When I was in maybe 2nd or 3rd grade I hadn’t really absorbed the differences among actually religious carols, traditional but not very overtly religious carols, and pop music with Christmas elements that was in effect “traditional” as Christmas song. It was all one bucket, and as far as I knew was fixed and just a part of the firmly established tradition.
But then … suddenly … we learned that there was a new Christmas Carol! How could that be? Had an official body accepted it into the canon? Had there been any investigation into how this could happen?
It was sort of on the religious side, since it mentioned the Baby Jesus, in some guise. But it had a sort of modern melody, and a storytelling approach. It was this “Little Drummer Boy”.
Little drummer boy – I hear (read) the title and little Richie Petrie singing it on the Alan Brady show (Dick Van Dyke Show) one year is heard in my head.
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When I was in maybe 2nd or 3rd grade I hadn’t really absorbed the differences among actually religious carols, traditional but not very overtly religious carols, and pop music with Christmas elements that was in effect “traditional” as Christmas song. It was all one bucket, and as far as I knew was fixed and just a part of the firmly established tradition.
But then … suddenly … we learned that there was a new Christmas Carol! How could that be? Had an official body accepted it into the canon? Had there been any investigation into how this could happen?
It was sort of on the religious side, since it mentioned the Baby Jesus, in some guise. But it had a sort of modern melody, and a storytelling approach. It was this “Little Drummer Boy”.
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RE: Heading . . . are we there (2027) already? So, what’s happened in the world? Curious minds [well, mine at least} want to know!
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Just because I CAN create posts using my cell phone’s keyboard, doesn’t mean I SHOULD create posts using my cell phone’s keyboard.
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Dang! I was so hoping you could tell us what’s happened . . .
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This panel appeared as part of an Oy-Oy-Oy in 2018.
P.S. @ Andréa – Just another one of Bill’s notorious typos.
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Yeah, I know – I like to work with ’em.
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Little drummer boy – I hear (read) the title and little Richie Petrie singing it on the Alan Brady show (Dick Van Dyke Show) one year is heard in my head.
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