Why do right wing talk hosts use iconic 60's music ?!

[landtuna]

The XMAS tune "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" was also written as a coded "Christian" prayer.

That's a myth.

Perhaps not entirely. The following from Wikipedia:

A bit of modern folklore claims that the song's lyrics were written as a "catechism song" to help young Catholics learn their faith, at a time when practising Catholicism was criminalized in England (1558 until 1829). There is no primary evidence supporting this claim, and no evidence that the claim is historical, or "anything but a fanciful modern day speculation."[1] The theory is of relatively recent origin. It was first suggested by Canadian English teacher and hymnologist Hugh D. McKellar in a short article, "How to Decode the Twelve Days of Christmas," published in 1979. In a later article published in the music journal The Hymn, he reiterates that the associations are his.[14] The idea was further popularized by a Catholic priest, Fr. Hal Stockert, in an article he wrote in 1982 and posted online in 1995.[15]

Variations in lyrics provide further evidence against the "catechism song" origin. For example, the four Gospels are often described as the "four calling birds," when in fact the phrase "calling birds" is a modern (probably 20th century) phonetic reinterpretation of "colly birds" (blackbirds).[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29

 

[vchimpanzee]

The XMAS tune "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" was also written as a coded "Christian" prayer.

That's a myth.

Perhaps not entirely. The following from Wikipedia:

A bit of modern folklore claims that the song's lyrics were written as a "catechism song" to help young Catholics learn their faith, at a time when practising Catholicism was criminalized in England (1558 until 1829). There is no primary evidence supporting this claim, and no evidence that the claim is historical, or "anything but a fanciful modern day speculation."[1] The theory is of relatively recent origin. It was first suggested by Canadian English teacher and hymnologist Hugh D. McKellar in a short article, "How to Decode the Twelve Days of Christmas," published in 1979. In a later article published in the music journal The Hymn, he reiterates that the associations are his.[14] The idea was further popularized by a Catholic priest, Fr. Hal Stockert, in an article he wrote in 1982 and posted online in 1995.[15]

Variations in lyrics provide further evidence against the "catechism song" origin. For example, the four Gospels are often described as the "four calling birds," when in fact the phrase "calling birds" is a modern (probably 20th century) phonetic reinterpretation of "colly birds" (blackbirds).[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29

I don't see anything there that contradicts what I said. Christians have come up with their own interpretations of the lyrics in recent years. I got reverted for trying to add these on Wikipedia and they eventually came around and accepted the interpretations, but as a recent development.

 

[Silkie]

Well I heard Rush use Quicksilver's "Fresh Air'' as bumper music again today-a song about taking another hit of LSD.

Thanks, that's a good one for the Elements thread in 50s/60s. Do they play That Smell, by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Walking On Sunshine, by Katrina & The Waves? Or Up Up & Away, by The Fifth Dimension? Down in the Boondocks, by Billy Joe Royal? For those of us who grew up on that music instead of deciding how to mishandle it, it was just great rock and roll, pop, soul, rhythm and blues (yep, even for conservatives, regardless of registration or affiliation).

 

[MikefromDelaware]

FYI... There was a period of time in the Medievil age that the letter "X" was code for word Christ. Hence, the word XMAS. The XMAS tune "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" was also written as a coded "Christian" prayer.


Here's the deal about Xmas.

According to Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament

Words, the word Christ comes from the Greek word Christos which

means anointed. In the actual Greek language the Greek alphabet

uses a letter that to our eyes looks like an X, but in the Greek

alphabet that X is pronounced Chi (Ki). The (Ki) is the first letter of

the word that translates into Christos or Christ which means Messiah.

This is where the abbreviation of the word Christmas, Xmas, came

from. Using the first letter (Ki) X from the Greek spelling of Christ,

and mas to stand for the word mass meaning Christ mass or Christ

celebration. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this

abbreviation, Xmas, back to 1551, 50 years before the first English

colonists came to North America and 60 years before the King James

Version of the Bible was completed.

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