Listening to Christmas music on the radio reminds me of when I was a kid. My dad was in the Army, and one year (1970) our family was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco. My father recorded a couple of reel-to-reel tapes of Christams tunes from KFOG. These tapes were what we listened to during the Season for many years. The tapes are now long worn out, but I still remember the sound of the fog horn blowing during commercial breaks....C

Cantate Domino, the 80's audiophile LP comes out about now so I can remember how wonderful it was to sing great Christmas music in high school.

Every Thanksgiving, our high school choir would sing Carols for the tree-lighting on Cleveland's Public Square then ride the Shaker Rapid Transit to Shaker Square with Santa and do the same thing there.

Afterwards, 50 0r 60 of us would drive over to the main boulevard through Cleveland Heights and spend a few hours walking past the stately homes singing as we went. Every light would come on and every front door open to hear us as we, about evenly split between Gentiles and Jews, caroled our way through the neighborhood.

What a wonderful memory!

I wonder if the choir still does this today? Or has PC'ness killed it?

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