Christmas Price Index chose the items in the popular Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as its market basket: a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers. According to tradition, the purchasing of the items begins on December 26 and ends on January 6. PNC compiles both a "Christmas Price Index" and "The True Cost of Christmas." The "Christmas Price Index" is calculated by adding the cost of the items in the song. The "True
The Many Moods of Christmas President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22, 1963, cast a pall over Christmas for many Americans that year. In 1971, chorus/piano octavos were published by Lawson-Gould. Orchestral score and parts are now rented by European American Music. In 1983, two years after Robert Russell Bennett's death, Shaw recorded a somewhat revised digital stereo version of "The Many Moods of Christmas", with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, released that December by Telarc. It was the first of three Christmas albums that Robert Shaw recorded for Telarc. While the first version of "The Many Moods of Christmas" had