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 two weeks 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), rendered by Perry Como through the magic of television.
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