I have always loved Christmas music. I know some people think it gets played too early, but when you were a kid anything that reminded you that Santa was coming soon was okay by you. One of my favorites was ” Christmas song”, not “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole, though that is pretty good. I’m talking about the Alvin and the Chipmunks song embedded below.
My earliest memory of this song was from a 45 rpm record that my siblings and I received from our Aunt, my Mother’s sister. She had given us her old record player and a stack of 45’s to go with it. Most, as I recall, were Christmas tunes, though there were some others. The only non Christmas record I can remember was “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starlighters.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have an old jukebox filled with 45’s. Each year I would swap out some of the records for Christmas tunes that I had purchased at a local record store. I did not realize until recently that most were songs that I remembered hearing for the first time on that record player from my Aunt. I was only about five when she gave it to us and I was in my late thirties when I got the jukebox, so thirty some odd years later, I was trying to capture that feeling I had sitting in our basement watching those records revolve and counting down the days until Santa arrived.
So, next time you give out that huge sigh and declare “enough with the Christmas music”, just stop and remember that Santa knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!
Alvin and the Chipmunks- Christmas song[original] – YouTube.