It's that time of the year, and yeah, I mean Christmas! There are two really favorite songs for the Yuletide that I really adore, but for slightly sad reasons. The first, "I'll Be Home For Christmas", a song recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, speaks of the holiday with "Mistletoe" and "Snow', but being written from a WW two soldier's view point which points up the war effort prevalent at that time. The line "if only in my dreams . . ." gives an added unexpected punch. Melancholy indeed!
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Many years later (1970), Richard and Karen Carpenter came up with "Merry Christmas, Darling" A song that Frank Pooler had written for a paramour in 1946. Richard Carpenter took the ill-fated lyrics and composed a new tune. In Novemer of 1970 it premiered. There was that last line punch again with "I wish I were with you" after the build-up. Both are now classics, several generations apart
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