{"id":39097,"date":"2022-12-08T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=39097"},"modified":"2022-12-12T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T01:05:26","slug":"christmas-2022-countdown-day-4-believewinterdream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2022-countdown-day-4-believewinterdream\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2022 Countdown: Day 4: Believe|Winter|Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas2018a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Christmas 2012, 2013 &amp; 2014<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> brought us, Christmas related, Toyah releases&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1. <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I Believe In Father Christmas<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah\u2019s version of the Greg Lake 70s festive classic (which was voted one of the greatest ever Christmas songs in a 2012 poll) has gathered quite a history over the years: It was originally recorded for ITV\u2019s\u00a0<em>Pop Goes Christmas<\/em>\u00a0in 1982, Safari then included it on the <em>Mayhem<\/em> compilation album in 1985, and later it was also made available on the CD <em>Live &amp; More<\/em>. Ten years ago, at Christmas 2012, it was released as a standalone digital single. Download at <strong><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/i-believe-in-father-christmas\/id586394636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2.<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Winter In Wonderland<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">One year on and at Christmas 2013 there was another new digital single, make that an EP, for Christmas \u2013 <em>Winter in Wonderland<\/em>\u2026 Download at\u00a0<strong>iTunes<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. Has God Ceased To Dream You<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u00a0Toyah released this four-song EP in December 2014 as a companion piece to the recently digitally released <em>Take The Leap!<\/em> album\u2026 Download at <strong>iTunes<\/strong>. (NB. Only <em>I Believe In Father Christmas<\/em> is still available at iTunes!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24759 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasdl15a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasdl15a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasdl15a-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2012, 2013 &amp; 2014 brought us, Christmas related, Toyah releases&#8230; 1. I Believe In Father Christmas;\u00a0Toyah\u2019s version of the Greg Lake 70s festive classic (which was voted one of the greatest ever Christmas songs in a 2012 poll) has gathered quite a history over the years: It was originally recorded for ITV\u2019s\u00a0Pop Goes Christmas\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3031],"tags":[3032,2194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39097"}],"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=39097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39138,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39097\/revisions\/39138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}