Show Notes
All music, no annoying chatter! A way back when, every year I would crank it up at our annual holiday hootenannies. Then eventually posting the track list online, and generally spreading the cheer. And every year people would beg me to burn them a copy. I even burned dozens of CDs as Christmas gifts in 2000. Seems that people really dig it because of the wide variety of Christmas music; it's got everything from Combustible Edison to Frank Sinatra, from the most excellent holiday special ever The Year Without a Santa Claus to the Waitresses, to Bing, Ella, Burt and lots more. I revised and expanded it for the modcast back in 2007.
Oh and stay tuned for a new Christmas modcast coming Sunday, Dec. 22! Happy Krimble!
Opening- Fred Waring Happy Holidays -- Mel Torme Jingle Bells -- Juan Garcia Esquivel Winter Wonderland -- Ella Fitzgerald Mr. Snow Miser -- Johnny Thompson** Sleigh Ride on High -- Squirrel Nut Zippers Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer -- Billy May & His Orchestra Toot, Toot, Tootie, Toot -- Duke Ellington Let It Snow -- Lena Horne Christmas in Las Vegas -- Richard Cheese* Christmas Wrapping -- The Waitresses A Time To Be Jolly -- Bing Crosby Skating -- Vince Guiraldi The Merriest -- June Christy Warm December -- Julie London We Four Kings -- The Blue Hawaiians Baby, It's Cold Outside -- Dean Martin Caroling -- Nat King Cole Trio The Bell That Couldn't Jingle -- Burt Bacharach Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling -- The Starlighters* Merry Christmas Darling -- The Carpenters It Happened In Sun Valley -- Mel Torme Ring Those Christmas Bells -- Peggy Lee Merry Christmas Everyone -- Edison LightHouse* Christmas Time Is Here -- Combustible Edison (on Late Night with Conan O'Brien)** Mr. Heat Miser -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Frosty The Snowman -- Ray Conniff Singers Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- Cyndi Lauper/Frank Sinatra Merry Christmas Baby -- Charles Brown and Bonnie Rait* Eggnong -- Ramsey Lewis Trio* Melekalikimaka -- Kasey Musgraves and Zooey Deschenel* Holiday Cheer -- The Martini's* Ixtahuele - White Christmas* Little Jack Frost -- Emilie Clair Barlow* Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -- Bing Crosby Auld Lang Syne -- Bobby Darin
*Not on original playlist **Not on Spotify Playlist
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