FredGrams.com is about beautiful, musical greeting cards for every Holiday and Occasion, and the national holiday honoring our fathers is no exception. If at a loss about what gifts for Dad would be most appropriate, consider a personal greeting like these.…
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…
HALLELUJAH BIRTHDAY! The “Hallelujah Chorus” from the oratorio “Messiah” (1742) by George Friderich(sic) Handel(1685-1759). Upon first hearing the work, the King of England, so emotionally stirred by what he was hearing,spontaneously stood from his seat, thereby establishing the tradition audiences…