Christmas

Said the night wind to the little lamb, please Christmas don't be late. Yuletide cheer, wondering winterlands and Santaclaustrophobia: music both sacred and secular for the season.  "Merry Christmas, Baby!"

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Jingle Bells New Birth Brass Band A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO

Jingle Bells (Greetings from Esquivel) Esquivel Merry Xmas, Bar/None

What Will Santa Claus Say When He Finds Everybody Swinging? Louis Prima
Yule B' Swingin', Hip-O

Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus George Jones & Tammy Wynette Christmas Party With Eddie G., Columbia/Legacy

Merry Christmas from the Family Robert Earl Keen Gringo Honeymoon, Sugar Hill

Be-Bop Santa Claus Babs Gonzalez Hipster Holiday, Rhino

Santa Claus Is Back In Town Elvis Presley The Complete '50s Masters, RCA

Christmas Morning Detroit Jr. Christmas Party With Eddie G., Columbia/Legacy

Instrumental: Skallelujah Joe Ferry I've Gotcha Covered Vol.2, Shanachie

Happy Christmas Toots & the Maytals Natty & Nice, Rhino

I See Mary and Joseph Joseph Spence Bahamian Guitarist, Arhoolie

Christmas Island Bob Atcher & the Dinning Sisters Christmas Cocktails 2, Capitol

Breaking Up Christmas Norman Edmonds & friends Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder

The Rebel Jesus/Skyline Jig Jackson Browne & the Chieftains The Bells of Dublin, RCA

Instrumental: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Grappelli & Menuhin Very Best of Grappelli & Menuhin, Angel

SEGMENT: Charles Brown

We Free Kings Rahsaan Roland Kirk
We Free Kings, Mercury

Go Tell It On A Mountain Zion Harmonizers
A Creole Christmas, Epic

HOUR TWO

Jingle Bells Hollyridge Strings Christmas Cocktails, Capitol

Swingin' Them Jingle Bells Fats Waller Fractions Fingering - The Early Years, Part 3 - 1936, RCA Victor

(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag Kay Christmas Cocktails, Capitol

Christmas & New Years Blues Tampa Red The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936, RCA

Christmas in Prison John Prine Sweet Revenge, Atlantic

Instrumental: Holiday for Strings Eddie Bush Legends of Ukelele, Rhino

Aguinaldo Jibaro Familia Colon Folkmasters, Folkways

Blue Xmas (To Whom It may Concern) Miles Davis & Bob Dorough Jingle Bell Jazz, Columbia

Christmas Man Blues Chippie Hill When Women Sang the Blues, Arhoolie

You're All I Want for Christmas The Persuasions You're All I Want for Christmas, Bullseye Blues

I Don't Want You Just for Christmas Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas Must Be Santa, Rounder

Instrumental: Dance of the Fairy Plum Martha Argerich & Nicolas Economou The Nutcracker, Deutsche Grammophone

Pretty Paper Willie Nelson Pretty Paper, Columbia

White Christmas Otis Redding Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Atlantic

Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night) Sacred Harp Singers Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Paquito D'Rivera
Jingle Bell Jazz, Columbia

Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Castle

Silent Night Dr. John
Plays Mac Rabennack, Clean Cuts

Eggnog The Twang
Yule Train, Metaphor

End Bed: Conclusion of Mummer's Play
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder

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