Episode 27: Not Your Pagan Ancestors’ Christmas November 30, 2006
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This week I’ve included clips from a very puritan documentary on the origins of Christmas. Another reason for atheists to celebrate the season!
Playlist
- Jingle Babies—Jingle Bells
- Ant-Yul 1
- Sy Mann at the Moog Synthesizer—Tijuana Christmas—Switched-On Christmas
- Bongolong—Jesus Christ is Comin’ to Town—A Bongolong Christmas 2004
- Anti-Yul 2
- Nelle Villa de Fragene—Can-Can/Jingle Bells—La Dolce Vita Soundtrack
- Sounds Alumni—Christmas Waltz—Sounds of Christmas
- Samantha Bee—Seperation of Church and State—The Daily Show
- Laurel & Hardy—March of the Wooden Toy Soldiers—Babes in Toyland
- Klezmonauts—Away in the Manger
- Pagan Solstice
- La Bottine Souriante—La Cuisiniere
- Anti-Yul 3
- Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Midnight Stroll—The Harlem Nutcracker
- Henry Hall and BBC Dance Group—Does Santa Claus Sleep With his Whiskers Over, or Under, the Sheets?
- John Stewart—Christmas is Unseemly
- Akim—Santa Claus is a Black Man
- Anti-Yul 4
- Benny Goodman and his Orchestra—Jingle Bells—Santa Claus Blues
- Aled Jones—Walking in the Air
- John Stewart—Kwanzaa Gift to Bill—The Daily Show
- Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Sugar Rum Cherry
- Scrooge—Thank You Very Much—Scrooge Soundtrack
- Anti-Yul 5
- Lenny Dee—Sleigh Ride—Happy Holi-Dee
- Emmett Otter–When There Ain’t No Hole in the Washtub—Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas
- Anti-Yul 6
- Woody Herman and his Orchestra—Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
- Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang—What Will Santa Claus Say (When he Finds Everybody Swingin’?)—Santa Claus Blues
- Anti-Yul 7
- Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Overture—Harlem Nutcracker
Episode 26: A Christmas Humdinger! November 25, 2006
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All tunes this week were recorded before the year 1930.
Playlist
Jeremiah 10
Charles D’Almaine with Orchestra—Medley of Old-Time Reels (1905)
Steve Porter with Columbia Quartet—Christmas Morning at Flannigans (1906)
Prince’s Orchestra—On a Christmas Morning (1911)
Elsie Baker—Around the Christmas Tree (1914)
Gilbert Girard—Santa Claus Talks About his Toy Shop (1918)
Olive Kline—Merry Christmas/Sleighing Song
Prince’s Orchestra—Children’s Toy March
Gilbert Girard—Santa Claus Gives Away his Toys
Cal Stewart with Ada Jones and the Peerless Quartet—Christmas Time at Pumpkin Center
Christmas Bells, from 1919
Brunswick Concert Band—Kiddies’ Dance—1920
Harry E Humphrey—Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph—1922
Shannon Quartet—Jingle Bells—1925
Gloria Geer and Company—Santa Claus at the Christmas Party
Haley Fisk—Christmas Message from Haley Fisk (1923)
Brunswick Concert Band—Kiddie Patrol (1920)
Clarence Williams Blues Five with Louis Armstrong—The Santa Claus Blues (1925)
Gloria Geer—The Spirit of Christmas
Shannon Quartet—Will You Love me in December
Victoria Spivey—Christmas Morning Blues
Ozle Ware with Duke Ellington’s Hot Five—Santa Claus Bring My Man Back to Me
Episode 25: Thanksgiving: The Atheistic Holiday November 17, 2006
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Episode 25: Thanksgiving: The Atheistic Holiday!
