# Christmas music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196 "2015-12-02T06:48:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196/21 "2015-12-03T04:59:16Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> And some of these can get pretty weird, like “I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In”. What’s the Baby Jesus doing on a ship?

“Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem”? It’s a land-locked town, currently about 10 miles from the nearest body of water, the Dead Sea.

> [@Labdad](#):
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> That would be “White Christmas” and “Easter Bonnet,” by the way.

“Easter Parade”.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196/22 "2015-12-03T05:28:47Z")

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[Old thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=590038). Religious music won out and this forum isn’t particularly religious. IMHO that’s deserved; most of it is timeless while the other categories have a higher “tacky” ratio, and avoids the awfulness of some modern Protestant church music.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196/23 "2015-12-03T10:15:00Z")

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I just call everything playing on KOST 103.5 FM these days a Christmas carol, and let it go at that. It makes things easier for me, which is the whole point.

😃

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196/24 "2015-12-03T14:15:37Z")

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> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> “Easter Parade”.

:smack:

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/739196/25 "2015-12-03T16:12:03Z")

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I guess a fourth category would be music for other holidays, like Haunakah or New Year’s Day, that occur at about the same time and so get lumped in with the Christmas/Holiday/Seasonal music.  
By the way, in case anyone’s interested, Audible’s offering a free lecture by Robert Greenberg on [A Brief History of Holiday Music](http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Entertainment/Free-A-Brief-History-of-Holiday-Music-Audiobook/B018INQNQA/ref=a_search_c4_1_3_srTtl?qid=1449155694&sr=1-3).

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