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Love songs for Christmas
The Philippine Star
|December 17, 2024
A soldier in the battlefield longing to be home for Christmas inspired the great composer Irving Berlin to write White Christmas in 1942.
Thus, was born the first secular Christmas song which has now sold over 50 million copies. Before this, Christmas songs were sacred, church-sourced and traditional, dating back to centuries ago. White Christmas changed all that.
More than 80 years later, creating Christmas music has become a huge business and one of the biggest earners of all time is All I Want for Christmas, a composition by singer Mariah Carey and record producer Walter Afanasieff. It is not traditional or church sourced. It is a secular Christmas song and more than all that, it is a love song.
The success of White Christmas spawned more secular Christmas songs. Among those were Here Comes Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and I'll Be Home for Christmas, which was also inspired by soldiers wanting to be home for Christmas.
These were also all recorded by Bing Crosby and became very popular.
A short while later there came You're All I Want for Christmas.
Remember, "...then I'll awake on Christmas morning and find my stockings filled with you?"
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