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Hallmark Channel Christmas In July inspired Rob Thomas
Currently, Hallmark’s popular Countdown to Christmas is in full swing, much to the delight of fans of holiday movies. However, before this started, the channel’s Christmas in July led to musical inspiration.
Us Weekly interviewed singer Rob Thomas, 49, last week while he was promoting his new Something About Christmas Time album. He said how the timing was excellent because Hallmark was airing its Christmas in July marathon. Thomas added that he would leave that on the whole time he was working on his songs for the new album. He admitted that he did, occasionally, bring out his Christmas DVDs, of which he apparently has many, for part of June and a little of August
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A Royal Queens Christmas To Feature His Music
It turns out that not only did Rob gain inspiration from the festive Hallmark movies, a reimagined version of his song A New York Christmas will be included in Hallmark’s upcoming A Royal Queens Christmas. That movie is set to premiere during the Countdown to Christmas lineup.
Speaking of A New York Christmas, the singer couldn’t help but be excited over the announcement. “Because I’m a Christmas geek, I’m a Hallmark movie geek and my wife is from Queens and she is a Hallmark movie geek… And then because of that, I’m going to be in the Thanksgiving Day Parade on the Hallmark float.”
Readers can enjoy the reimagined version of A New York Christmas in the YouTube video included here:
What Is Rob Thomas’ Favorite Holiday Movie On Hallmark?
When asked which movie was his favorite, Thomas said it is a movie called Most Wonderful Time of the Year, featuring Henry Winkler. He did admit it wasn’t originally a Hallmark movie, but then the channel bought it, so it still counts.
Speaking of his new Christmas album, Rob said how excited he was about it and had been planning it for some time. He said, “You know, every year it’s Christmas time, I’m sitting at the piano at some point, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I want to do a Christmas album.’ And it’s always too late because if you do a Christmas album, a lot of people don’t realize you have to do it in the summer that way it’s ready by Christmas time and nobody’s feeling Christmas-y [then].”
The singer explained that the first thing he had to do was shut everything in his studio, covering everything with Christmas lights, air Christmas movies at all times and just keep the “Christmas vibe kind of, like, going and flowing.”
Fans of Thomas’ music will be thrilled to know his Something About Christmas Time album is available now. On top of that, he will be performing tracks from the new album in an exclusive livestream concert on StageIt on Monday, November 8, at 8 pm ET. The concert is presented by VNUE and all proceeds benefit Sidewalk Angels Foundation, an organization that benefits no-kill animal shelters.
Readers can catch the full interview on Us Weekly’s website here.
Make sure you catch the livestream concert on StageIt on Monday, November 8, at 8 pm ET. Also, watch A Royal Queens Christmas on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, December 11 at 8 pm ET.