One
of my favorite things about this time of year is the music that permeates
everything. I don’t really like to hear
Christmas carols before Thanksgiving, but after the dinner has been put away,
it’s all fair game.
When
I was a child my parents had very little in terms of entertainment around the
house, like books, movies and music.
There was a small bookshelf that contained mostly animal and handyman
encyclopedias and a smattering of other books.
Musically they still had 8-tracks, maybe a dozen or so and that was
limited to a couple of Elvis Presley’s, a Willie Nelson, a Vern Gosdin and a
few other artists; more than likely those 8-tracks were Country and Western
artists and I write Country and Western because at that time Country music went
by its full name. In addition to that
vast collection of music there was a green and white striped box kept in a
closet that contained a mix of long-playing record albums. These records were not Country, because Daddy
didn’t own any of them, and only a few not geared towards kids. If my memory serves me correct, there were
only three that weren’t children’s records: Madonna’s self-titled debut album, Michael
Jackson’s Thriller and Do it Debbie’s Way, a Debbie Reynolds’s
exercise album.
As
for the kid’s albums there were a couple of story book LPs but my favorite were
the two Christmas records. One was this
one from Arthur Godfrey titled All I Want
for Christmas.
Then
there was the other album, although I don’t remember the name of it, but it was
filled with a large number of children’s Christmas songs and carols including “Donde
Esta Santa Claus”. Thinking back now, I
realize how annoying it must have been to have to listen to these records over
and over again, but that’s all in the spirit of the season.
What’s
on your playlist?
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