*Following is reprint from my 2013 Opinions:
Brenda, Bobby, Burl..enough already!!
Now, I love a good Christmas carol or song as much as anybody. But after 60 years,
I'm getting a little tired of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"and "a rump-a-pum-pum"
with "The Little Drummer Boy". If that's not long enough, we now have stations starting
their All Christmas music formats November 1st! Joy to the World and Feliz to your Navy
Dad. Yep, there's less than 65 days of a "Holly Jolly Christmas" and The Chipmunks.
I know, this usually gets some decent rating points for these "brave" but tedious stations.
I know, I'll be able to hear this again in Target and Sears while shopping. Just can't get
enough of those badly segued Christmas Classics...like The Singing Dogs barking their way
through "Jingle Bells"and deftly merging into "Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte or
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir! I cringe.
Oh! I know, there's always a 5, 6,or 7 year old coming along who's never heard these "ripe"
holiday "chestnuts" before. I worry that they're now sentenced to hear them the rest of their
lives! Before you scold me and call me a programming "Scrooge", I love the Holidays. Perhaps
we should just throw common sense and programming philosophy out in the snow with
"Frosty" and enjoy it all. But I fear some group or dogmatic person will come along and
picket these stations for having too many songs with Christmas in the lyrics! It's only a matter
of time. If the lawsuits then prevail, that'll cut the Holiday song list down by over 80%!
We'll have to get Brenda Lee to re-record "Rockin' Around The HOLIDAY Tree" I guess.
I can't even imagine Bing Crosby ever singing "White Holiday" can you? And Mel Torme
would never have written "The Holiday Song" today. Somehow hearing Sinatra sing: "I'll
Be Home For The Winter Solstice" won't cut it either. While I wait for political correctness
to offer some new songs...Little Drummer Boy...you're safe. For now!.." a rump-a-pum-pum...
That's my RadiOpinion...what's yours?
By the way, Stan Freberg's "Green Christmas" is still funny after 55 years. A CLASSIC!
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