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“O Holy Night”
This is one of my favorite Christmas tunes from my childhood. I still remember being a Buckeye boy in Akron, Ohio, during a time when groups of neighbors would still knock on your door to sing carols to our family. This is one of the songs that they sung that has stuck with me.
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“Silent Night, Holy Night”
This is perhaps the most famous song that my church, Mt. Calvary Baptist in Akron, when I was in single digits in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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“Jingle Bells”
When I was a kid, his song is played so much between Thanksgiving and Christmas that the melodies got tattooed into my brain.
“12 Days of Christmas”
This is the song that my classmates and I would sing in elementary school during those boring class assemblies.
“Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”
When I was a lower case “T,” my brother and sisters and parents would sit in the living room together and watch the Rudolph Christmas-themed movies.
Terry Shropshire, senior writer and photographer
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