AZ* wrote:
I agree with drh. Does anybody actually like
Jingle Bell Rock or that horrible Paul McCartney Christmas song that you are almost always forced to endure whenever you venture into a store in December? Due to the Covid19 pandemic, my trips to stores have been practically nonexistent this year so I have generally been able to avoid those noxious sounds that parade as Christmas "music."

I worked in retail for years- was a district mgr. for KMart Enterprises. Try LIVING that stuff for six weeks, over and over and over...
But, I have to admit, John Lennon's "Happy Christmas/ War Is Over" is a modern Christmas song that has a lot of meaning for me. I am of the age that this bogeyman called VietNam haunted my childhood and adolescence. While "Happy Christmas" was released in 1971, it got a ton of airplay during the Christmas season of 1975, when the war finally, really WAS over. People forget that Nixon's peace accord contained a clause that we could jump back in to defend South Vietnam if the North got too aggressive, and the draft was still active. The NVA overwhelmed the South too fast for this to happen, and President Ford decided not to intervene.
I was at the age where the guys a year ahead got the last draft lottery cards. Whew!
McCartney made a lot of good music, but that limp Christmas song wasn't among his best. I was always WAY more of a Lennon fan, anyways, and preferred George Harrison's solo work to McCartney's as well.
Hard to believe John has been gone 40 years now.
Ah, well, back to Edisons!