My Two Cents: It's not the real Christmas music

Gazette Editor

It’s not anything to get Grinchy about, but it calls for a little Yuletide clarification, possibly a little review to put things in order, or closer to order.

Christmas comes with its own background music. Speakers in stores and restaurants crank out the tunes to get shoppers in the holiday mood.

The Christmas songs seem to hit the air waves and aisle-ways about the middle of November, and stay with us through the holiday. It’s a happy seasonal hum.

It’s also, for a goodly portion, bogus. The Christmas songs, when you really listen to them, are not the real Christmas songs. They...