![]() ![]() There’s a rich diversity of genres and performers, but the playlist focuses on stuff that’s flown under the radar. With just under 4,000 songs and just under eight days of music, you could start shuffling the songs on the list right now, play it 24/7, and still have plenty of music left over by the time you went to bed on Christmas Day.Īnd these are not songs you’ve heard a million times before. ![]() ![]() How was anybody to ever possibly find what was good in that enormous pile? Many listeners only checked out playlists containing the same handful of songs your average department store runs into the ground, further increasing those songs’ ubiquity.Įnter Ross-MacLeod and his playlist. With the rise of Spotify and other music streaming services, it was easy enough to place digital versions of those songs where any subscriber could listen.īut that made an already mountainous amount of holiday music even more mountainous. (Long live 2006!)īut the rise of these sites proved to many labels, both major and boutique, that there was value in the many Christmas albums just gathering dust in their vaults. Digitizing this music existed in a legal gray area: It technically broke copyright, but since the albums were no longer available commercially (and since many of them had unclear situations in regards to who held the copyright to begin with), cease and desist letters were much more rare than they were for your average Limewire or Kazaa user. When I first delved into this community in the mid-2000s, all involved were legitimately preserving albums and songs that had essentially disappeared. Ross-MacLeod is one of the go-to names in the small but mighty community of people online collecting any and all Christmas music they can find they all tend to be extremely nice people who will geek out over discovering an album of Burl Ives singing Christmas carols with spoken-word intros about how they were supposedly adored by various presidents. The forums are still the most active part of the site and we’ve been going since 2004.” I couldn’t find anybody in nowhere Pennsylvania, so I started a website to bring them to me. When you have a weird passion like that, you really want to connect with others who share it. “I started hitting the thrift stores where I was living in central Pennsylvania for old vinyl. “Those two discs really opened my ears to the world of Christmas music hidden from mainstream radio at that point,” Ross-MacLeod told me. But his interest in the genre as a hobbyist he traces to the late 1990s, when the release of two CDs named Christmas Cocktails rekindled his interest in old holiday tunes. Ross-MacLeod traces his love of holiday music first to Christmas music albums by the Hollyridge Strings and Mike Sammes Singers that his parents played when he was a kid. It also serves as a hub, through its forum, that connects a bunch of other essential Christmas music websites, like Ernie, Not Bert and Hip Christmas. the proprietor of, hands down the best online hub for the discussion of and collection of obscure Christmas music. Washington state-based teacher Brad Ross-MacLeod, a.k.a. It’s curated by “the King of Jingaling,” a.k.a. ![]()
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