They celebrated American values such as family bonds, fires burning, hearts yearning, sleigh bells ringing and a bullied caribou who gets the last laugh.Ī few fresher hits joined the club later, such as “Feliz Navidad,” gifting us with welcome diversity in 1970 Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in 1984, and Mariah Carey’s happy “All I Want for Christmas Is You” 20 years ago, in 1994. Most Christmas megahits were written between 19, including “Winter Wonderland” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (both in 1934), “White Christmas” (1942), “The Christmas Song” (1946) and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949). You put on a fire, you have the Christmas tree, and the sound of those old tunes is warm and gooey.”
“Fifty years ago, people were not afraid to be sentimental,” Thompson said. Messersmith’s producer Andy Thompson agrees.
“The reason it’s so hard to write a great blues song is that most of the best ones have already been taken,” he said. “To write a great Christmas song, you have to get in something about the romance and the spirit of the season,” said Kevin Bowe, a veteran Twin Cities producer and songwriter known for his blues rock, as well as collaborations with the Replacements and Etta James. Why is it so hard to write an enduring modern Christmas melody? (Or, for that matter, a good Hanukkah tune? Despite their noble attempt, there’s just so much the Barenaked Ladies can do with “I Have a Little Dreidel.”) It’s because there aren’t any other good ones. Somehow, it never occurred to me until this year that there was a reason radio stations play, and vocalists cover, the same 20 songs over and over and over. I drag friends to Christmas concerts, collect CDs and set my car radio to 24-hour holiday tunes beginning the day after Thanksgiving. He wrote a Christmas song - "Let's Ditch Christmas" - that’s really good.Īctually, I’m just a Jewish girl who’s crazy about Christmas music and have been since I was a little girl.
The local singer-songwriter will be sunning on a beach with his wife, Vanessa, and who can blame him for wanting to escape?īesides, Messersmith, who was singled out by Time magazine as one of 14 musicians to watch in 2014, has dropped an invaluable gift on the Twin Cities that’s nothing short of a miracle: Jeremy Messersmith won’t be home for Christmas.
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