Silver Bells and Gomer Pyle

      When I was a kid, every year at Thanksgiving (the date that you are publicly allowed to start listening to Christmas music) my mom would pull out their old Christmas albums, yes actual albums.  They had an old record play that had a tape deck and even an 8 track player.  How's that for rare??  I'm not sure what happened to that thing.  I don't know whether it broke or just got to be such a dinosaur (huge and old) that my mom finally threw it out in the spirit of spring cleaning, but I sure do remember the albums they used to play at Christmas.
     One of my favorites was; wait for it... Jim Nabors Christmas.  Jim Nabors, a.k.a. Gomer Pyle of The Andy Griffith Show.  Ya, he could sing.  I don't know much about him in real life, but apparently he wasn't quite the doofus he played on T.V.  I know you are laughing right now, my husband does every time I mention it.  I don't care.  I liked that album.  And it still brings back happy memories for me.  His Silver Bells rendition was my favorite song.  Since then Silver Bells has been one of my all time favorite Christmas songs.  (I'm listening to it now).  I don't know why Silver Bells.  It just is.  That song and album meant the Christmas season had officially begun.  I know Silver Bells is not a religious song and am pretty sure Jim Nabors was not a Christian but I still like it.  What's your favorite Christmas song?

Tomorrow I'll try to share with you my favorite real Christmas song (meaning a religious one).