Whether you love or hate Christmas music you can’t escape it during the holiday season. On top of that, you’ve heard the songs thousands of times. That’s because most of them have been around for more than 70 years. So what started this 1940s Christmas music boom? Well, we can actually thank at one particular song released at the perfect time.
Further reading:
WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-song-that-changed-christmas-forever-1475617510
The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/12/why-the-christmas-song-canon-has-a-baby-boomer-bias/250344/
NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/christmas-less-religious.html
https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/christmas-songs-where-its-always-1899/
The National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/golden-era-of-christmas-songs/
Futurity
https://www.futurity.org/christmas-songs-nostalgia-1636882/
Five Thirty Eight
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-covered-christmas-songs-ever/
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The way everyone immediately knows which two songs represent the 80s and 90s on the popular songs chart lol
All of these are all really great fun facts THANKS!
“Christmas Stockings”, by the Waitresses, is my favorite Christmas song.
check out How Many Kings by Downhere
Every decade ads a few Christmas classics. The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Waitresses, Dolly Parton, The Pogues, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, the Kinks, Run DMC, Kenny Rogers, there's a LOT of Christmas classics that aren't from the era you're talking about. I think it's just a popular echo chamber when it comes to the subject of Christmas music, but there's a ton of Christmas music that came from later time periods.
prelevant?
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" existed prior to the Jackson 5.
I have heard newer songs that I wish were played more. But honestly "Last Christmas" drives me crazy. I hear it too much and it sticks in my head. And it's barely a "Christmas" song. It's a typical pop song about heartbreak and then rubbing it in that you moved on from the person that broke it.
To clear up any confusion by some of the videos you included, Santa Claus is Coming to Town is from 1934 (performed by Eddie Cantor on his radio show), and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is from 1952 (first recorded by Jimmy Boyd). You should have used Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad from 1970.
Am I the only one who doesn’t really care for Bing Cosby I mean no offense but his voice always makes me fall asleep I bet he would make great lullabies
The huge lack of new Christmas songs has really bothered me, I actually want new ones because I am getting tired of hearing the same ones over and over again. Christmas is also just not as fun as it used to be once I found out that Santa Claus isn’t real and in general I can’t stand all holidays these days anyway.
What’s with Cheddar trying to distinguish “America” from “Christianity?”
Kelly Clarkson, Underneath the Tree! Definitely part of the canon now. If I never hear Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) again it will be too soon.
Prelevant? I think you mean prevalent. You mixed prevalent with relevant, lol. : )
those old classics portray that cozy melancholy feeling and the quality adds to it
Bing Crosby is Mister Christmas
6:49 When I hear Mariah Carey’s Christmas song, I change the radio station. So much crap created today 🤮🤮🤮
When I hear Mariah Carey’s Christmas song, I change the radio station. So much crap created today.
The talent was much better back in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
Crosby sang "White Christmas" for the furst on his radio show Christmas Day, 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. The movie made it explode.
If it ain’t broke…
I think the best era of Christmas music lasts for 20 years from 1938 to 1958.
Written by Jews. Weird.
This video could have been sooooo much better except the intro made me question why I’m watching this video.
“The only difference between the two is time”
What?
Maybe could have left that out or phrased it differently.
What does the chart even mean,12 what
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus is actually also from the 50s
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