{"id":579,"date":"2012-04-09T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-04-09T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:16:20","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-62-did-i-mention-moms-christmas-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/04\/09\/my-musical-evolution-part-62-did-i-mention-moms-christmas-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 62 Did I Mention Mom&#8217;s Christmas Albums?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Disney albums that we discussed at the beginning of the year, mom had a bunch of classic Christmas albums that she got by filling up her gas tank at Gulf stations or Texaco or something. She had Bing Crosby&#8217;s Merry Christmas and maybe 7 or 8 other Christmas compilations featuring the greats like Perry Como, Burl Ives, Andy Williams and those types of guys. As I look back on it, I seem to recall that the day after Halloween, we&#8217;d break out the stack of Christmas albums and start up the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p>All through November and December we&#8217;d be listening to Christmas music, put up our fake Christmas tree and deck the halls. It seemed like the <em>Christmas Season<\/em> lasted so much longer then. We&#8217;d watch the Christmas specials like <em>Santa Claus Is Comin&#8217; To Town, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer <\/em>and <em>The Little Drummer Boy.<\/em>\u00a0 Every year as December rockets by I wonder why Christmas never seems to last like it used to. I never seems to find an acceptable answer. We have jobs now and other responsibilities. We have 200 channels of stuff on TV and a whole wrold wide web of distractions. I guess the answer is acceptable, just not satisfactory. Back in the 70&#8217;s we didn&#8217;t have much else to do but listen to mom&#8217;s Christmas albums and wait.<\/p>\n<p>Perry Como &#8211; <em>O Holy Night<\/em>\u00a0 This is and has always been my favorite Christmas song. It is wonderfully nostalgic and speaks to the heart of the season.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ewP3Apag5Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBing Crosby &#8211; <em>White Christmas<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJSUT8Inl14?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Andy Williams &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s The Most wonderful Time of the Year<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFtb3EtjEic?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Burl Ives &#8211; <em>Holly Jolly Christmas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJxi0zCdGEY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk about Christmas songs again when we get to the <a title=\"My Musical Evolution \u2013 Part 340 The 90\u2032s Time-Life Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/my-musical-evolution-part-340-the-90s-time-life-christmas\/\">early 1990&#8217;s <\/a>\u00a0but for now, these are the roots of the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the Disney albums that we discussed at the beginning of the year, mom had a bunch of classic Christmas albums that she got by filling up her gas tank at Gulf stations or Texaco or something. She had Bing Crosby&#8217;s Merry Christmas and maybe 7 or 8 other Christmas compilations featuring the greats like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/04\/09\/my-musical-evolution-part-62-did-i-mention-moms-christmas-albums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 62 Did I Mention Mom&#8217;s Christmas Albums?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,83,114,133,480],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-andy-williams","tag-bing-crosby","tag-burl-ives","tag-christmas","tag-perry-como","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}