As the old radio joke goes, when a station flips to all-Christmas music, you know Halloween can’t be too far off. 

Personally, I think stations have been pulling the trigger on that just a bit too early… It’s not that I’m anti-Christmas because I’m Jewish, because I love going to New York during Christmastime and seeing the giant tree in Rockefeller Plaza and the storybook windows at Saks, and I’m a huge fan of Christmas lights.  It’s that too much of a good thing — okay, too much of anything — is still, well, too much.  I can’t tolerate eight straight weeks of Christmas music.  I can’t tolerate eight straight weeks of Christmas anything!  It just gets tiresome.  Does anyone else remember when the Christmas season started on the day after Thanksgiving?

That said, I was amused today when the first Christmas CD of the 2007 season arrived on my desk this morning… Barry Manilow’s In the Swing of Christmas.  Not only was the first Christmas CD of the year done by a Jew, but two of the three guys in his band for this album are also Jewish.  Oh, the delicious, delicious irony.

Anyone want a Barry Manilow Christmas CD?