Podcast 43 - Back Stories of Christmas Songs

Due to some technical difficulties as well as holiday events, Gena and Jean are posting just one podcast for December 2017. They should return with 2 per month in the New Year. Happy Holidays to all!

In this podcast (#43), Gena and Jean discuss holiday songs and the reasons they were written. The focus is on those lyrics that were penned as a result of the various wars America engaged in.

The first half is available here: Podcast 43 - FREE version

Photo above is Jean with her father, L. Roy Wilcox, at the organ he built in the 1960s

Below is a listing of resources used in the podcast:

Christmas in Many Lands: From Poets, Artists, Writers, Photographers. Minneapolis, MN: The Alfred

Colle Co., 1937.

Christmas in Many Lands: Yuletide Carols, Customs, Legends and Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg

Publishing House, 1938.

Collins, A. Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2001.

Grant, G. & Wilbur, G.  Christmas Spirit: The Joyous Stories, Carols, Feasts, and Traditions of the Season.

New York: Gramercy Books, 1999.

Haugan, R. E. (editor). Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art, Vol 17, 2^nd Ed.

Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1947.

Haugan, R. E. (editor). Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art, Vol 23, 2^nd Ed.

Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1953.

Hooper, V. B. (editor).  Christmas Ideals, Vol. 3. Milwaukee: Ideals Pub. Co., 1946.

Hooper, V. B. (editor).  Ideals: Christmas Issue. Milwaukee: Ideals Pub. Co., Oct. 1958.

Hooper, V. B. (editor). Louis Allis Messenger. Milwaukee: The Louis Allis Co., Nov.-Dec., 1938.

Mikkelson, B. & D. P. “Christmas Truce.” Snopes.com. Retreived from http://www.snopes.com/holidays

               /christmas/truce.asp, 30 July 2007.

Roseheaver, R. (compiler). Christmas Customs and Carols. Winona Lake, IN: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., 1942.

Rosenberg, J. “Christmas Truce at the World War I Front.”  About.com. Retrieved from 

               http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/christmastruce_3.htm, 2007.

Yuletide in Many Lands. Minneapolis, MN: The Alfred Colle Co., 1939.