Talk:Home for the Holidays (song)

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SPECULATION: I hear this song at least twice a day booming from the store speakers below my tiny NYC apt. Listening to it before I go to work and when I return, my mind begins to dissect it: I wonder if it has a hidden motive, a marketing purpose borne from psycho-analyst roots. Was this song composed with a hidden goal of stimulating a mass cross country travel urge within the minds of post-war Americans? Why is it so important to be home for the holidays? How could one research this decades later? 72.229.121.203 (talk) 15:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)Mike in Tiny Apt

I doubt there there were any hidden meanings or agenda in the song but have become fascinated by it in recent years. It's resonant, ambient, and I just looked it up here, as I was curious when it first came out. My guess was shortly after World War II, probably pre-1950, not later than 1955, and I was near to the mark when I found out it was 1954. My sense is that it's a transitional song, which makes it nostalgic. Those long car trips on the big highways were a fairly new phenomenon at the time, and there's a kind "incipient regionalism" in the lyrics, with the twice mentioning of Pennsylvania, once for Tennessee, then "Dixie's sunny shore" (Florida,--why not just say it?-because Florida wasn't as big a deal in '54 as it would be five or ten years later). Yet despite the "Atlantic to Pacific" reference late in the song it feels very "east of the Mississippi", and culturally conservative, which is to say old school at the core, a far cry from, say, Rockin' Round The Christmas Tree. As someone born around the time the song came out it has a special meaning for me, difficult to define. Very much of another time, and yet a time I remember, albeit vaguely.--Telegonus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Telegonus (talk • contribs) 09:17, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

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Loretta Lynn
I cannot find any evidence to back up the claim that Loretta Lynn co-arranged this with Joe Reisman. The claim is either unsourced or backed up by the catalog citation after the next sentence. But looking at the vinyls with those catalog numbers they all only credit Reisman. Tidal only credits Reisman as well. Searching for Lynn's involvement only yields a cover she did years later. I am removing this claim from the page for now. CAMERAwMUSTACHE (talk) 16:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)