Elvis' White Christmas album brings back some great memories of being at my Gram G's house during a December long past. In particular, the White Christmas album was the one and only CD that my Grandmother had owned for I'm guessing a 3 year period maybe ? In addition to the obviously required CD player ( a SONY ) with dual cassette deck and an FM receiver, the kind of boom box a young kid would sell his sister for... she just preferred to not engage in CD collecting or was just satisfied with radio music.
Now I believe she actually owned her CD player for some time without collecting many CDs. And although she was quite technologically savvy for her era, using a computer and Internet and such late into her 70's, self operation of the CD player was something not to be tackled alone. ( I mean this thing had a laser beam inside it, and came with an (insert JAWS music).. a remote control). So she simply preferred to use it as the Radio it was fully capable of, and an available 'Christmas music player' complete with a CD, when company or a visiting Grandson would require a seasonal jingle during that specific time of year.
So, Elvis White Christmas was the choice, the only choice. And I gotta tell ya, whenever I think of Christmas music, other than the horribly traumatizing experiences of grade school Christmas Concerts where us kids were forced to participate in an Auschwitz Apocalypse of harmony and melody... all while wearing some ridiculous garb our mothers would force us to wear, like brown corduroy pants and some handmade uber gay itchy sweater.. built by an anonymous friend of an Aunty's cousins sister from Norway who moved to Winnipeg in '46... made especially for us in 1983... ,
.. at Christmas, I only think of Elvis.
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