[78-L] Christmas songs (returning to original subject line)

[David Lennick]

[Please remember to change the subject line! I responded to the previous 
message, not realizing that I'd replied to a topic I've been automatically 
deleting for the last 3 days, as have most people who are bored to death with 
the thing.]

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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