Music of 2023

Albums I Listened to the Most in 2023:

• Anastasia
• Aurora by Daisy Jones and the Six
• Barbie
• The Color Purple
• Elf: The Musical
• Footloose
• Freaky Friday: The Musical
• Grease
• Home Alone
• The Little Mermaid
• Mamma Mia!
• Phantom of the Opera
• A Very She & Him Christmas
• White Christmas
• Wonka

Artists I Listened to the most in 2023:

• Abba
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Bee Gees
• Britney Spears
• Donna Summer
• Earth, Wind, and Fire
• Elton John
• Frank Sinatra
• George Michael
• John Williams
• Kelly Clarkson
• Lionel Richie
• Michael Buble
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Stevie Wonder

Songs I listened to most in 2023:

• After the Love Has Gone
• All I Want for Christmas is You
• Dancing Queen
• Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
• Flowers
• Holding Out for A Hero
• I Will Survive
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Let's Stay Together
• Livin' on a Prayer
• No Scrubs
• Over the Rainbow
• Part of Your World
• White Christmas

AmaWaterways Cruise Playlist

Disco Dance Party

• Boogie Wonderland
• Dancing Queen
• Every Breath You Take
• Footloose
• Sweet Caroline
• Take Me Home, Country Road
• YMCA

Erwin Nyhoff

•  All of Me
• All Along the Watchtower
• Brown Eyed Girl
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain
• Homeward Bound
• Imagine
• Johnny B. Goode
• Mr. Tamborine Man
• Proud Mary
• Satisfaction
• She's Always a Woman
• That's All Right

Piano and DJ Man

• All My Ex's Live in Texas
• Bad Moon Rising
• Bikers Shuffle
• Blueberry Hill
• Can't Help Falling in Love
• Chattahoochee
• Cotton Eyed Joe
• Crazy
• Cupid Shuffle
• Dancing Queen
• Disco Inferno
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• Eye in The Sky
• Friends in Low Places
• I'm Still Standing
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• La Bamba
• Let's Groove
• Super Freak
• Sweet Caroline
• Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

String Quartet

• The Godfather
• Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
• The Pink Panther
• Sway

Movies of 2023

Best Movies I watched in 2023:

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
• The Color Purple
• Barbie
• A Man Called Otto
• Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
• Wonka
• The Flash
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

TV of 2023

Best TV shows I watched in 2023:

• Ahsoka
• The Challenge
• The Chosen
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• House of Villains
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• The Terminal List
• The Traitors
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
• The Walking Dead: Dead City

Christmas Orchestra Concert

 We went to the Orchestra Christmas Concert at Syracuse High.  Here are the songs they performed:

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Christmastime is Here
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• First Noel
• Good King Wenceslas
• Happy Holidays/ Holiday Season
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• Jingle Bells
• Joy to the World
• The Nutcracker Suite
• Silent Night
• Sleigh Ride
• Sleighin' It
• What Child is This?
• We Three Kings

Station Park

 

Books of 2023

 Best Books I Read in 2023:

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Salt to the Sea by Ruth Sepetys
• The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Christmas Playlists

Favorite Christmas Songs:

