{"id":991,"date":"2009-12-02T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/12\/christian-music-poll-whats-you.html"},"modified":"2009-12-02T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:11:15","slug":"christian-music-poll-whats-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/12\/christian-music-poll-whats-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian music poll: What&#8217;s your favorite new or classic Christmas song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas just isn&#8217;t Christmas without Bing Crosby singing &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; or Burl Ives singing about silver and gold while Rudolph runs away from the North Pole.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bing_Crosby_Christmas.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/Bing_Crosby_Christmas.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>This morning on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/splash.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Glenn Beck radio show, <\/a>Glenn and his colleagues were discussing Christmas songs, and they all agreed that no one really wants to hear an entire album of new Christmas songs. Bring on the classics!<br \/>\n<strong>Which got me thinking: what&#8217;s your favorite NEW Christmas song (written, say, in the past 10 years) and what&#8217;s your favorite CLASSIC Christmas song?<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Got a gospel or Christian music news tip? <a href=\"mailto:joanne@joannebrokaw.com\">Send me an email!<\/a><\/i><br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joannebrokaw\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas just isn&#8217;t Christmas without Bing Crosby singing &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; or Burl Ives singing about silver and gold while Rudolph runs away from the North Pole. 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