{"id":12389,"date":"2023-12-18T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:46:40","slug":"christmas-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/christmas-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get your pre-Christmas week started right, I put together a playlist of seldom played, (mostly) non-traditional Christmas songs to counter all the usual stuff you&#8217;re hearing at the mall, in your car, on TV, and in your offices\/homes. Enjoy roughly 40 minutes of cool Yuletide tunes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Non-Traditional Christmas Playlist\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/1NyTo5z74MWplAmDCsPmLs?si=ec599cf6393a4863&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Main Title&#8221; &#8211; John Debney<br \/>\n2003. M and I sing the &#8220;Bop-bop bop-bop-bop&#8221; line at each other often.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; &#8211; The Ventures<br \/>\n1965. The entire Ventures Christmas album is a treasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Santa Claus&#8221; &#8211; The Moonglows<br \/>\n1953. The background music for the <em>Christmas Vacation<\/em> shopping scene, right before Clark goes blousing, err, browsing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Wish You A Merry Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Booker T. &amp; the M.G.&#8217;s<br \/>\n1966. Right in their classic Venn diagram of soul, jazz, and easy listening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back Door Santa&#8221; &#8211; Clarence Carter.<br \/>\n1969. I think you will recognize the horn lines from this song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Nutcracker Suite&#8221; &#8211; Les Brown and His Band of Renown<br \/>\nThe original version of this was from the late Fifties, this was re-mastered in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday&#8221; &#8211; William Bell<br \/>\n1967. An Irish magazine called this the greatest Christmas song ever. That may be overstating things a little, but it is pretty great, and wildly unappreciated. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever heard it on the radio\/SiriusXM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Get It Together This Christmas&#8221; &#8211; The Harvey Averne Band<br \/>\n1971. &#8220;Up With People&#8221; for Christmas? If you know anything about music history you should be able to pretty easily identify this song as coming from somewhere between 1968 and 1972.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Believe in Christmas&#8221; &#8211; The Sonics<br \/>\n1965. This song is amazing and needs to be at least a minute longer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Child&#8217;s Christmas In Wales&#8221; &#8211; John Cale<br \/>\nWelsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote a piece with this title in 1952. Cale used it as inspiration for this 1973 track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Santa Claus&#8221; &#8211; Nathaniel Mayer<br \/>\n1962. Definitely not your traditional Christmas song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Charlie Parker<br \/>\nAs with many jazz albums, it&#8217;s tough to pin down the date of this original recording. I would guess 1948 based on some light research. This version was released in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joy To The World&#8221; &#8211; The Staple Singers<br \/>\n1962. Just beautiful. Mavis would sing the theme for <em>Christmas Vacation<\/em> 27 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get your pre-Christmas week started right, I put together a playlist of seldom played, (mostly) non-traditional Christmas songs to counter all the usual stuff you&#8217;re hearing at the mall, in your car, on TV, and in your offices\/homes. Enjoy roughly 40 minutes of cool Yuletide tunes. &#8220;Main Title&#8221; &#8211; John Debney 2003. M and I sing the &#8220;Bop-bop bop-bop-bop&#8221; line at each other often. &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; &#8211; The Ventures 1965. The entire Ventures Christmas album is a treasure. &#8220;Hey Santa Claus&#8221; &#8211; The Moonglows 1953. The background music for the Christmas Vacation shopping scene, right before Clark goes blousing, err, browsing. &#8220;We Wish You A Merry Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Booker T. &amp; the M.G.&#8217;s 1966. Right in their classic Venn diagram of soul, jazz, and easy listening. &#8220;Back Door Santa&#8221; &#8211; Clarence Carter. 1969. I think you will recognize the horn lines from this song. &#8220;The Nutcracker Suite&#8221; &#8211; Les Brown and His Band of Renown The original version of this was from the late Fifties, this was re-mastered in 1996. &#8220;Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday&#8221; &#8211; William Bell 1967. An Irish magazine called this the greatest Christmas song ever. That may be overstating things a little, but it is pretty great, and wildly unappreciated. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever heard it on the radio\/SiriusXM. &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get It Together This Christmas&#8221; &#8211; The Harvey Averne Band 1971. &#8220;Up With People&#8221; for Christmas? If you know anything about music history you should be able to pretty easily identify this song as coming from somewhere between 1968 and 1972. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Believe in Christmas&#8221; &#8211; The Sonics 1965. This song is amazing and needs to be at least a minute longer. &#8220;A Child&#8217;s Christmas In Wales&#8221; &#8211; John Cale Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote a piece with this title in 1952. Cale used it as inspiration for this 1973 track. &#8220;Mr. Santa Claus&#8221; &#8211; Nathaniel Mayer 1962. Definitely not your traditional Christmas song. &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Charlie Parker As with many jazz albums, it&#8217;s tough to pin down the date of this original recording. I would guess 1948 based on some light research. This version was released in 1994. &#8220;Joy To The World&#8221; &#8211; The Staple Singers 1962. Just beautiful. Mavis would sing the theme for Christmas Vacation 27 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12399,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}