When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music?

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Rank：Honorary Member Posts：3893 From：USA Register：09/07/2005 11:04:22	Date Posted：11/07/2011 05:41:15Copy HTML When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? October November December I play all year long!
CluelessInSeattle	Share to: #1
Rank：Diamond Posts：312 From：USA Register：01/22/2011 05:14:18	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/07/2011 03:42:32Copy HTML Can we include the caveat that, for the purpose of this poll, something like test-playing a brand new CD purchased during the off-season doesn't count? Or the occasional playing of a track off-season to check on some detail of the recording, the performance, etc. probably shouldn't count either; right? What I'm curious to find out is when most of us here at the Yule Log have our Christmas music in heavy rotation on our players. Will in Seattle a.k.a. "Clueless"
Christmas Music Guru	Share to: #2
Rank：Honorary Member Posts：3893 From：USA Register：09/07/2005 11:04:22	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/07/2011 09:08:28Copy HTML Will, I think most folks will know that the poll question pertains to the time when they start playing their Christmas music in earnest. If they want to qualify their vote with a notation of any kind, they can just file a post on the thread. Lawrence F. "Chip" Arcuri Owner/Webmaster \| The Yule Log.com
Scut_Farcus	Share to: #3
Rank：Bronze Posts：5 From：USA Register：07/12/2011 11:59:33	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/08/2011 12:47:39Copy HTML Had to vote year round, but usually, it's late July- early August. My iPod make that change over around that time. Maybe it's cooling mowing the lawn when it's 90 while listening to Bing or Perry.
CluelessInSeattle	Share to: #4
Rank：Diamond Posts：312 From：USA Register：01/22/2011 05:14:18	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/08/2011 02:17:52Copy HTML Wow! You mean you can program your iPod to change playlists automatically on certain dates? Will in Seattle a.k.a. "Clueless"
Scut_Farcus	Share to: #5
Rank：Bronze Posts：5 From：USA Register：07/12/2011 11:59:33	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/08/2011 11:11:51Copy HTML Sorry, poorly worded by me. I choose a different playlist when I go out to do yardwork around that time. Patiently waiting for the local radio to make the change. I know it's the same songs, but there's something about hearing Christmascmusic over the radio.
RayClaus	Share to: #6
Rank：Silver Posts：58 From：USA Register：01/08/2010 02:42:43	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/08/2011 11:34:23Copy HTML Thanks for doing the poll Chip. It was a great idea!
portroad	Share to: #7
Rank：Bronze Posts：32 From：USA Register：02/02/2011 01:51:37	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：11/13/2011 04:44:45Copy HTML My wife and I "sort of" play our Christmas music year-round but I voted "October" in the poll since late in October is when we play it much more often, ramping up to about now when it's going almost all the time. During the rest of the year (roughtly March - September) we play one CD or LP on a Saturday or Sunday on, or near, the 25th of the month...weird, I know!!
Max_Cherry	Share to: #8
Rank：Bronze Posts：42 From：USA Register：12/27/2011 04:54:44	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/27/2011 07:02:05Copy HTML I usually play the first Christmas song on THE FIRST colder day in late summer. You know, it might be late August or early September, and you'll get that cold day or night when the temperatures dip, and I'll think, "Well, I guess summer is over...." I'll turn the air conditioning off, get out a sweatshirt, and look for Perry Como.
UpstateNY	Share to: #9
Rank：Bronze Posts：9 From：USA Register：11/29/2014 08:54:16	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/08/2014 12:06:38Copy HTML I start listening the day after Thanksgiving, and listen up until Christmas day. I have a lot of favorite albums to listen to each year, but I manage to fit them all in during that time.
Winter_Warlock	Share to: #10
Rank：Silver Posts：50 From：USA Register：05/30/2013 06:51:59	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/08/2014 07:00:54Copy HTML November is accurate for when regular playtime begins. More technically, one or two songs get played as soon as Trick-or-Treating is over, just as a sort of "launch event." Though the point when the music starts playing regularly is difficult for me to determine. It just sort of happens. The timing of the first snowfall probably has an impact on this too, and that always gets accompanied by The Carpenters' "First Snowfall," and consequently, the remainder of the LP.
joliom	Share to: #11
Rank：Gold Posts：115 From：USA Register：01/23/2011 03:52:58	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/09/2014 05:56:21Copy HTML I wait until the first of December. Of course, the radio starts playing Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving, so that makes it more of a challenge. When I start hearing inferior modern renditions of certain songs, it only makes me want to break out the definitive versions all that much sooner. There's only so many times I can suffer through Justin Bieber singing "The Christmas Song" before I need a dose of Nat King Cole or Johnny Mathis to cleanse the palate, so to speak.
log_fan	Share to: #12
Rank：Platinum Posts：274 From：USA Register：12/26/2006 08:26:49	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/28/2014 05:28:55Copy HTML I start listening in early November, in bits and pieces. I put up my tree the weekend before Thanksgiving. Once that's in place, it's all Christmas music for me! I listen to Christmas Music through Dec 25 and gradually wean off it in the days following. Sometimes, I'll cue up an album or song I didn't get to hear that season or that I just want to hear again one more time for one reason or another. I know I've probably said this elsewhere, but NFL playoffs and bowl games ease my transition from Christmas to the New Year. Next November, I'll welcome back the Christmas season and Christmas music like a long-lost friend! It makes me appreciate it that much more! Absence does make the heart grow fonder! Happy New Year to all!
richiedoo	Share to: #13
Rank：Platinum Posts：232 From：Unknown Register：09/12/2004 02:57:08	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/26/2015 11:26:16Copy HTML Just saw this posting....for the most part I usually start around mid-November. They say that the arrival of Santa Claus in the Thanksgiving Day Parade begins the unofficial start of Christmas which tell me it's time to drag out the Xmas albums CD's etc and put up the tree or turn on the YL if you have a copy to watch! But i must admit...during the spring and summer months especially on my free days while I tool around with youtube, I have been known to throw in a Xmas song or 2 in between! The cast of Sesame Street always sang "Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year" in the parade...I believe that what I just described defines just that....agreed?
Ginabird	Share to: #14
Rank：Bronze Posts：3 From：USA Register：01/18/2012 12:54:28	Re：When Do You Start Playing Your Christmas Music? Date Posted：12/05/2016 10:06:41Copy HTML We generally start the week after Thanksgiving. Although my husband plays it all year long.