A Very Trainor Christmas is a Christmas album by American singer- songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured). It was released on October 30, 2020. Trainor co-wrote the album with her brothers, Ryan and Justin, among others. It features artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Seth MacFarlane, Trainor's cousins, and her father. The album covers Christmas standards such as "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951) and "Last Christmas" (1984), with six original recordings. Trainor promoted A Very Trainor Christmas with public appearances and televised performances. Trainor and MacFarlane's cover of "White Christmas" (1942) reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. Several other tracks received music videos. Critical commentary for the album was generally positive, with praise directed towards Trainor's charisma and the material. It reached number 7 on the US Holiday Albums chart and the top 50 in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. (This article is part of a featured topic: Meghan Trainor albums.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Meghan_Trainor_albums> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1724: Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, based on the Christmas hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelobet_seist_du,_Jesu_Christ,_BWV_91> 1831: A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_War> 1991: In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev> 2009: A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mel%27s_Cathedral> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: Christmas tree: 1. An evergreen tree (usually a conifer), or an artificial tree made to resemble this, which is typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often an angel or star at its tip, and used as a decoration during the Christmas holiday season. 2. (by extension) Something which resembles a Christmas tree (sense 1) in appearance (for example, in having coloured lights) or shape. 3. (informal) Something which is elaborately decorated. 4. (bodybuilding) A pattern of muscles visible in the lower back, resembling in outline the shape of a conifer. 5. (chiefly military) 6. (aviation, nautical, slang) A panel of indicator lights in an aircraft or a submarine. 7. (US, aviation, historical) An alert area at an air base with aircraft parked in stubs arranged at a 45-degree angle to a central taxiway to enable them to move rapidly to a runway; these were constructed by the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force during the Cold War (generally 1947–1991). 8. (motor racing) A pole with lights, similar to a traffic signal, used for signalling the start of an automobile race. 9. (oil industry, slang) A collection of gauges, valves, and other components installed at the top of wellhead to control the flow of gas or oil. 10. (by extension) A Christmas party, especially one organized for (underprivileged) children by a charity, a school, etc. 11. (Australia) Often with a descriptive word: any of several shrubs or trees native to Australia which bloom in summer at the end of the year around Christmastime, and so may be used as a Christmas decoration; especially the fire tree or moodjar (Nuytsia floribunda). 12. (New Zealand) Synonym of pohutukawa (“a coastal evergreen tree, Metrosideros excelsa, native to New Zealand and producing a brilliant display of red flowers with prominent stamens around Christmastime”) <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Christmas_tree> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Christmas is more than barging up and down department store aisles and pushing people out of the way. … Christmas is another thing finer than that. Richer, finer, truer, and it should come with patience and love, charity, compassion. --The Night of the Meek <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_%281959_TV_series%29> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
