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John Proctor

I've never even been to Salem. I'm a writer.
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I Was Young When I Left Home
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12 Unrepentantly Happy Days of Christmas: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Vince Guaraldi

Yes, the whole album. Every song - whether whimsical and jaunty, thoughtful and meditative, or just plain silly, is a shot of pure joy. As albums go, I can think of none that so crystallize the spirit of Christmas (whatever that is) than this one. I've grown weary of the actual TV special over the years, perhaps mostly because it can't seem to go more than two minutes without a commercial interruption (I should stop watching it on cbs.com), but the music has always been what moves this slice of mid-20th Century anti-commercial commercialism.

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PostedDecember 14, 2016
AuthorJohn Proctor