I, too, love Xmas tunes, but I would go you one further. There are certain tunes that I have to hear at this time of year, and they have to be a certain recording from a certain artist.

I cannot imagine a Christmas season without Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song, Sinatra with The Christmas Waltz, Bing with I’ll Be Home for Christmas and quite a few others.

I like other versions, mind you, but they all pale to my set songs. I guess it takes me back to a time when I was not so jaded and Christmas was all about family and cookies and Christmas Vacation and waiting to see Santa.

Geeky? Sure. Cheesy? You bet. But at least I didn’t have a morbid fascination with cops being gunned down in coffee shops or sports heroes falling from grace.

That was way too funny, I had stuff spraying out of my head when I finished.