Holiday Radio

[RGMike]

Hoping against hope that channel 32 shows Scrooges' RnR Xmas this year; here's the only clip that I could find on YT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryIroTqs-k

[Tinka Cat]

not radio, technically...

I was in Amoeba this past weekend and they were playing a Ray Charles's Christmas album.  I think it was this one:


http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Christmas-Ray-Charles/dp/B000003432

I'm sure it's a classic and many of you might even have it.  It sounded great.

[RGMike]

Holiday-related, and my Find of the Week: a blog devoted to my all-time-fave Xmas special, Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol:

http://mrmagooschristmascarol.blogspot.com/

Wish I'd been in LA to see it on the big screen! It hasn't been shown on TV in a bunch of years, ever since Cartoon Network let their option lapse.

[RGMike]

Worst new Xmas tunes? Why am I not surprised Coldplay and Train made the list...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/18/DDQ21GRJ1A.DTL

Gotta especially agree on the Train tune: it's quite heinous.

[RGMike]

In the car earlier I heard someone doing a cover of the Pogues' "Fairytale of NY" -- seemed to have been KT Tunstall and... some guy. They changed the word "faggot" to "braggart", BTW.

[sundaygal]

In the car earlier I heard someone doing a cover of the Pogues' "Fairytale of NY" -- seemed to have been KT Tunstall and... some guy. They changed the word "faggot" to "braggart", BTW.

Jeeeez, some songs just shouldn't be covered, period.  Fairytale of New York is one and Happy Xmas (War Is Over) is another.  Oh, and Last Christmas too.  I was gonna say Santa Baby, but I wouldn't mind hearing a Cat Power version of it.