With the coming of Thanksgiving, comes the advent of holiday music. Some people hate holiday music. I can't say that I hate it although it does get old by the time Christmas finally arrives. In fact, the music used to be my favorite part of the season.
I have noticed the past 10 years that the local radio station that plays holiday music between Thanksgiving and Christmas seems to have a limited repartee of songs, playing the same songs everyday, every hour. When compared to newer holidays like Labor Day or Kwanzaa, Christmas (and for that matter Hanukkah) has been around a long time. So there is a ton of Christmas (and Hanukkah) music out there. Public vendors like the local radio station are not interested in Christmas music anymore, they are interested in shopping music. True Christmas classics like "The Holly and the Ivy" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", have been relegated to church choirs and madrigal groups leaving the radio waves to dump out songs like "Santa Baby" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
The only song I hate more than "Santa Baby" is the "Little Drummer Boy". I think the story is sweet but all the pa-rumpa-pum-pumming makes a mediocre song last for a horrid eternity. While I can totally relate to the drummer boy's plight of having no gifts to bring because he was too damn poor to buy food, much less gold or frankincense, he could pa-rumpa-pum-pum a lot less and still get his point across.
Peace! lw
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