Christmas In The Heart arrived in our house last night. The question is, when to play it. I don’t feel very festive yet; nor, in theory, do I feel like revisiting the late 1940s-1950s. I grew up in them, and didn’t much like it. Ronnie Hilton, Lita Roza, Mel Tormé, the Mitch Miller Orchestra, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé, Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney, Ann Shelton, Percy Faith, the Ray Charles [not that one] Singers… no thanks. A serious no thanks. I thought we’d said goodbye to all that.
Rock’n'roll rescued me from all of it, and after rock’n'roll descended into pop, Bob Dylan rescued me from that. I don’t feel like time-travelling so regressively.
And yet – so many people who expected not to like Christmas In The Heart (and didn’t like Modern Times or most of this decade’s concerts) have turned out to like it, so I’m facing the prospect of hearing it with a skittery and nervous open-mindedness.
I’d like to ask, though: is there anyone out there who has had an opposite experience with Christmas In The Heart? Having expected to like it, found that they haven’t? I ask disinterestedly, not uninterestedly.
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"CHRISTMAS" HAS ARRIVED
