Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Warped expectations?
Surprisingly, no St. Louis radio station has switched to all Christmas music so far this year. I know it's only a matter of time. Strange that it's now normal to expect at least one station to have jumped the gun by November 15...Once upon a time, that wasn't the norm.
November 16 update: I knew it was only a matter of time. KEZK flipped over to all Christmas music at noon, and KLOU started mixing in Christmas music not long after that. As expected, a lot of the most predictable boxes are being checked off. That's not a bad thing, when the most predictable tracks are by Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, The Carpenters, Brenda Lee, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Vince Guaraldi Trio, The Ronettes, James Taylor, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, and Amy Grant. All of those artists recorded Christmas tracks that are evergreens for good reasons.