Playlist
- It’s the Most Fattening Time of the Year
- Opening: History of Thanksgiving
- Hymns on Guitar—We Gather Together
- Disney Christmas—Over the River and Through the Woods
- Bewitched—Thanksgiving
- Cab Calloway—Ev’rybody Eats When they Come to My House
- Puritan Thanksgiving 1
- Oliver Twist—Food, Glorious Food
- Tex Avery—Thanksgiving
- Rosemary Clooney—Come Ona My House
- Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs—Turkey in the Straw
- Smothers Brothers—Thanksgiving
- The Marvellettes—Mashed Potato
- Jimmy Dean—Please Pass the Biscuits
- Bart Ruins Thanksgiving
- Jay & The Techniques—Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
- Dee-Dee Sharp—Gravy (For my Mashed Potatoes)
- All in the Family—Thanksgiving
- Paul Williams—Barbecue—Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
- Fats Waller—Shortnin’ Bread
- South Park—Timmy and Mr Gobbles
- Dinah Shore—Shoo Fly Pie
- Dean Martin–Mambo Italiano
- Peggy Hill—Thanksgiving
- Chiemi Eri with King Orchestra—Come Ona My House
- Dr Hook—Greasy Grit Gravy
- The Simpsons Eat Thanksgiving Dinner
- The Andrews Sisters—Shortnin Bread
- Old Crow Medicine Show—Chicken Pie
- Bob Hope—Thanksgiving Relatives
- Hollyridge Strings—Scarborough Fair
- Joy Allan Wilsher—Nut Pumpkin
- Adam Sandler—Thanksgiving Song
Episode 24: Your Friends Won’t Understand November 10, 2006
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Combustible Edison—Carnival of Souls
Joe Meek and the Blue Men—I Hear a New World
Deceptive 2
Christopher Scott—People Will Say We’re In Love
Stu Phillips—Come with the Gentle People—Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Promises
Jean-Jacques Perrey—Groovy Leprechaun
Unconditional Love
The Lys—The Gem Sweater
Free
Hollyridge Strings—At The Zoo
Herschel Bernardi—Sunrise, Sunset
Time is Running Out
Alberto Bembo–Trops
Time is running out
Ted Weems—Somebody Stole My Gal
Love Bombing
Morton Gould and His Orchestra—The Sheik of Araby
Bingostarr—Our Gang
Confessional
Vincent Bell—Airport Love Theme
Confessional
Soul Rebellion Orchestra—Dolemite
Living Up To Potential
Cless-Extraterrestreally
Children’s Choir of the Institute for Artistic Education—Lenin and the Springtime
Breakdown
Dolly Parton—The Bargain Store
Separate
Leonard Nimoy—Nature Boy
Be Not Unequally Yoked
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Episode 23: Moving Sale November 3, 2006
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I got my CDs back from Canada, and I’m passing the savings onto you!
Playlist
- Jesus Camp—Guilting Children
- Jean-Jacques Perrey—The Savers
- April March—Chick Habit—But I’m a Cheerleader
- Jesus Camp—Victoria Doesn’t Believe in Boys and Girls
- Mint Royale—From Rusholme with Love
- James Last—Happy Accordeon
- Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra—Jacques Cousteau
- Victoria Dancing for the Flesh
- Michel Legrand—Alcatraz
- Wild Man Fischer—Merry-Go-Round
- Bowling a Strike for the Lord
- Claude Denjean—Na Na Na Na Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
- Fantastic Plastic Machine—Electric Lady Land
- Jesus Camp—Little Bullshit Artist Hates the World
- Enoch Light—Sunshine Superman
- Nora Orlandi—A Doppia Faccia
- Jack Chick—Light of the World Clip 1
- Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra—House of the Rising Sun
- Air—Playground Love– The Virgin Suicides
- Light of the World—The Lake of Fire
- Jean-Jacques Perrey—E.V.A.
- Myron Floren—Disco Accordion
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch—Wicked Little Town—Tommy Gnosis Version
- Ted Jesus Christ God—Ted Phases
- Eddie Warner en Zang van The Nelson Boys—Telstar
- Rod Keith—Hippie Happy Land
