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    The 101 Best Christmas Songs
    The 101 Best Christmas Songs
    The 101 Best Christmas Songs
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    The 101 Best Christmas Songs

    By Steve Akley

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    The perfect holiday song can really go a long way to amping up your Christmas spirit. Selecting the right songs for a playlist can be a daunting task though. The timeless aspect of the genre means that you have options that span 1,000s of titles from artists going back to the 1950s, or earlier, to choose from.

    This book, The 101 Best Christmas Songs, helps you conquer this task by filtering out the best loved Christmas classics and then takes it a step further by identifying the artist/band that best represents the selection (and up to three runners-up). With this guide you have a comprehensive resource to create the ultimate playlist, ensuring your jingles are jangled, your yule is cool and your snowman is frosty this Christmas season!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Akley
    Release dateMar 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301990856
    The 101 Best Christmas Songs
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    Steve Akley

    Steve Akley is a lifelong St. Louis resident. He grew up in, and now lives with his family in the south St. Louis county community of Oakville.While it took him more than 40 years (okay, 45) to get his first book published, doing so has caused a flurry of creative ideas for new works. With a simple direction of writing about subject matter that he likes, he has a lot of potential material to write about.He looks forward to getting more of his ideas out there for others to enjoy.He thanks you for your interest in his work!

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      The 101 Best Christmas Songs - Steve Akley

      Preface

      Starting approximately November 1 every year, Christmas music begins to appear in our lives. On the radio, in the grocery store, and on TV commercials, we start to hear those familiar tunes. The songs themselves can often bring their own unique set of memories. Whether it’s a favorite childhood activity, like baking cookies while Mom plays her stack of holiday favorites, or perhaps the memories of a scene from a holiday movie where a song sets the stage for Christmas cheer, these songs can represent powerful imagery.

      There are several factors which make Christmas music so unique. It’s timeless. If you play the popular songs or top hits from any given year, they literally become time stamped. It doesn’t diminish the relevance or how great an individual song is, but there is a feel to music by the decades. That point is clear whether you are speaking of the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70’s, 80s, 90s or 00s. This doesn’t happen with Christmas music. The perfect song, by the perfect artist, sounds as fresh and new as anyone trying to recreate it decades later. There are no oldies with Christmas music.

      Another great differentiator between Christmas songs and other types of music is the impact it has on an individual’s demeanor. While there may be factors which counteract this phenomenon, for the most part, Christmas music brings about a good mood in individuals. A dance song may elicit a call to get up and move. A ballad may make you feel all squishy inside about a love interest. A Christmas song just puts you in a happy mood. How many times have you been out Christmas shopping, stretching your credit limit to the max but have been as happy as could be as you were singing along in your head with a Christmas tune playing at the mall? That’s pretty powerful.

      The final component to consider about Christmas music is simply that it’s magic. Christmas is a special time of the year where we spend time with loved ones, reflect on those we’ve lost in our lives and do good things for our friends, family and in many cases total strangers. Christmas music is very much a part of these activities. If you don’t believe me, think about this: for all of the compelling reasoning I’ve made about how special Christmas music is, put on a Christmas song in July. It just

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