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I'll go if they promise NOT to sing "The Christmas Shoes".

My thoughts exactly, Paul. My thoughts exactly!

Don't even get me started.
For over five years, I've tried to get local radio stations to play "Heaven In A Manger", the Christmas song that my wife and I wrote and recorded a few years ago. I begged the music director at an unnamed station in Atlanta to just NOT play "The Christmas Shoes" ONCE, and play our song...if he got no requests for more, then fine. I listened to their station all day on the web. Over a dozen times they played it.
I said that surely they could do without one of those plays.
He said that since their audience is Christian soccer moms that listen to their station in the car on the way to places, they needed to play their favorite songs as much as possible so they'll hear it in their car.
AAaaaaarrrgggh.
Oh, and by the way. "The Christmas Shoes" is the number 2 most downloaded song in the CCM section of iTunes. Go figure.

Post edited by: Paul J., at: 2007/11/20 21:58