It’s Beginning ….

It's Beginning ....

On the shelves of Retail America, it began to look like Christmas the day after Halloween. The perfume and electric shaver ads began appearing a few weeks later, and we’ve already had a week of commercial-heavy seasonal TV specials. Try to dig yourself out of the blizzard of consumerist frenzy.

“It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas,” by Meredith Willson (1950).

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