No, but keep them old- no pun intended!
I remember in the 1970s, there were stories in the media about 150+ year old men in rural Russia. Counter claims were that these guys had escaped into the hills to avoid being drafted into Napoleon’s army, and lied about their age.
There were yogurt commercials on TV exploiting it.
Rural Georgia (Soviet Georgia, to be exact), as I remember the Dannon commercials.
.. and it was Georgia because that’s where Stalin came from, so of course it Had To Be Special.
All these places are poor and poorly documented, so it’s mostly done for pension fraud and aggrandisement.
And the SCTV version:
This time of year the “fact” keeps getting passed around the interned that Jingle Bells was originally meant to be a Thanksgiving song. Not true, according to a story on NPR this morning. Apparently it wasn’t intended to be a holiday song at all. It was part of a “sleigh song” trend from the 1850s (sort of like how car songs were big in the 1960s). The one horse open sleigh was like the 1850s version of the little deuce coupe.
And yet it established the custom that every fucking popular Christmas song must include jingles to announce that it’s a Christmas song.
It certainly is a seasonal song however, along with several other songs played during the Season. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, “Winter Wonderland,”.
Specifically, it was a minstrel song, performed in blackface, which satirized black participation in northern (read white) activities.
James Pierpont, who wrote the song, was born and raised in Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out, his 60-plus-year-old father joined the Union Army as a chaplain. By then James had moved to the Southeast, where he became a rebel through and through–wrote and published a number of now-completely-obscure pro-Confederate songs during the war. I expect he’d be very surprised to know that the one song he wrote that has lasted (though today’s chorus has a different melody) was “One-Horse Open Sleigh.”