Episode 27: Not Your Pagan Ancestors’ Christmas

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

1. Jingle Babies—Jingle Bells
2. Ant-Yul 1
3. Sy Mann at the Moog Synthesizer—Tijuana Christmas—Switched-On Christmas
4. Bongolong—Jesus Christ is Comin’ to Town—A Bongolong Christmas 2004
5. Anti-Yul 2
6. Nelle Villa de Fragene—Can-Can/Jingle Bells—La Dolce Vita Soundtrack
7. Sounds Alumni—Christmas Waltz—Sounds of Christmas
8. Samantha Bee—Seperation of Church and State—The Daily Show
9. Laurel & Hardy—March of the Wooden Toy Soldiers—Babes in Toyland
10. Klezmonauts—Away in the Manger
11. Pagan Solstice
12. La Bottine Souriante—La Cuisiniere
13. Anti-Yul 3
14. Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Midnight Stroll—The Harlem Nutcracker
15. Henry Hall and BBC Dance Group—Does Santa Claus Sleep With his Whiskers Over, or Under, the Sheets?
16. John Stewart—Christmas is Unseemly
17. Akim—Santa Claus is a Black Man
18. Anti-Yul 4
19. Benny Goodman and his Orchestra—Jingle Bells—Santa Claus Blues
20. Aled Jones—Walking in the Air
21. John Stewart—Kwanzaa Gift to Bill—The Daily Show
22. Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Sugar Rum Cherry
23. Scrooge—Thank You Very Much—Scrooge Soundtrack
24. Anti-Yul 5
25. Lenny Dee—Sleigh Ride—Happy Holi-Dee
26. Emmett Otter–When There Ain’t No Hole in the Washtub—Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas
27. Anti-Yul 6
28. Woody Herman and his Orchestra—Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
29. Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang—What Will Santa Claus Say (When he Finds Everybody Swingin’?)—Santa Claus Blues
30. Anti-Yul 7
31. Dave Bergen and the Sultans of Swing—Overture—Harlem Nutcracker

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Episode 26: A Christmas Humdinger!

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

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Episode 25: Thanksgiving: The Atheistic Holiday

Episode 25: Thanksgiving: The Atheistic Holiday!

Playlist

1. It’s the Most Fattening Time of the Year
2. Opening: History of Thanksgiving
3. Hymns on Guitar—We Gather Together
4. Disney Christmas—Over the River and Through the Woods
5. Bewitched—Thanksgiving
6. Cab Calloway—Ev’rybody Eats When they Come to My House
7. Puritan Thanksgiving 1
8. Oliver Twist—Food, Glorious Food
9. Tex Avery—Thanksgiving
10. Rosemary Clooney—Come Ona My House
11. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs—Turkey in the Straw
12. Smothers Brothers—Thanksgiving
13. The Marvellettes—Mashed Potato
14. Jimmy Dean—Please Pass the Biscuits
15. Bart Ruins Thanksgiving
16. Jay & The Techniques—Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
17. Dee-Dee Sharp—Gravy (For my Mashed Potatoes)
18. All in the Family—Thanksgiving
19. Paul Williams—Barbecue—Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
20. Fats Waller—Shortnin’ Bread
21. South Park—Timmy and Mr Gobbles
22. Dinah Shore—Shoo Fly Pie
23. Dean Martin–Mambo Italiano
24. Peggy Hill—Thanksgiving
25. Chiemi Eri with King Orchestra—Come Ona My House
26. Dr Hook—Greasy Grit Gravy
27. The Simpsons Eat Thanksgiving Dinner
28. The Andrews Sisters—Shortnin Bread
29. Old Crow Medicine Show—Chicken Pie
30. Bob Hope—Thanksgiving Relatives
31. Hollyridge Strings—Scarborough Fair
32. Joy Allan Wilsher—Nut Pumpkin
33. Adam Sandler—Thanksgiving Song

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Episode 24: Your Friends Won’t Understand

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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

I got my CDs back from Canada, and I’m passing the savings onto you!

Playlist

1. Jesus Camp—Guilting Children
2. Jean-Jacques Perrey—The Savers
3. April March—Chick Habit—But I’m a Cheerleader
4. Jesus Camp—Victoria Doesn’t Believe in Boys and Girls
5. Mint Royale—From Rusholme with Love
6. James Last—Happy Accordeon
7. Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra—Jacques Cousteau
8. Victoria Dancing for the Flesh
9. Michel Legrand—Alcatraz
10. Wild Man Fischer—Merry-Go-Round
11. Bowling a Strike for the Lord
12. Claude Denjean—Na Na Na Na Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
13. Fantastic Plastic Machine—Electric Lady Land
14. Jesus Camp—Little Bullshit Artist Hates the World
15. Enoch Light—Sunshine Superman
16. Nora Orlandi—A Doppia Faccia
17. Jack Chick—Light of the World Clip 1
18. Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra—House of the Rising Sun
19. Air—Playground Love– The Virgin Suicides
20. Light of the World—The Lake of Fire
21. Jean-Jacques Perrey—E.V.A.
22. Myron Floren—Disco Accordion
23. Hedwig and the Angry Inch—Wicked Little Town—Tommy Gnosis Version
24. Ted Jesus Christ God—Ted Phases
25. Eddie Warner en Zang van The Nelson Boys—Telstar
26. Rod Keith—Hippie Happy Land

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