Ár mian leat. – Our wish to you.
May the year 2026 meet you with good health, steady joy and people who make your ordinary day feel lighter. May you have courage for the hard bits, gratitude for the good bits and plenty of reasons to find laugher along the way.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
Lyrics: Russian-born American composer and songwriter, the late Irving Berlin, (1888–1989).
Vocals: American singer and actor, the late Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. (1903–1977).
Watch Fred Astaire’s dance routine featured in the video hereunder, which demonstrates his dancing brilliance.
Playing an inebriated guest; he acts loose and soft at the knees, showing slightly delayed reactions and swaying off-balance, yet his timing stays locked perfectly to the music.
Classic Astaire clarity in this staging, so you can read the full-body movement and the rhythm in his feet; one of the reasons Astaire dance numbers feel so musically satisfying.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
Let’s Start the New Year Right.
One minute to midnight,
One minute to go,
One minute to say goodbye,
Before we say hello.
… Let’s start the new year right,
Twelve o’clock tonight,
When they dim the light,
Let’s begin.
Kissing the old year out,
Kissing the new year in.
Let’s watch the old year die,
With a fond goodbye,
And our hopes as high,
As a kite.
How can our love go wrong if,
We start the new year right?
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