[78-L] Christmas Music

[David Lennick]

That's odd..the Warner-Spector issue wasn't hard to find in Canada as a single 
LP in (I think) the late 70s or early 80s.

And I forgot to list Little Saint Nick. Suffice to say that rock stations 
continued to play "the hits" with the odd Christmas record mixed in even 
through Christmas Day for many years.

dl

Tom wrote:
> I had tried to buy the Phil Spector Christmas album back in either 1984 or 1985, not too many years before the advent of the CD, and was told by the sales clerk at the record store (this was at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. which was at the time probably THE premier record store in Los Angeles) that it was only available as part of a package including all of Phil Spector's other LP recordings.
>  
> As recently as then, it wasn't sold separately.
>  
> No wonder it didn't catch on till later, especially among those of us who weren't exactly Ronettes-deprived to begin with.
>  
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 12/28/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Christmas Music
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 1:11 PM
> 
> Michael Biel wrote:
> 
> 
>> The tradition of the Christmas radio programs began before more than a 
>> very few people could record them, and the tradition of Christmas tv 
>> shows began before the VCR and DVD.  If anything, having Christmas 
>> records had very little effect beyond being able to hear them throughout 
>> the rest of the year when nobody was performing or broadcasting 
>> Christmas music.  But how many people play them the rest of the year??
>>
> There was even a time when radio stations didn't play Christmas music until
> 
> (gasp) mid December! By the mid sixties, it would be ONE PER HOUR in the first 
> week of December, gradually stepped up over the next couple of weeks..on MOR 
> stations like CFRB. Rockers had far less to choose from other than the 
> Chipmunks, Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms and the Phil Spector album (which, as I 
> recall, didn't take off until reissued in the 70s).
> 
> dl
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