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Post by trackrat on Nov 27, 2010 8:40:38 GMT -5
Some Cleveland radio stations are already playing Christmas music non-stop until after Christmas day.
As a child of the fifties, my Christmas memories are filled with remembrances of my Grandmother's house, listening to classic Christmas music. For me, there is no other rendition of White Christmas than the one by Bing Crosby. No other version of The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting by the open fire) than Nat King Cole.
No apology to you youngsters out there, but Mariah Carey wailing away on any classic Christmas song is like listening to chalk on a chalkboard. Yeow!!
Just my humble opinion. Bah, humbug!!
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Post by jimhorseman on Nov 27, 2010 20:03:51 GMT -5
Trackrat:
Here in Buffalo the two big competing FM stations began an all Christmas music format on Nov 15th. The AAAARRRGGGHHHH you heard that day was from me flipping the FM dial that morning on my way to work. I am a child of the late sixties/early seventies and my memory is of The Carpenters and Johnny Matthis playing as background music on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ONLY. Sometimes they truly were the good old days.
Speaking of Bah Humbug; my favorite personal Christmas memory involves my two young girls who were ages 2 and 4. My wife had Christmas stockings made with our names on them. In each stocking was some candy and small trinkets - except for mine. My wife had found a small bag of charcoal which she placed in the stocking with my name on it. When I pulled the charcoal out my girls eyes opened wide. Suddenly my four year old daughter Nicole motioned for her two year old sister Jessica to come by her. They whispered for a few minutes and then Nicole announced out loud as her sister stood there nodding in agreement "Well Dad, you have been yelling a lot, especially when you were putting up the Christmas lights." Their innocence when conferencing about and justifing why Dad deserved coal in his stocking made me laugh out loud and will forever remain my favorite image of Christmas.
Sadly, my daughters are now 16 and 18 and the youngest one said the other day "Dad I want to Christmas shop at the mall. Can you give me either your credit card or a couple of hundred to use?" My response will probably earn me coal in the stocking again this year.
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Post by thegiss on Nov 29, 2010 16:30:39 GMT -5
Some Cleveland radio stations are already playing Christmas music non-stop until after Christmas day. As a child of the fifties, my Christmas memories are filled with remembrances of my Grandmother's house, listening to classic Christmas music. For me, there is no other rendition of White Christmas than the one by Bing Crosby. No other version of The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting by the open fire) than Nat King Cole. No apology to you youngsters out there, but Mariah Carey wailing away on any classic Christmas song is like listening to chalk on a chalkboard. Yeow!! Just my humble opinion. Bah, humbug!! As a child of the 60s-70s, not much argument BUT The original of the Christmas Song- Mel Torme- is the only one. Some of the new stuff is good. Like Trans-Siberian Orchestra for the most part. A few years back my son made a cd of 8 different versions of the Kinks Father Christmas- Give us Your Money. Also love the Waitresses' Christmas (W)rapping. The Save Ferris version, not so much. |
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Post by trackrat on Nov 29, 2010 18:05:32 GMT -5
Giss, I saw that the TSO took Pachebel's Canon in D and made a Christmas carol out of it. Reminded me of the time I went to Best Buy and they had an obscure "Best of Pachebel" album that had the Canon in D by 8-9 different artists and different genres. Somehow I just could not spring for the $9.99 to buy it.
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Post by thegiss on Nov 30, 2010 10:31:36 GMT -5
Giss, I saw that the TSO took Pachebel's Canon in D and made a Christmas carol out of it. Reminded me of the time I went to Best Buy and they had an obscure "Best of Pachebel" album that had the Canon in D by 8-9 different artists and different genres. Somehow I just could not spring for the $9.99 to buy it. My mom has over twenty recorded versions of it. But you should appreciate this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM |
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