# Why is "My Favorite Things" considered X-mas music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369 "2011-12-16T02:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/21 "2011-12-17T00:37:20Z")
I never understood why wintery songs get halted the day after Christmas when the winter still has a couple of months to go. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/22 "2011-12-17T00:56:37Z")
When I hear it my first thought is “THIS is a Christmas song”? Then my second thought is “Welp, at least it’s not the damned Christmas Shoes” ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/23 "2011-12-17T17:51:22Z")
It ties in with presents under the tree. ---
**Author:** ![kurtisokc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kurtisokc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurtisokc)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/24 "2011-12-17T21:20:13Z")
I think it is because in the US the “Sound of Music” used to (still is?) be broadcast every year around Christmas time by one of the major networks, just because it is such family friendly fare. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/25 "2011-12-18T01:53:35Z")
Isn’t it Easter when the Sound of Music has been traditionally broadcast? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/26 "2011-12-18T03:47:38Z")
That’s what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/27 "2011-12-18T04:41:21Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Didn’t Scooby pull Santa’s sleigh one year, when the Reindeer were all scared away by a ghost? Except it wasn’t a ghost and old man Jenkins would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those pesky kids. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/28 "2011-12-18T05:07:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I learned a couple of years ago that the first use of this song on a Christmas album was by Jack Jones in 1964. He sang the song, somebody shook some jingle bells in the background, and _presto!_ A Christmas song! > > 'Course, I’ve decided that this means John Coltrane’s album _My Favorite Things_ is perforce a Christmas album; therefore three more Christmas carols are: Every Time We Say Goodbye, But Not For Me, and Summertime. > > Which means _Porgy and Bess_ is a Christmas pageant, and “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” is _also_ a Christmas carol. > > Don’t like it, music industry? Fuck it. Stop putting “My Favorite Things” on your Christmas albums… “Bess, You is My Woman Now” is now my favorite Christmas carol. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/29 "2011-12-18T05:11:27Z")
I would just like to take a moment to say how much I really truly hate that song. I hate the movie, too. But at Christmas time, I can’t even escape this truly dreadful song. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/30 "2011-12-18T05:19:17Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Isn’t it Easter when the Sound of Music has been traditionally broadcast? Yes, that and _The Ten Commandments_. ---
**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 18, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/31 "2011-12-18T05:42:49Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I would just like to take a moment to say how much I really truly hate that song. I hate the movie, too. But at Christmas time, I can’t even escape this truly dreadful song. So, it’s not one of your favorite things, then? ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/32 "2011-12-18T08:26:25Z")
In England ‘The Sound of Music’ is a Christmas Tradition. It’s always on telly this time of year, and so is ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Well, they always were, I’ve been out of the country for several years now, but they were considered Christmas films. I expect ‘My Favorite Things’ is the song in the film that sounds most Christmassy, what else would you want under the tree but all your favorite things? ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/33 "2011-12-18T09:00:56Z")
I didn’t know that it was, but I’ve been playing Coltrane’s version for the kids. They love it! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369/34 "2011-12-18T18:33:21Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Isn’t it Easter when the Sound of Music has been traditionally broadcast? > [@JohnT](#): > > Yes, that and _The Ten Commandments_. On that movie, I usually take a pass, overwhelmed as I am by spring cleaning and such. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-favorite-things-considered-x-mas-music/606369.md?page=1)