A Thanksgiving Playlist
Vintage music for Thanksgiving week
In the past few years I’ve been making an effort to slow down in November and take the time to appreciate what a special month this is: harvested crop fields, a cold nip in the air, woodsmoke, crunchy fallen leaves and a moment to reflect on all I’m grateful for.
All around us, retail businesses have already moved on to Christmas, but we can still pause to celebrate this important holiday of family and gratitude. We don’t live near any relatives, so the Thanksgiving holiday is always a bit trying for me. Creating cozy traditions like special festive music has been a great help. And who says we can’t do it with a bit of 1940s flair?
So, this year, I made a vintage Thanksgiving music playlist to share with my subscribers! There are a lot of fun vintage holiday playlists on YouTube, but they blend in music from the 1930s to the 1970s. I wanted to focus on just the 1930s - 1950s to keep that older vintage vibe. It’s a great playlist to listen to while folks are preparing for Thanksgiving dinner or all month long before you get the Christmas or Hannukah things out! If you find any music you think should be added, please comment below!
And for my Canadian subscribers, feel free to bookmark this playlist for your Thanksgiving next year in October!
LISTEN HERE!
And for those of you who need some vintage football music to add into the mix, here’s a great playlist I found!
This is so fun, Sarah!! We'll for sure be listening for our Thanksgiving cooking and dining! I think it'll just be our family for Thanksgiving, and with everything careening toward Christmas already, I want to savor this.
Thank you for the playlists! I see favorites on both of them. I enjoyed looking at the ads for turkey dinners because I live about 20 miles from KC. Several of the names are familiar: the Savoy is still open and I think at the original location. The Hotel Continental and Bellerive I think are now luxury apartments. The Hotel Phillips, Muehelbach, Ambassador, and President are still in operation under Hilton or Marriott. An interesting tidbit of history on the Hotel President; it closed in 1980 and stood empty until the early 2000s when a developer wanted to reopen it. When they went in to look at it, they had to wear filter masks because there was a foot or more of pigeon dung throughout the first floor! It reopened in 2005 complete with the original Drum Room which opened the first time in 1941. Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra (amongst other famous singers I’m sure!) performed there. Sometimes I forget how much history KC has! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!