Christmas brings out the pixie in record companies, or at least it encourages them to bring out their pixie singers. Time was when things were sweet and sentimentalas when homesick G.I.s made a nice, solid hit of Irving Berlin's White Christmasbut that mood was dimmed in the smoke of a goofy juvenile called All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (1948), and the pixies took over. The following year, all the kiddie stars were lisping the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and 1952 brought the coyest Christmas hit, I Saw...
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