Christmas Music and Childhood
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Christmas? If I had my way, I’d start listening to Christmas music at Labor Day. I used to, actually, but after I got married, my husband protested. So now I don’t start listening until more like a week or two before Thanksgiving. I’m told this is more normal. Although who gets to decide what’s normal and what isn’t is a mystery to me.
One of the reasons I like to start listening to Christmas music so early is cause I have so much of it and it takes a long time to get through it all. The last couple of years, however, I’ve pretty much only been listening to my CDs and not my cassettes and LPs. Yes, I have actual Christmas record albums. I’ve had most of them since I was very little. One of them, First Christmas Record for Children, I took to show and tell when I was in Kindergarten. My sister wrote my name on the sleeve in marker so I wouldn’t lose it. I loved that album. Oh, I still have it, I just never get to listen to it cause it’s a pain to dig out our record player and play it. So if I ever do it, I only get a chance to listen to them all once before I have to put it all away. It’s too in the way to leave sitting out for days.
Well the exciting thing is, I found many of those old albums at iTunes and Amazon. Who knew??? It was so exciting. I was just randomly surfing around and just decided to check out some songs I wanted on iTunes. One thing lead to another, and suddenly, I had my old albums, but this time downloaded to CDs and I’ve listening to them. I’m listening right now, as a matter of fact.
OK, some of the songs are a little child-oriented, like Suzy Snowflake, but I love them. They are bringing back so many happy Christmas memories of my childhood, when I listened to the same LPs over and over and over again all day. Now I can do that again. It’s really nice.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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