[78-L] Net privacy and integrity

[David Lennick]

One thing we didn't discuss, in differentiating Carols and Tin Pan Alley songs, 
is folk material like "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and "Wassail Song". 
Borderline carols but no mention of anything holy.

ps..I never heard the Dreidel Song until about five years ago. I think my 
younger siblings may have learned it when they were kids..what's its story?

dl (a red diaper baby who also never heard of CHANUKAH till the age of 10)

Martha wrote:
> I see two subjects:   "Songs Associated With Xmas" and "Songs About Xmas". 
> There's no argument, far as I can see.   The South Park special gets played 
> so much at my house that I now associate  "The Driedel Song" with Xmas ... 
> that doesn't make it "A Christmas Song",  but I still like to hear it every 
> December.   Whatever it took to fill the Christmas LPs (even Mathis) since 
> 1950 has become "Christmas Songs" to most of us.
> 
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>> Thanks, Mike, for your effort to sort things out. Those were sensible 
>> words
>> and I agree with most of them.
>> However, what we're talking about are really two kinds of integrity. 
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