WYNA is playing "Little Drummer Boy". It's not exactly the same as the Harry Simeone version but close. The web site shows Ray Conniff but says the song title is "Medley: Jolly Old St. Nicholas".
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How much Christian music do stations play when they go all-Christmas?
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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WAY-FM's network has switched to all Chriistmas music and they're staying with a mostly CCM format with some classic Christmas music mixed in, but they're not going with as much easy listening music as The Fish in Nashville usually does.
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I watched a movie last night where a big band version of "Silent Night" was played. That's just wrong. I liked the big band music before I could tell what the song was. That's one of the great things about this time of year. It's easy to hear big band music on the radio. The actual radio.
"O Holy Night" on iHeart's WMAG.
"O Holy Night" on iHeart's WMAG.
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America's Best Music normally starts with several Christmas songs per hour and two weeks before Christmas goes all-Christmas. This year I decided to just listen to the all-Christmas stations until they did. I just heard "Joy to the World".
"Mary's Boy Child" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" together, on America's Best Music, and "Little Drummer Boy", since I was here last.
I haven't been counting but I think "From a Distance" is the first song with some Christian lyrics (or music from Christian songs) since I was here last. And those are from songs that were added to the original version.
From a Distance might loosely be considered to be considered a song with Christian lyrics depending on who sings it, but considering that the best known version was by Bette Midler, who doesn't even pretend to be a Christian, I wouldn't count it. But then in checking Wikipedia I saw where Cliff Richard, who is a Christian, did a version of it. So it depends on who is singing it. But I don't see where there is anything Christmas related in it regardless of who sings it.
Why would she pretend? She's Jewish, just like the folks who wrote "White Christmas," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" and the composer of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Oh, and "From A Distance"? Written by Julie Gold, yet Kathy Mattea, very much a Catholic, included it on her 1993 "Good News" album that had a very strong Christian message running through it.
I knew she was Jewish (ancestry), but I didn't know how she practices her faith or if she does. Like I said it depends on who is singing it. I don't want to turn this into a debate that will go over the limit of what is allowed, so I won't go any further.
For the past several years, CCM station "Star 99.1" (WAWZ) in NJ has gone all-Christmas music during the holiday season, playing 95% of the same tunes as the secular stations. Maybe they play "Christmas Shoes" more often than the AC stations, but otherwise it's the same holiday tunes by Mariah Carey, The Eagles, Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, etc. Pretty odd for a station owned and operated directly by a church!
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is not one I would expect but Hall & Oates did it, according to iHeart.
That's definitely more modern secular music than most CCM stations but that's still OK as long as it's clean. I guess you could include From a Distance as well. It sounds better than what The Fish in Nashville does in adding too much easy listening music for what is an AC CCM station the rest of the year.
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WIJV (Victory 92.7) has been playing a mix of Christian Christmas music and secular Christmas music.
On that subject, a church I walked past yesterday has chimes at noon. Like many churches, it plays hymns. Yesterday I heard "White Christmas" before a Christmas hymn.
WASL did A Jacked up Christmas again this year that started around Noon Christmas Eve and ran until 11 AM today when they went back to their regular format. It seems like they mixed in more easy listening and country Christmas music than they had in other years. Overall it was still good but I wish it had lasted longer.
Merry CHRISTmas everybody!!!
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