by jon » Tue Dec 18, 2018 5:19 pm
bigbry brings up an interesting point about how Christmas playlists changed, especially this century. Bill Reiter's Christmas Show from 2001 includes a ton of Christmas music that no one was airing at the time. Yet, 10 years later, I was hearing some of the songs played as background music in Walmart. That how far things had come in that 10 year period.
Specifically, "Merry Christmas, Baby" by Johnny Moore's Three Blazes (Charles Brown on vocal). But even "Run Rudolf Run" (1958) by Chuck Berry was not a song I ever heard played at Christmas on Top 40 stations in the '60s and '70s.