Your favorite and least favorite holiday songs?

[frogmarch]

6. All xmas songs are meh to me

except for The Little Drummer Boy. I never cared much for the song, but I didn’t hate it until the mid-sixties.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ian-brady-and-myra-hindley-court-1266949

For 17 minutes the last moments of ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey’s life were played out on tape to the hushed courtroom at Chester Assizes where Ian Brady and Myra Hindley stood trial for their appalling crimes in 1966.

The sadistic killers had lured the trusting little girl from a Manchester fairground on Boxing Day 1964 back to their home in Hattersley where they stripped her, tied her up and killed her.

They tape recorded her pleas to go home to her mum “or I’ll get killed if I don’t. Honest to God.”

Then Daily Mirror crime reporter Brian Crowther, now 79, covered the trial.

He recalls: “There was utter silence as we listened to the little girl pleading.

“I had covered lots of big trials involving all sorts of killers but I had never seen grown men cry before as they did listening to Lesley.

“Policemen walked out of court because they could not bear it anymore. No-one who heard that tape could ever escape from the memory.

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Said Brian: “I remember that the Ray Conniff Singers could be heard in the background of the tape singing The Little Drummer Boy while Lesley sobbed.

“For years afterwards, when it played on a jukebox at Christmas, you would see journalists or policemen you were drinking with walk out of the pub.

“Sometimes they came back in when it finished, other times they went home. It left a deep scar on all of us.