During the Christmas season, the same Christmas tunes are heard everywhere over and over: on the radio, over supermarket public address systems, etc. We hear tunes like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "White Christmas," "Santa Baby," "Winter Wonderland," to name a few.
One tune missing from that playlist is one that was featured in the 1974 thriller The Odessa File, which starred Jon Voight as a young German journalist. At the beginning of the film, he is seen driving on a German city street with his car radio playing Perry Como singing a song called "Christmas Dream." The song, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and English lyrics by Tim Rice, is, to my ears, very beautiful and deserves airplay.
The movie, set in 1963 and based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, is about the search for an escaped Nazi war criminal who ran a concentration camp. Does being on such a movie's soundtrack taint the song? I hope not.
I've read the lyrics and I could find nothing offensive or off-putting about it. The fact that Perry Como sang it should be reason enough to consider putting it on a station's Christmas playlist.
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