Song 751: This week the playlist features Little Saint Nick by The Beach Boys, written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, and you can find a cool YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. When this yuletide anthem arrived 61 years ago, I might possibly not have heard it, since I didn't start paying much attention to the radio until after the Beatles rocked my world a couple of months later, but maybe I did hear it then and I just don't remember doing so. When the green wreaths started appearing the next time around, though, I definitely did get to hear it, and sing along with it when it rode the airwaves. While my folks disparaged the devil's music, this kind of tune could become an exception to the rule, so if the car radio featured it as we all rode along, heading somewhere around the time of year when the air gets cold, they would allow my brothers and me to sing along with run run reindeer and celebrate a real famous cat all dressed in red.
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