[78-L] Christmas Music

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Dec 27 08:06:17 PST 2008


Okay.."Rockola" was sheer brilliance.

That must have been what the 2000 year old man's contemporaries used to play 
their language lessons in "basic Rock".

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> ...and sharpening that mastodon tusk-tip  to play the tablets on the Rockola 
> was no small task.
> and when that tip wore out...oy veh!
> 
> Al "hell no I won't go" Simmons
> 
> 
> 
>> dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>>> Records don't go back that far.
>>> In my experience, most Christmas records before (s) 1035 were sacred, 
>>> with a few novelties for the kiddies.? I think that the success of "Sana 
>>> Claus Is Coming to Town" (c. 1935) made the compamies see value in other 
>>> secular songs of the season.? The deluge begins, AFIC, in the '40s, and 
>>> doen't stp until recent years, with the demise of the 'single'.
>>> One man's opinion.? Corrections welcome!
>>> Don Chichester



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