Years ago--for reasons I won't drag you into now--I decided that a happy Christmas season would be one in which I didn't hear "The Little Drummer Boy."
Once, in the 20 years or so since I started keeping track, I made it to Christmas day without hearing It. Other than that one lucky season, my personal best was December 17th.
Until this year, my worst showing was the year I heard it on December 3rd.
Today--Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving--I heard it at around 4pm on the canned music at the local supermarket.
And it's still November.
Yeesh. The good news is that, next year, it can only get better.
2 comments:
Was it the Bing Crosby/David Bowie version?
Sadly no. It was just some generic singer with a generic studio orchestra, sold by the yard for supermarket soundtracks.
At least losing to the Bowie/Crosby version, curiosity that it is, would still have had some dignity.
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