{"id":17820,"date":"2013-12-10T23:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2013-12-14T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:27:25","slug":"christmas-countdown-toyah-christmas-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-toyah-christmas-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown: Re-Joyce, Believe, Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17821 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas12e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmas12e.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yipee! It&#8217;s our first Christmas Countdown post &#8211; A great way to start, download some festive Toyah music to get you through the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1. Re-Joyce (In The Bleak Midwinter)<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">by The Hazel O&#8217;Connor Collective, which included Toyah, was released three years ago at Christmas 2010. A charity single, raising funds for the hospice Hazel&#8217;s mum was looked after before her death. A great cause and a really good song.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Download at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/re-joyce-feat-toyah-willcox\/id407782440?i=407782502\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2. I Believe In Father Christmas<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, Toyah&#8217;s version of the Greg Lake 70s festive classic (which was voted one of the greatest ever Christmas songs last year) has gathered quite a history over the years: It was originally recorded for ITV&#8217;s <em>Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> in 1982, Safari then included it on the &#8216;Mayhem&#8217; compilation album in 1985, and later it was also made available on the CD &#8216;Live &amp; More&#8217;. Last year it was released as a standalone digital single.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Download at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/i-believe-in-father-christmas\/id586394636\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>3. Winter In Wonderland<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, One year on and there&#8217;s a new digital single, no make that an EP, for Christmas &#8211; Winter in Wonderland&#8230;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Download at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/winter-in-wonderland-ep\/id775805708\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmasdl13a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17822\" alt=\"christmasdl13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmasdl13a.jpg\" width=\"618\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmasdl13a.jpg 618w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmasdl13a-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yipee! It&#8217;s our first Christmas Countdown post &#8211; A great way to start, download some festive Toyah music to get you through the month. 1. Re-Joyce (In The Bleak Midwinter) by The Hazel O&#8217;Connor Collective, which included Toyah, was released three years ago at Christmas 2010. A charity single, raising funds for the hospice Hazel&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[981,863],"tags":[987,473,986,983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17913,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/17913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}