• All I Want for Christmas is You by Kelly Clarkson
• All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• Bakin' Cookies
• Because It's Christmas
• Believe from The Polar Express
• Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)
• Carol of the Bells
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• Christmas in the Islands
• Christmas Island
• The Christmas Song
• Christmas Waltz
• Christmastime is Here
• Cold December Night
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Deck the Halls
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• Do They Know It's Christmas?
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Extraordinary Merry Christmas
• Feliz Navidad
• First Noel
• Frosty the Snowman
• God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
• Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer
• Happy Days by Backstreet Boys
• Happy Holidays/ The Holiday Season
• Happy Xmas (War is Over)
• Hard Candy Christmas
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• A Holly Jolly Christmas
• Homeless from the Forgotten Carols
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
• I Saw Three Ships
• I Wish it Was Christmas Today
• I'll Be Home for Christmas
• Ice Dance from Edward Scissorhands
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
• Joy to the World
• Kiss Me at Midnight
• Last Christmas
• Let it Snow!
• Like it's Christmas by Jonas Brothers
• Little Jack Frost Get Lost
• Little Saint Nick
• Mary's Boy Child
• A Marshmallow World
• Mele Kalikimaka
• Merry Christmas Darling
• Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
• Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
• Mistletoe and Holly
• The Most Wonderful Day of the Year
• My Grown Up Christmas List
• My Christmas Tree
• My Favorite Things
• O Christmas Tree
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• O Holy Night
• Once Upon a December from Anastasia
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Run Rudolph Run
• Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
• Santa Tell Me
• Silent Night
• Silver Bells
• Silver and Gold
• Sleigh Ride
• Snow from White Christmas
• Someday at Christmas
• Somewhere in My Memory
• (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
• Take Me Home for Christmas
• This Christmas
• Toyland
• Under the Mistletoe
• Underneath the Tree
• Up on the House Top
• We Need a Little Christmas
• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
• Welcome Christmas
• What Christmas Means to Me
• White Christmas
• Winter Wonderland
• Wonderful Christmastime
• You Make it Feel it Like Christmas

Favorite Christmas Albums

• The Andy Williams Christmas Album
• Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems
• Christmas by Michael Buble
• Christmas at Home by Donny Osmond
• Christmas Party by She and Him
• Christmas Portrait by The Carpenters
• Holiday for Swing by Seth MacFarlane
• Home for Christmas by N Sync
• A Legendary Christmas by John Legend
• My Gift by Carrie Underwood
• Noel by Josh Groban
• Rejoyce by Jessica Simpson
• This Christmas by 98 Degrees
• A Very Kacey Christmas
• Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson
• You Make it Feel Like Christmas by Gwen Stefani

Favorite Christmas Soundtracks:

• Anastasia
• Annie
• Babes in Toyland
• Elf
• The Forgotten Carols
• Frozen
• Glee
• Holiday Inn
• Home Alone
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Rent
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Scrooge
• White Christmas

Ogden Park Lights

 

Seen Live

Musicians and Shows I have seen live:

1992:

• Scrooge

1993:

• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Kenny Loggins

1994:

• Beauty and the Beast
• Pete's Dragon

1996:

• Carousel
• Pirates of Penzance
• Secret Garden

1997:

• Oklahoma!
• Phantom of the Opera

2000:

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

2001:

• Damn Yankees
• Forever Plaid
• Little Shop of Horrors

2002:

• Annie Get Your Gun
• You Can't Take it With You

2003:

• All in the Timing
• Deadwood Dick
• Jon Peter Lewis
• Oklahoma!

2004:

• Ashlee Simpson
• John Mayer
• Maroon 5
• Snoop Dogg
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

2006:

• Yolanda Barber

2007:

• Finding Nemo
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

2012:

• Aladdin

2013:

• Annie
• Beauty and the Beast
• Dancing with the Stars Live (with Joey Fatone, Tia Carrerre, Carson Kressley, Sabrina Bryan)
• Fiddler on the Roof

2014:

• Les Miserables

2015:

• Brian Wilson
• Damn Yankees
• Mary Poppins
• Rodriguez

2016:

• Amber Riley
• Jersey Boys
• Singin' in the Rain
• Three Amigos

2017:

• Human Nature

2018:

• Home School Musical
• The Little Mermaid
• Newsies

2019:

• Backstreet Boys
• Dionne Warwick
• Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Scrooge

2020:

• Footloose
• Frozen
• Tarzan

2021:

• Anastasia
• Big Fish
• Bright Star
• Matilda
• The Sound of Music

2022:

• Marcus Anthony
• Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry
• Rose Short
• Shrek
• Singin' in the Rain
• Sophia Bollman
• Tarzan
• Tuck Everlasting
• West Side Story

2023:

• Camelot
• Elf
• Freaky Friday
• Mamma Mia!
• White Christmas

2024:

• Beauty and the Beast
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Michael Wordly
• Newsies
• Oklahoma!

Elf

 My mom and I went and saw a live production of the musical, Elf, based on the movie.