Holiday Music,The Rock and England at a glance

I�ve decided to start dating these columns, to give you a better idea of how they relate to reality, which has usually changed quite a bit between their writing and the time you see them. This decision came to me as I sat here planning my review of this year�s batch of Christmas records and suddenly realized that most people wouldn�t see this column until at least February ... Christmas records have always been with us, starting in a big way with Bing Crosby�s �White Christmas� (Decca 23778) which seems to have been routinely reissued just about every November since 1941 or so.