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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Songs From Christmas Past

It is a cliche to say that it does not seem like Christmas anymore. There is not much of a season of new Christmas music offerings from the well known performers, and most new Christmas music releases are deligated to the Christian music segment of the commercial recording business. Thanks to misunderstood and misdirected ( in my opinion ) leftist societal decisions about separation of church and state, we have become mostly a secular and atheistic society, forgetting our Judeo-Christian origins. Kruschev would be proud. Holiday music just does not sell to the general public, since what is left of Christmas observance is mostly commercial, and most ads prefer to say "Holiday Season" or some such phrase. I am not a Christian, but I really miss the general feeling of peace and goodwill that open public Christmas celebrations once conveyed.

There was a time when rock groups issued new holiday music every year. And some of them were hits. Here are a few that I remember, some well known, some not so well known ...

Darlene Love - "Christmas ( Baby Please Come Home )"


The Pretenders - "2000 miles"


Kinks - "Father Christmas"


Beach Boys - "Little Saint Nick"


Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"