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"Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously recorded by Elvis Presley, although it was first recorded by Doye O'Dell in 1948. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a longstanding staple of Christmas music , especially in the country genre.
A float at Rio Carnival, 2014. A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as those of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Carnival in São Paulo, the Carnival of Viareggio, the Maltese Carnival, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, the 500 ...
The Junkanoo parade has been featured in movies, such as the James Bond film Thunderball (erroneously described as a local Mardi Gras-type festival), After the Sunset, and Jaws The Revenge. It was also in the season one episode, Calderone's Return (Part II), of the 1984 television series Miami Vice , taking place on the fictitious island of St ...
The parade was broadcast on local TV for the first time in 1946 (it also had a record crowd of 2 million people), followed by national coverage in 1947. Getty Images Pomp and circumstance
The Pasadena Rose Parade — which was canceled in 2021 and had a mask mandate in 2022 — returns without pandemic restrictions for the first time in three years amid concerns of a “tripledemic ...
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
Bigger builders like Fiesta Parade Floats, whose prize-winning floats have been a part of the parade since 1989, have also felt the pain. "It's really tough," said Tim Estes, president of Fiesta ...
[5] The 1929 incarnation not only won the event, but it was estimated that its parade float was the largest ever up to that point. [6] In addition to the Mummers Parade, Ferko also has a long history of performing in various parades and special occasions within the United States, [7] [8] Canada, [9] as well as places far away as France and Hong ...