With the barrage of holiday music well under way, I'm thinking as I do every year about the Christmas-by-default songs: Jingle Bells, its derivative Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Let It Snow, and Winter Wonderland - what might more properly be considered winter songs, but which have got lumped in with the carols. The latter two might be good Valentine's Day songs if they weren't beaten to death every December. Oddly, the same fate doesn't seem to have befallen Baby, It's Cold Outside - maybe it's just risque enough to resist seasonal sentiment. And I'm guessing Frank Black's Manitoba is right out.....