Go directly to the musical COLUMBUS DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM. Barcarolle (Notte Veneziana a Offenbach) (Columbus Day) “Barcarolle” from “Tales Of Hoffmann,” the one grand opera of Jacques Offenbach(1819-1880). Jewish/German born, Offenbach made most of his career writing light operas (operettas) in…
Go directly to the musical COLUMBUS DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.com. October 12, 1492 is said to be the day Italian navigator Christopher Columbus first sighted land in the Western Hemisphere. Shortly thereafter, CC and his celebrated fleet-the Nina, Pinta and…
Go directly to the musical INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM. A little historical background regarding Independence Day as a preface to reviewing the vintage musical greeting cards (FREDGRAMS.COM) celebrating this most patriotic of holidays. Without the courageous Declaration of Independence,…
FREDGRAMS, vintage musical greeting cards created by New Jerseyan Fred Miller, uses the good old songs to express the sentiments of virtually all holidays and occasions celebrated in America and abroad. FATHER’S DAY celebrates the man in our family who…
The American Civil War was the central event of our history, testing, in Lincoln’s immortal words, whether our “new nation [or any nation], conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…can long endure.” We…
Go directly to the musical INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM. As a musical video greeting card site, FredGrams.com celebrates every major holiday (and virtually every imaginable occasion) in song. Naturally, this includes that most patriotic moment on the American calendar, Independence Day, aka Fourth…
Go directly to the musical MOTHER’S DAY CARDS at FREDGRAMS.COM. Mother’s Day was the creation of a complicated lady named Anna Jarvis who organized services held on May 10, 1908, specifically honoring her own mother and to encourage the establishment of a national holiday.…
What song is more familiar to millions than the one beginning “Happy Birthday to you…!?” It’s been around forever, or so it seems, because it is sung more than any other song except perhaps “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow.” Do the math. Everywhere, everyone in the…
Countless times older people ask me, “What happened to the songs?” “Will any of today’s music last?” This is in response to the pleasurable, nostalgic rush they get using my musical greeting card site FredGrams.com or enjoying the live presentations of my Lectures-in-Song on American Popular Music. They…