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Fifteen Days/Songs of Christmas Music Mixtape Draft - Links to final mixes in post #1 (1 Viewer)

3.12---Mrs Rannous TIMED OUT

3.13---John Bender  Timed Out

4.1---John Bender  Skip

4.2---Mrs Rannous  SKIP

4.3 - Servo - OTC

4.4 - Eephus

4.5 - Doug

4.6 - Zilla

 
Our kids are grown so Christmas is a little less magical but the memories remain.  This version was always my daughter's holiday jam and sure enough, she requested it from the back seat on the way home from Grammy's house on Thanksgiving.

4.04  - Nutcracker Suite - Brian Setzer Orchestra - Instrumental

ETA:  @Doug B

 
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4.5 - Doug - OTC

4.6 - Zilla - 

4.7 - Ramsey - skip

4.8 - Ilove80s - skip

4.9 - cos

4.10 - Bruce

 
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Mandatory song leaderboard

5 - Merry Gentlemen

4 - Calling Birds

3 - French Hens

2 - White Christmases, Silent Nights, Coming Santas

1 - Jingle Bells, Red Noses

0 - Mangers

 
Sorry I'm late.  I also was sick, but I seem okay now.  At least none of you oddballs picked my favorite carol.

3.12 Silver Bells - Bing Crosby and Carole Richards  (pop standards)

It's just not Christmas without Bing.  This was the first carol written about modern things like city life.  It was written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who also wrote the theme to the TV show Bonanza.  Listen to those stirring words if you dare.

I love this little fact from Wikipedia:

"Silver Bells" started out as the questionable "Tinkle Bells." Said Ray Evans, "We never thought that tinkle had a double meaning until Jay went home and his first wife said, 'Are you out of your mind? Do you know what the word tinkle is?'" The word is slang for urination.
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OK, it's just wrong that this song is still around. I passed on it myself with my first two picks, positive it wouldn't make it back to me. Then I passed on it again at 3.09, wondering what was up and curious if it would still be there at 4.05. Well, here it is, in the Pop Standards category:

4.05: "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" - Nat 'King' Cole

Silky smooth.

 
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Round 3

I have to get something off that great murderer's Christmas album, so might as well check off a tough category at the same time. 

The Crystals- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. 

Round 4

Like I said, I'm going with classics here. I can almost taste the egg nog and bourbon on this one. 

Burl Ives. A Holly Jolly Christmas. Pop standard 64-present. 

 
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Doug B said:
OK, it's just wrong that this song is still around. I passed on it myself with my first two picks, positive it wouldn't make it back to me. Then I passed on it again at 3.09, wondering what was up and curious if it would still be there at 4.05. Well, here it is, in the Pop Standards category:

4.05: "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" - Nat 'King' Cole

Silky smooth.
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Steal right there

 
I am trying to keep all 15 songs at least moderately up-tempo, and not too disparate in musical style. That rules a lot of stuff out, but I figure we don't get a chance to draft many short and cohesive playlists. 

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
I am trying to keep all 15 songs at least moderately up-tempo, and not too disparate in musical style. That rules a lot of stuff out, but I figure we don't get a chance to draft many short and cohesive playlists. 
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I get this approach.

We have one local terrestrial station that plays Xmas songs from Thanksgiving night through Xmas. They could use a tad more variety, but one thing they do do right is mix up the tempos and styles over the course of a drive-time listen. There are some cool post-1980 rock offerings that they totally ignore, but otherwise the ebb and flow of the selections is pretty solid.

I find myself going for a listening experience like that. Not drafting in any order, either ... ordering will come after the selections.

 
Need categories for the Garfunkel & Oates and Connick songs.

Holly Jolly Xmas is technically a pop standard (written 1962) but I'm OK w/ leaving it in rock era since it wasn't recorded until 1964

 
Doug B said:
OK, it's just wrong that this song is still around. I passed on it myself with my first two picks, positive it wouldn't make it back to me. Then I passed on it again at 3.09, wondering what was up and curious if it would still be there at 4.05. Well, here it is, in the Pop Standards category:

4.05: "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" - Nat 'King' Cole

Silky smooth.
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Smoother than a Norelco shaver skimming down a snowy hill

 
Eephus said:
Need categories for the Garfunkel & Oates and Connick songs.

Holly Jolly Xmas is technically a pop standard (written 1962) but I'm OK w/ leaving it in rock era since it wasn't recorded until 1964
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Cool, didn't realize it was unrecorded for 2 years.

 
I grew up in a house where music was always playing.  What LP to put on during dinner was an important job to whomever had it that night.  December was always Christmas albums, some of which have had tracks drafted here already. 

My parents were also huge fans of Saturday Night Live, and always let me stay up to watch it.  I don't always catch SNL live these days, but my weekend doesn't feel complete unless I've checked in on it.

So I dedicate this selection to Mom And Dad.

Round 4.xx:  

"**** In A Box" by The Lonely Island featuring Justin Timberlake

(novelty song)

I first heard this song and saw the video while visiting my parents for the holidays.  They had gone to bed, my wife had called it a night, my 4-year-old was asleep up against me on the couch like I often was late on Saturday nights as a child.  I wanted to explode in laughter, but I didn't want to wake up the house.  It was like an old-timey cartoon where you couldn't make a sound but you put your hand on a hot plate or stepped in a bear trap.  I did my best to laugh into a pillow when I could no longer hold it in, and after the sketch was over I eased the kid down across the couch and I excused myself to the back patio where I laughed my ### off.  And then went back inside and backed up the DVR to rewatch it several times.

 
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