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Playlist: Christmas/Chanukah

Compiled By: Raymond Pang

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From Hearing Voices | Part of the Hearing Voices series | 54:00

Christmas at a Bagram Air Base hospital, Afghanistan; a tour of the Holy Land, Hannukah military history; a visit to a toy store; and musical Chrismashups.

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Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices

Mixes and mashes and seasonal samples, and song stories:

 

"Christmas Eve In Afghanistan, Again" (2010 / 3:30) Quil Lawrence

NPR talks to troops in a U.S. military hospital at Bagram Air Base, outside of Kabul. Quil Lawrence interviewed Sergeant Wallace Trahan, Sergeant Aaron Kelly, Sergeant Zachary Scoskie, and Colonel Diane Huey. Mix: Jim Wildman. Music: W.G. Snuffy Walden "The First Noel" Windham Hill Holiday Guitar Collection.

"Please Be Patient" (2009 / 2:23) Feist

From a "A Colbert Christmas" special from Comedy Central by The Colbert Report.

"Christmas Greeting From Space" (1968 ) Astronaut Frank Borman

From the Apollo 8 capsule, December 24, 1968.

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"Oh come all ye faithful" (1978 / 2:19) Michigan Children's Psychiatric Hospital

The Children of the University of Michigan Children's Psychiatric Hospital perform some season's classic on their album Christmas at C.P.H..

"Silent Night/A Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis" (1978 / 5:55) Tom Waits

Live performance on Auston City Limits, December, 1978. Another version:

"Yuletide Zeppelin" (2007 / 5:10) mojochronic

From the Christmashup collection A Very Bootie Christmas 2; originally on Santastic III in 3-D: both have free downloads. Mark Jeffery (mojochronic): MySpace | SoundCloud.

"White Christmas" (2001 / 3:21) Corporal Blossom

From another Christmashup collection: A Mutated Christmas.

"Holy Land Tour" (2009 / 13:27) Jake Warga

A personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it's like today between Jerusalem and Bethlehem… between birth and re-birth.

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"Give the Jew Girl Toys" (2006 / 2:20) Sarah Silverman

Off her CD Jesus Is Magic.

"The T in Xmas" (2001 / 2:55) Barrett Golding

A Hanukkhristmashup tour of Bozeman, Montana: in a toy store, with Salvation Army bell ringers, Hebrew military history, the songs of the Sweet Adelaides, and "Amazing Grace" guitars by Blake Simpson.

"Candlelight" (2010 / 3:17) Maccabeats

Light 'em if you got 'em. It's Hanukkah, and here's why. Based on Mike Tompkins' a cappella version of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite". Video by Uri Westrich:

"MetLife Xmas Message" (1923 / 2:48)

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. President Haley Fisk's 1923 Christmas Message to his employees, along with the MetLife Glee Club. MP3s at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else.

Top photo © Jake Warga.

Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas

From All Classical Public Media | 59:00

Mark O’Connor, famous bluegrass fiddler and respected American composer, leads the O’Connor Band and special guest Nancy Ives, principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony, in An Appalachian Christmas.

Prx_image_small Mark O’Connor, famous bluegrass fiddler and respected American composer, leads the O’Connor Band and special guest Nancy Ives, principal cellist of the Oregon Symphony, in An Appalachian Christmas . Hear holiday favorites including “The Cherry Tree Carol,” “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” “Carol of the Bells,” and more! Plus, Mark O’Connor talks about the importance of fiddling in the development of early American music. Recorded LIVE at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon December 2016.

Soul Christmas!

From Howard Burchette | Part of the Holiday Classics series | 55:39

SOUL CHRISTMAS!

Here are some of the greatest Soul and R&B holiday winter classics ever recorded. Today on this show you will hear Christmas tunes from JAMES BROWN, OTIS REDDING, THE OJAY’S, DONNIE HATTHAWAY,THE JACKSON FIVE, STEVIE WONDER, BOOKER T & THE MG’S, plus others. Have a very merry SOUL CHRISTMAS today on Soul Roots.

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Christmas would not be Christmas without The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The O’Jays, Otis Redding, The Jackson Five, The Ronettes, James Brown, Issac Hayes and others. Deck the halls! It’s Christmas Time and it’s time for Soul and a happy good time.

Seasons Greetings let’s have a very Soul Christmas