Mentions On The Internet 12/16

Clay's web/graphic design agency choosen for design magazine.

Logo Lounge Chooses Anoroc Agency's Creative for New Edition
12-15-2005

Anoroc Agency's logo created for Hideaway BBQ, has been selected to appear in the latest edition of LogoLounge. While exhibiting top brands and the latest trends, LogoLounge, known as the ultimate international guide in logo and identity design, features the industries best logos for study and inspiration. The book features designs from leading agencies around the world. Anoroc's identity work has been chosen to be featured in the most recent edition.

Anoroc is a full service strategic marketing, advertising, graphic design and public relations agency located in Raleigh on Glenwood south. With more than 25 awards for design and strategy, Anoroc was recently named one of the top advertising and graphic design firms in the Triangle. Agency clients include Clay Aiken, Rosen Divorce, The Bubel Aiken Foundation, Twiga Imports, Marc Brown Studios, 212 Media, Community Home Care & Hospice and Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center.

About the most popular Christmas songs.

Songs of the season
Mike Pound
Globe Staff Writer
12/16/05

For the past three years, two Joplin radio stations have switched to all-Christmas music formats during the holidays.

Ron Peterson is the president and general manager of Mix 95.1 (KMXL) FM and KDMO. Because KDMO tends to skew toward an older audience, he tries to stick with a more traditional musical selection.

To Peterson, Christmas carols are songs like "Silent Night" or "The First Noel."
"If you are very much into Christmas as a religious holiday, then carols like those are what you will associate with Christmas," he said.

Traditional Christmas songs include Crosby's version of "White Christmas," Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song."

"We play a lot of same music but done by different people. There's Elvis'' ‘White Christmas' but there are also versions by Whitney Houston, Clay Aiken and of course Bing Crosby," he said.

Here, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, are the most-performed holiday songs of the past five years.
1. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"
2. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
4. "Winter Wonderland"
5. "White Christmas"
6. "Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!"
7. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
8. "Jingle Bell Rock"
9. "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
10. "Little Drummer Boy"
11. "Sleigh Ride"
12. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
13. "Silver Bells"
14. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
15. "Feliz Navidad"
16. "Blue Christmas"
17. "Frosty the Snowman"
18. "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
19. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
20. "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)"
21. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
22. "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"
23. "Carol of the Bells"
24. "Santa Baby"
25. "Wonderful Christmastime"

Clay helping keep the Christmas tradition alive with 2004 'A Clay Aiken Christmas' TV special.

Holiday show pays homage to late greats
offBeat with PHILIP POTEMPA
ppotempa@nwitimes.com

There was a time when December television viewing meant lots of annual celebrity holiday specials.

Bob Hope, Perry Como, The Osmonds, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Andy Williams all did yearly one-hour specials.

Today, all that's left are the likes of Clay Aiken, Kathie Lee Gifford and Harry Connick Jr., who are trying to keep the same tradition alive in today's world of cable channel competition and networks worried about advertising and cheap show production opportunities.

Random mention -- negative content alert.

White Sox Conductor Says All Aboard the Bandwagon
by Scott Long
[article about baseball]

Hey, Clay Aiken, give me a jingle. I'm a good advocate for the hated and I've got some free time on my hands.

Clay mention in review of the new movie 'The Producers' from USA Today. Not very nice. The author has a history of bashing not only Clay, but all the Idols.

On the stage vs. on the screen
Two of the biggest Broadway blockbusters of the past decade, The Producers and Rent,are either playing at or headed to a theater near you -- a movie theater, that is. USA TODAY theater and music critic Elysa Gardner gave the soundtrack for each new big-screenmusical a spin. Here's how they stack up against the originals:

Surprises
Ferrell has refashioned the stirring Third Reich anthem Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop as an earnest, New Agey ballad that sounds like a lost track from Clay Aiken's Christmas CD. It's one of the funniest things that he -- Ferrell, that is -- has ever done. There's also the spanking new There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway, an end-title Lane-Broderick duet that's at once gratuitous and hilarious.

Mary, Did You Know mention.

Dreaming of a Greene Christmas

Macon native and Southern gospel great Buddy Greene is coming home for the holidays.

Or at least for one night, at the behest of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Greene is scheduled to perform Thursday at the Douglass Theatre.

Greene's harmonica stylings are widely known, as is his original Christmas song, "Mary, Did You Know." That little ditty has been recorded by the likes of Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd, Natalie Cole, Clay Aiken and Reba McEntire.

Big week coming up in Charlotte.

We say Week 15 is big. U2?
RON GREEN JR.

It's been a big week here already.
First, it was U2 and then it was those two ... uh, Dolly Parton.
Plus, "The Dukes of Hazzard" is finally out on DVD, so our friends in Pageland can do their Christmas shopping.
The Panthers, meanwhile, spilled some angst into the eggnog last Sunday when they played like Duke against Tampa Bay, throwing the whole postseason into question.
The dark fear is the only postseason game in Bank of America Stadium this season might be the Muffler Bowl featuring South Florida, which no one knew had a football team until its fan booked a room at the Marriott on New Year's Eve.
(Hint: He'll be the guy with the really good tan).
Now the Panthers are forced to Baton Rouge (which, by the way, is French for "Baton Rouge") where they face a must-win game against the New Orleans/San Antonio/Baton Rouge Saints.
They've already lost once this season to the Saints and, according to NFL rules, any team that loses twice in the same year to the Saints is required to bypass the playoffs and stand in the return line at Wal-Mart the day after Christmas.
So, as big as the past week has been, Week 15 is even bigger.
Clay Aiken's coming to town, you know.