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
