{"id":11657,"date":"2012-07-09T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2012-07-09T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T10:36:07","slug":"finally-some-christmas-music-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/finally-some-christmas-music-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Some Christmas Music On Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Independence Day, I spun some records in the spirit of the holiday. Of course, my grandfather’s marches<\/a> got a spin. So did An Open Letter to My Teenage Son<\/em><\/a>. Which was the extent of pure patriotic music I had in hand, although I could have uncorked the whole Reader’s Digest set of Kate Smith to get to “God Bless America”.<\/p>\n

Instead, I went to Tchiakovsky’s 1812 Overture<\/em>. Yes, I know the record was not about the American troubles in 1812 and was more about the Russian troubles in 1812 (DWL!<\/a>), but it has freakin’ cannons in it, okay? Well, I thought I was going to spin “1812 Overture”, but I discovered it was “1812 Overture” with “The Nutcracker Suite” with “The Nutcracker Suite” on Side 1<\/em>. Which would make it more “The Nutcracker Suite” with “1812 Overture” if you ask me. So I spent a bit of Independence Day celebrating Christmas in July.<\/p>\n

Then I cracked out the boxed set The American Spirit<\/em><\/a>, which I would have expected to be about America and its spirit. Well. I didn’t look too closely as I was doing other things with patriotic and other music in the background. So I put this new set on and….<\/p>\n

It’s a collection of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops and a bunch of songs that are American. Including “Sleigh Ride”, which was a hit for Fiedler in 1949 or 1950 and a hit pretty much for anyone who can simulate a whip crack ever since.<\/p>\n

So I listened to two Christmas songs on Independence Day.<\/p>\n

Fast forward (or move the needle to) Saturday, when I’m in a thrift store on the wrong side of Branson, and I run across a real<\/em> Christmas album, and I buy it.<\/p>\n

\"Sons<\/a><\/p>\n

Let me ‘splain:<\/p>\n

When I was a child in the 1970s, it was a tradition for my father to play two records on Christmas morning: This one and Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs<\/a><\/em> by Marty Robbins. I don’t know why he did it. It might have seemed amusing to him. Maybe he got the LPs on Christmas. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

All I know is that this tradition had run for several years, which is all it takes for something to become “a tradition” in the eyes of the child.<\/p>\n

And now I can share that tradition with my children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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