Patrick Donohue is the proudest Indiana native you're likely to find. Seriously. No one is prouder to be from a state that so many people know relatively so little about than he is. Patrick is a native of Terre Haute and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. Knowing this, you might think he’d be a huge John "Cougar" Mellencamp fan, a man considered by some to be the Hoosier State's poet laureate. But you'd be wrong. In a major way. | Some of the Christmas songs that I love feel more like part of my DNA than a taste I acquired over time.
I grew up listening to Bing Crosby and Burl Ives and that Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton Christmas album that no one expect my immediate family seems to love or even remember.
Yet there are countless other Christmas songs that I became aware of only after the fact but still count as some of my favorite holiday jams.
Today's song, Elton John's "Step Into Christmas" is one of them.
Less than a month until Christmas Day. Can you believe it?