[78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune? Really?

[Bud Black]

"Christmas Dreaming" is heard every Christmas, and yet it was written to be a song sung far from the season.

Bud

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On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:56 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Slight amendment (and insertion of a missing word)..18573 charted on December 
> 4, 1943, so Decca probably brought it out with whatever was available for a 
> filler since they weren't going to get another Christmas ditty out of Bing that 
> year and White Christmas was doing just fine. Interestingly enough, Jingle 
> Bells/Santa Claus is Comin' to Town did NOTHING in 1943. Now you hear it 
> everywhere.
> 
> Speaking of inappropriate seasonal tunes, somebody is programming blindly..I 
> heard "I've Plenty To Be Thankful For" on a store system the other day. Right 
> movie, wrong season. I'm also hearing Chanukah songs, which is really weird in 
> a sh*tkicker town like Oshawa.
> 
> On 12/22/2012 10:40 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 
>> 18570 was a single, not added to an album till 1945. "Danny Boy" was in the can
>> from 1941. "I'll be Home for Christmas" was recorded in October 1943, very soon
>> after the end of the ban (for Decca), along with Jingle Bells and Santa Claus
>> is Comin' to Town. They did indeed need a filler, so Danny Boy was it. How it
>> got into the Christmas album is anybody's guess, but it wasn't even listed
>> in the 1948 Decca catalog and didn't resurface till it was reissued in 25415,
>> backed with Dear Little Boy of Mine.
>> 
>> dl
>> 
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