BOOM! It’s Christmas!
November 19, 2021In days of yore when Christmas was a 12-day celebration beginning at sundown on December 24, radio stations started to sprinkle in holiday tunes beginning the day after Thanksgiving.
For the last several years, the Friday before Thanksgiving has been considered the “new” Friday after Thanksgiving as the day Christmas music starts in Pittsburgh. iHeart’s WWSW (94.5) and Renda’s WSHH (99.7) are all-Christmas until at least December 26… perhaps through the end of the year.
Enjoy it while you can… it doesn’t seem like it’s nearly enough time!
For those of you who are starting your annual game to see if you can make it through the season without hearing “Last Christmas” by Wham, good luck. I don’t think you have a chance!
Shucks, “Last Christmas” already got me this season!
Mainly on stations I never listen to, anyhow… except, maybe, in the last few days before Christmas for an hour or two here or there. Balance in nature, LOL!
And they wonder why people are turning their radios off in favor of streams they can customize… .. .
True in a way, we used to look at DJs to be the taste makers. Good or bad, it was better than stations are doing now, just playing oldies and not breaking new songs. FM stations once broke new songs outside of their own format, WAMO playing Kraftwerk or DVE the B-52s Rock Lobster during morning drive, just a few examples.
Now Christmas is naturally about traditions, but stations could ease up on the warhorse songs a bit. My favorites right now are Singing Dogs Jingle Bells, Royal Guardsmen Snoopy, Boney M Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord and Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You, I can always hear those. Thing is Mariah has two other Christmas albums and a similar sounding followup track, but those rarely get played.
I don’t go out of my way to hear Christmas music on the radio, just hear it in stores, so mostly I don’t get tired of the songs too much.
Boomer