One fun thing about the holidays is that there is music that you don't listen to any other time of the year. With music there is always going to be songs that you like and songs that you don't. Christmas is no exception. Everyone has their absolute favorite song. We were talking about it last night at dinner. My mother in law's favorite song is O Holy Night, my father in law loves a slower version of All I Want For Christmas is You. I've tried to think of one absolute favorite song. I think I have come up with it, but who knows, it might change next year or the year after that.
With the exception of the first year we lived down in Wichita, we have not been home for Christmas since our college days. So it works out that one favorite song recently has been I'll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams), the Bing Crosby version, because is there any other? It just fits our situation perfectly because it's what we deal with every year. We can't go home because of my job which has always been a downer, but we have had family come visit and it's been nice to have that little bit of home every year.
Along with number one favorite songs, everyone has their list of songs that they love and can fight for the top spot in each person's heart. If not favorite songs, favorite albums. I've been a fan of Crosby's 'White Christmas' because that's what I grew up with, but then again, didn't most everyone? Along with that, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' album has always been fun because the television special has always been fun.
And to think, Charles Schultz wasn't a fan of jazz music.
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