Playlist: Holiday and New Year's Spoken Word 2022
Compiled By: PRX Editors
Holiday and New Year's Spoken Word 2022. We will continue to add specials as they become available!
More to come!
New or Updated for 2022
THE 2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - HOUR 1 (with an optional HOUR 2)
From Paul Ingles | 59:00
Some of the top names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this hour long special hosted by music historian and documentarian Paul Ingles. Among those featured Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie, Rock drummer Taylor Hawkins, Country music's Loretta Lynn and Naomi Judd, Rappers Coolio and Takeoff, Motown writer Lamont Dozier, Jazz great Ramsey Lewis, Olivia Newton-John, pioneering rocker Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. 35 songs from these late great artists are sampled.
Some of the top names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this hour long special hosted by music historian and documentarian Paul Ingles. Among those featured Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie, Ronnie Spector, Country music's Loretta Lynn and Naomi Judd, Rappers Coolio and Takeoff, Motown writer Lamont Dozier, Jazz great Ramsey Lewis, Olivia Newton-John, pioneering rocker Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. 20 artists are mentioned and 35 songs from these late great musicians are sampled.
PLAYLIST
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac (excerpt) [CHRISTINE McVIE]
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac (excerpt) [CHRISTINE McVIE]
Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac (excerpt( [CHRISTINE McVIE]
Come A Little Bit Closer - Fleetwood Mac [CHRISTINE McVIE]
Be My Baby - The Ronettes [RONNIE SPECTOR]
This Flight Tonight - Nazereth [DAN McCAFFERTY / MANNY CHARLTON]
All Revved Up And No Place To Go - Meat Loaf
Who Do You Love - Ronnie Hawkins with The Band
Feed The Cruel - NHC [drummer TAYLOR HAWKINS]
Instant Karma - John Lennon [drummer ALAN WHITE]
Love Is Like A (Heatwave) - Lamont Dozier
Didn't I Blow You Mind This Time - Delfonics (WILLIAM HART / THOM BELL)
Your Good Thing Is About To End - Mabel John
Coal Miner's' Daughter - (excerpt) Loretta Lynn
Honky Talk Girl - (excerpt) Loretta Lynn
The Pill - (excerpt) Loretta Lynn
Lookin' At Country - (excerpt) Loretta Lynn
Whispering Sea - Loretta Lynn
Love Can Build A Bridge - The Judds [NAOMI JUDD]
I'm The One Mama Warned You About - Mickey Gilley
Mountain Music - (excerpt) - Alabma [JEFF COOK]
Lovin' Man - Alabama [JEFF COOK]
If Not For You - (excerpt) Olivia Newton John
I Honestly Love You - (excerpt) Olivia Newton John
Physical - (excerpt) Olivia Newton John
Gimme Some Lovin' (excerpt) Olivia Newton John
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Versace - Migos [TAKEOFF]
The Creator Has A Master Plan - (excerpt) Pharoah Sanders
You Don't Know What Love Is - (excerpt) Pharoah Sanders
Promises - (excerpt) Pharoah Sanders
The In Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Great Balls of Fire - (excerpt) - Jerry Lee Lewis
Whole Lotts Shakin' Going On - (excerpt) - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hang Up My Rock 'n' Roll Shoes - (excerpt) - Jerry Lee Lewis
Toasty winter treats with Earth Eats
From WFIU | Part of the Earth Eats: Specials series | 54:00
A winter holiday special with chestnuts roasting, cookies baking and coffee outside.
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- Toasty winter treats with Earth Eats
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- WFIU
“I love cookies. They’re hands-on,there’s a lot of technique involved in them, they’re really fun and easy to do with kids, they bake quickly,they’re perfect for gift giving any time of year, and they’re great. A winter holiday Earth Eats special with Kayte Young. We drop in on a cookie baking workshop with kids at a food pantry, we enjoy a hot cup of coffee on a chilly bike ride, and we toast up a batch of maple granola for holiday gift giving. All that, plus CHESTNUTS, on this special episode of Earth Eats.
The Christmas Revels: In Celebration Of The Winter Solstice 2022 (Series)
Produced by HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA RADIO PRODUCTIONS
“THE CHRISTMAS REVELS: IN CELEBRATION OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE 2022” is a brand-new, 119-minute or 59-minute musical celebration of the Winter holidays -- Christmas, the Solstice, Jonkonnu, New Year’s and Twelfth Night/Epiphany -- featuring traditional carols, wassails, hymns, spirituals, children’s game-songs, and folk dance-tunes excerpted from live Christmas Revels stage productions presented around the country.
Most recent piece in this series:
A Season's Griot 2022
From WHQR | 59:00
Hosted by acclaimed storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson, A Season's Griot is an annual one-hour special that captures the tales and traditions of African American and African peoples. The show’s poet laureate, Beverly Fields Burnette, and other members of the Season’s Griot family return with familiar and favorite elements of Griot.
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- A Season's Griot 2022
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- WHQR
Hosted by acclaimed storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson, A Season's Griot is an annual one-hour special that captures the tales and traditions of African American and African peoples. The show’s poet laureate, Beverly Fields Burnette, and other members of the Season’s Griot family return with familiar and favorite elements of Griot.
The Imagine Neighborhood Holiday Spectacular!
From CFC Holiday 2022 | 59:00
In this special holiday episode: Huzzah, hooray! It’s Cardboard Boxing Day! The day when everyone in The Imagine Neighborhood uses the empty boxes from their Kwanzaa, Christmas, Yalda, and Hannukah gifts to make fabulous cardboard creations to share with all their friends! With rhymes and good times, the Cardboard Boxing Day Holiday Spectacular is all about generosity, friendship, and giving the greatest gift of all— kindness!
The Imagine Neighborhood is an award-winning kind and kooky story-based podcast for kids aged 4-10 and their families. With engaging characters, exciting adventures, and witty writing that’s as entertaining to children as it is to adults, The Imagine Neighborhood helps families talk about the things that matter with the people that matter most.
Every winter, The Imagine Neighborhood celebrates "Cardboard Boxing Day," an all-inclusive secular holiday where everyone in the Neighborhood uses the empty boxes from their Kwanzaa, Christmas, Yalda, and Hannukah gifts to make fabulous cardboard creations to share with all their friends. Our annual (rhyming!) Cardboard Boxing Day specials are narrated by our host's alter-ego, Cardboard Scotty, and explore themes of kindness, generosity, and empathy wrapped up in goofy gags, plenty of puns, and enough fart jokes to please the most discerning grade-school listener.
The Imagine Neighborhood is an award-winning kind and kooky story-based podcast for kids aged 4-10 and their families. Backed by expert research from the Committee for Children, the show is designed for parents and kids to listen to together—providing social-emotional tools to help families identify and manage big emotions, develop empathy, and solve problems. With engaging characters, exciting adventures, and witty writing that’s entertaining to both children and adults, The Imagine Neighborhood helps families talk about the things that matter with the people that matter most.
A Shortcut Through 2022
From Peter Bochan | Part of the Shortcuts series | 59:58
A retrospective featuring the major events of each passing year, Shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposition of the various elements, including the sounds of hope & turmoil from home & abroad, tributes, music and memories blended into an emotional hour of programming
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- A Shortcut Through 2022
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- Peter Bochan
