Anyone here over 50 who remembers the song "Happy Holidays?"

[cantstandbush]

I wasn't going to get into the Christmas "thingie" but my mind keeps singing in my head "Happy holidays, happy holidays...."
Now, why didn't that offend anyone forty years ago? And "White Christmas" that ends "May your days be merry and bright and your holidays be white." I don't think Christ was mentioned once in the song "White Christmas."

Are we the same nation that we were then? And I bet all those evangelicals who are carping about "Merry Christmas" we among the ones singing these songs the most.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Much ado over a small thing

Leave it to the politicians to spoil everything they touch.

[tuvor]

2. OT, but I have a Peggy Lee version of that song on this CD

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002TLS/qid=1133933911/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-3490267-3466211?v=glance&s=music

Great collection.

[VPStoltz]

3. Of course. The term was invented during a time when people sent

greeting cards for everything. It was meant to cover all the holidays. What's the big deal. And to think that was before big business, some owned by fanatical "Christians" outsourced American jobs to Godless countries like China so that good Christians could fight over who gets the last Xbox at Wal-Mart.

[Eric J in MN]

4. "White Christmas" ends

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

[az chela]

5. I always loved xmas music

Until I went to work in a mall and had to hear the same songs over and over and then I got very sick of them .Kinda miss them now

[leftstreet]

6. Republican fund-raising

The piggy-banks must be getting pretty low if party operatives are down to making up bullshit controversies, in return for a few fundy bucks.

Losers.

[cynthia]

7. I'm dreaming of..

a white christmas. It is in the first line but there is not much mention of jesus

tree tops glisten
children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow

with every Christmas card I write
may your days be merry and bright
and may all your Christmases be white.

That Happy Holidays one runs through my mind and if it wasn't such a catchy tune, it would be irritating
In my mind, growing up Catholic and never meeting a Jew until I was 15, I thought the holidays meant Christmas and New Year's Day. Also since everyone had Christmas day off - legal holiday and all, I have met many atheists and agnostics who celebrate it as a day of peace (dove, truce during war) and Santa Claus (because what does he have to do with the birth of Jesus? Who said Santa and his whole story was Christian?

[fedupinBushcountry]

8. Yep

didn't Bing Crosby do that one, along with White Christmas. :crazy:

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Walkin' in a winter wonderland even implies pre-marital sex.

Oh, the humanity!

[ngGale]

10. Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"....

My favorite old movie and song, it's a must see every Christmas.

I love old movies, but maybe it's the nostalgia I love best. Innocent times before - whatever happened?! There was a time when you couldn't escape these old holiday films on TV...now you are lucky to get to see one.

JMO, but the right has ruined Christmas for everybody - all faith's.
We use to celebrate together, I think we used the word holiday a lot more in the past.

I don't get it either - a political wedge issue.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

11. Was this sung by the "Chipmunks"?

nt

[BrotherBuzz]

12. the Jewish man, Irving Berlin, wrote the musical 'White Christmas"

:shrug:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

13. Irving Berlin also wrote "Happy Holidays" .

It was featured in the movie "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire made in 1942.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. LOL, I was just getting ready to edit my post and change it to Holiday Inn

My bad. :thumbsup:

on edit...White Christmas(1954) and Holiday Inn (1942) were seperate productions...Bedtime for me! :crazy:

[niyad]

15. holiday inn was the first movie where "white christmas" was sung, and it

was so popular that the studio made "white christmas" several years later--I remember seeing it when it came out.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. duly noted in my edit above

Thanks, and sorry for my confussion. LOL

[Raine]

17. I sure remember it

half of Christmas songs are stuff like 'Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' etc. and the other half are songs like 'Noel, Oh Holy Night, Silent Night'etc. that's the way it's been here in the US for probably two hundred years and now they get their bowels in an uproar. :eyes: