The Up Next tab in iTunes lists the next 20 songs scheduled to play in shuffle mode. It's a measure of how much I love Christmas that it's rare for 20 random selections to come up without at least one Christmas tune.
Barbara Dennerlein's version of "Sleigh Ride" just finished. "In Dulci Jubilo," performed by Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields under Sir Neville Marriner, is starting. Sandy Owen's "Once In Royal David's City/We've Been Awhile A-Wandering" medley is coming up later. For that matter, so is a Robert Shaw Chamber Singers performance of "Fum, Fum, Fum."
I will always welcome this--even in July. There's a reason why, years ago, someone I knew from college inscribed her Christmas mix tape to me, "From one Christmas crazy to another..."
