. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Life And The World – December 19, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even during the holiday season, we were never too far away from thinking about oblivion in the 1950s – and sometimes the doses of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Beatles – Christmas 1967 As long as we’re in a celebratory mood, you can’t have Christmas without this one – Christmas Time Is Here Again, from the Beatles Fanclub release of 1967. A word from The Fab Four.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jimmy Smith – baby, it’s cold outside Continuing our celebration of the season with a word from the immortal Jimmy Smith and a track from his 1964 album Christmas Cookin’. The venerable standard Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Cool Yule just keeps on
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 15 Happy Holiday A word from Peggy Lee tonight. From her 1965 Happy Holiday album for Capitol Records, a track featuring the band of Sid Feller and a swinging rendition of, what else? Happy Holiday. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Jumping into
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ramsey Lewis Trio – Merry Christmas Baby Continuing in our “Cool Yule” vein tonight with a contribution from The Ramsey Lewis Trio and a track from their 1961 album The Sounds Of Christmas. The immortal Merry Christmas Baby, as done in inimitable
Click on the link here for Audio Player: kenny drew trio – season’s greetings – 05 – away in a manger I will go out on a limb tonight and say, even though there are no notes anywhere to claim otherwise, this album could not have been recorded in 1996, since
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Balancing Act – Green Pants and Finance – 1987 Roaring on with our non-Traditional week of Christmas Tunes. The Balancing Act were one of those under appreciated and under-noticed bands of the late 1980s that got slightly overlooked by their then-label. Happily
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Timbuk 3 – All I Want For Christmas – 1987 Continuing our romp through non-traditional Christmas tunes, here is Timbuk 3’s contribution; All I Want For Christmas. Less domestic mayhem-oriented than last nights entry, it still carries that message of anti-conspicuous consumerism,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Wall of Voodoo – Shouldn’t Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas – 1987 Continuing our Ode to Christmas (and the decided lack of Traditional Xmas tunes), here is the infamous Wall Of Voodoo and a track they recorded for a promo-only
