In Britain, there's an album of Christmas pop hits (mostly from the '70s and '80s) that resurfaces every year and is played incessantly in every shop, pub and restaurant from the beginning of November onwards. You know Christmas is round the corner when you hear Noddy Holder of Slade screeching "It's CHRIIIIIS-MAAAAAS!" every half an hour or so.
When I was a teenager, people from the church I used to go to went carol-singing the two weeks leading up to Christmas - not to raise money, but as a form of low-key outreach. That used to get me in the Christmassy mood more than anything else. So for me, the familiar carols are still my favourites: "Hark The Herald Angels Sing", "While Shepherds Watched" etc. Though when I'm in a mischievous mood, I like to sing the words of carols to inappropriate tunes, such as "Silent Night" to the tune of "Postman Pat" or "Once In Royal David's City" to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall".
But somehow, the record I have to hear at Christmas is the Moody Blues' "Nights In White Satin". It always reminds me of a cartoon version of "Scrooge" that used to be on TV every year during the '70s. I don't know whether I heard the song on the radio while "Scrooge" was on on the television, or whether I thought at the age of six that the "white satin" referred to Scrooge's nightshirt, but there it is...
If you're looking for a new song, I could blow my own trumpet (well, guitar) and mention my song, "Son Of Man, Son Of God"...
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