Mac: I was almost correct: "Merry Christmas Darling" came not four, but almost five hours later. Along with a half dozen others I'd heard just hours earlier. I also don't see the logic in playing Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song", followed less than a half hour later by Al Jarreau's version. Maybe next year it will be "All 'Christmas Song', All The Time."
What bothers me personally is me being such a "Bah Humbug" toward something as innocent as Christmas music. But it just rubs me the wrong way, I guess, when I start thinking that these songs "tested well" against a group of listeners...and pretty soon we'll even be sick of Nat King Cole's "Christmas Song" since it's beyond being repeated...it's being HAMMERED. Just seems so...commercial. (I feel like Charlie Brown. )
What bothers me personally is me being such a "Bah Humbug" toward something as innocent as Christmas music. But it just rubs me the wrong way, I guess, when I start thinking that these songs "tested well" against a group of listeners...and pretty soon we'll even be sick of Nat King Cole's "Christmas Song" since it's beyond being repeated...it's being HAMMERED. Just seems so...commercial. (I feel like Charlie Brown. )