my family, I missed Christmas carols with them. I missed the whole Christmas scene.”

The lyrics are in both Spanish and English, because as Feliciano said …

“If I had left in Spanish only, then I knew the English stations might not play it, so I decided to write an English lyric, ‘I want to wish you a merry Christmas.’ And then there was no way the stations could lock that song out of the programming.”

The song has been covered by a number of artists including Michael Bublé and Celine Dion, but I’ll stick with the original on this one.  It’s a fun holiday tune, a toe-tapper, that charted at #6 in the U.S., #25 in the UK, and played fairly well all ‘round the globe!

Feliz Navidad

José Feliciano

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart

Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Próspero año y felicidad

Writer/s: Josè Feliciano
Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Songtrust Ave
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

25 thoughts on “🎄 Feliz Navidad 🎅”

  1. Belated Feliz Navidad!
    Betty Hutton may be before ur time, yet the song is amazingly contemporary:
    check out “It’s Oh so Quiet!”…. Bjork did a fantastic cover back in ’95.
    ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas♪

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    • Thank you, Michael!!! Getting caught up on your sleep, eh? I’m glad! I did enjoy the festivities of the day, but now I’m ready for it all to be over, to get back into my routine, to stop always feeling like I’m five steps behind! xx

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  6. Thanks, Jill and I wish you the same! Thanks too to Gail, for reminding me of a song I used to love way back when…in Australia! lol It’s a song that definitely went global. Cheers, Meeks.

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  12. A nice Christmas song that was a slow burner over here. It didn’t chart in the UK until 2015 and that highest placing was last year. It has reached #29 so far this year. Happy Christmas to you and all your family and friends. Have a wonderful day! 🎅

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  13. MEEEERRRRY CHRISTMAS!!! This song is one of my favorites, even after I once heard it played ELEVEN TIMES IN A ROW in a store! 🤯 Enjoy the day, the family, the music and THE FOOD! 😋😋😋

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  17. Thank you, Jill. May your holiday reception be filled with love and laughter, and may your days and nightx filled wi5h happiness and good health, as best as can be.
    From Gail and I to you, Chris, Natasha, Maha, Ali and, family, and to your whole blogging family, be nice, and enjoy!

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