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Thursday, December 24, 2009
History of Christmas Carols...
LAST CAROL QUIZ #48-C...
One perishingly hot day in July 1945, the writers of this Christmas carol were in Los Angeles to talk to their publisher. When their business was finished, they thought about going to the beach to cool off, but decided to cool off by writing a winter song. They formed the beginnings of these popular lyrics.
THE ANSWER... 'LET IT SNOW!'
TODAY'S QUIZ (#58-C)...
Ad-man Robert May created a cartoon character in 1939 when he wrote a whimsical little story while working for the Montgomery Ward department stores. While growing up, May was a rather sickly, shy and introverted child, and it seems that he based the story on his childhood feelings of alienation from children of his own age.
He circulated it at Christmas time in pamphlet form among the Montgomery Ward mail-order department. Ten years later, tunesmith Johnny Marks composed a musical setting to May's cartoon character and today's popular Christmas song burst onto the holiday scene.
NAME TODAY'S CAROL...
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