Christmas songs
Your Take: Most Hated and Most Loved Holiday Songs
We love music on The Takeaway, and we know you do to. So it’s no surprise that when we asked, you delivered. A ton of responses this morning to our question: What are your most loved or most hated holiday songs? Wallace Graham in Brighton Beach, N.Y., had this to say: The Christmas song I […]
The Art and Business Behind Holiday Songs
It’s everywhere in the air right now – at the supermarket, the pharmacy, in elevators, and in streets of cities across the country – not good cheer, but that endless loop of holiday music. Aside from annoying cynics or providing a soundtrack to Norman Rockwell-times around the dinner table, well-worn tunes like “White Christmas” or […]
Remixing the Holidays: Hip Hop Holiday Music
It’s the week before Christmas, and as usual, we’re celebrating with our annual ?Remixing the Holidays? series. All week long, we’ll be talking with musicians, music lovers, writers, and you, our listeners, about the best songs of the season. We kick things off with Jon Solomon. For over twenty years, Jon ? who is Jewish, […]