Have I been a tad parsimonious with me Christmas records this year?
Oh well, you know, what with one thing and another. Plus, I've posted most of my favourites before.
Can I more than make it up to you with this Box.net bandwidth-busting so grab-it-while-you-can complete upload, in two parts, of Peel's Christmas Eve show from 1992?
With his typically eclectic selection of doowop, blues, soul, punk, country, ragga, reggae and avant Christmas choons ?
'Guaranteed Greg Lake free' ?
Well, can I?
John Peel - 'John Peel's Other Christmas Records - Part One' (1992)
John Peel - 'John Peel's Other Christmas Records - Part Two' (1992)
Cheers!
[Tracklistings in Comments - and visible in the Lyrics tab if uploaded to iTunes].
Part One
ReplyDeleteHank Ballard And The Midnighters – Santa Claus Is Coming
Solomon Burke – Presents For Christmas
Shonen Knife – Space Christmas
The Hepsters – Rocking And Rolling With Santa Claus
Black Ace – Santa Claus Blues
Mikey Jarrett And Mikey General – Santa Claus Is Black
Four Lovers – White Christmas
Margo Sylvia And The Tuneweavers – Merry Christmas Baby
Wailers – Christmas Spirit
Cocteau Twins – Frosty The Snowman
[11:30pm news]
Huey Piano Smith – 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Phil Ochs – No Christmas In Kentucky
Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Dont Wanna Fight Tonight)
Champion Jack Dupree – Santa Claus Blues
Moods – Rockin Santa Claus
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – There Aint No Santa Claus On The Evening Train
Amos Milburn – Christmas Comes Once A Year
Oscar Matlolly And His Honeyjumpers – Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
Lynn White – If You Cant Come Home For Christmas
Johnny Preston – I Want A Rock'n' Roll Guitar (part.)
Part Two
Johnny Preston – I Want A Rock 'n' Roll Guitar (cont.)
Lonnie Brooks – Christmas On the Bayou
Wedding Present – Step Into Christmas
Meditation Singers – Blue Christmas
Carla Thomas – Gee Whizz Its Christmas
Director – Christmas Soca
The Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping
Moonglows – Hey Santa Claus
Commander Cody – Daddys Drinking Up Our Christmas
Run DMC – Christmas In Hollis
Turtles – Santa And The Sidewalk Surfer
Plan 9 – Merry Christmas
Freddie King – Christmas Tears
Gary U.S. Bonds – Call Me For Christmas
Carlene Davis – Santa Claus Do You Ever Come To The Ghetto
The Fall – Xmas With Simon
Sonics – Santa Claus
Marcels – Merry Twistmas
Otis Redding – White Christmas
So many thanks for this! - - and for all the other great posts. And yes, I really should be saying this much more often.
ReplyDeleteHave a great one -
Now that is a Christmas present!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. Hope the download times aren't proving too taxing.
ReplyDeleteThis is simply terrific. And it contains my favourite Christmas track of all time (at the moment) Phil Ochs.
ReplyDeleteI saw you put that over at Drew's George - worra happy coincidence
ReplyDelete'96% of monthly bandwidth now gone' folks - if you want this, and why wouldn't you, please grab asap to avoid disappoints x
ReplyDelete...and it's a track to played in this household on Christmas day. Along with The Fall's Hark the herald angels, and many others in a similar vein. Until the other 50% of the household get fed up with Christmas-themed music.
ReplyDeleteGot it all. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteHave fun with it George.
ReplyDelete98% of bandwidth gone now. Keep grabbing folks, I'll try to upload to Mediafire too, the box.net will bust soon and then be offline until Jan 1st (!)
looks like i have grabbed the last of it dave. just got the latest richard hawley today. wow.
ReplyDeletethanks for these great posts dave. and for all the yrs great posts
Too late!!! But will check back in hopes of Mediafire Christmas miracle.
ReplyDeleteMediafire's up. There *is* a Santy Claus G xx
ReplyDeleteanto - thank *you* for poppin in
ReplyDeleteParsi-what?
ReplyDeleteWell done for makin it home davide. Hope the weather didn't waterlog your spirits nor dampen the girls' glitter.
The marking of your departure time in the Visitors Book is heart-wrenching. I know how tough that can be.
I'll see you on the other side, kid.
Love, cheer, and strength.
Dickie
My boxnet went days ago. Christmas is the seasob to download
ReplyDeleteSA - generally I avoid box.net trouble by uploading only very small quantities of unpopular music.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dickie.
PS: Sorry everyone to be using the utterly awful Mediafire with all its rotten pop up ads and so on - I hope you make it through to JP and the music.
ReplyDeleteMade it! Thank you very very much, this will be excellent company for the rest of the Christmas cooking.
ReplyDeleteIt's a real stormy one here, MrH.
Merry Christmas to you and yours x
Happy christmas sir!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you two lovelies too x
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