Gather your family around and listen to some more Hanukkah songs -
The Chanukah Song Part 2 Adam Sandler -
Happy Epic Chanukah -
Arianukah Six13 -
Give You Everything Buzzy Lee -
Happy Joyous Hanukkah The Indigo Girls -
The Rockin’ Dreidel Song Sha Na Na -
It's our second guest programmer this evening and it has nothing to due with the fact that it's SOS' birthday. (And I did not have to harangue her for several weeks to get her actual choices. I actually had them early)
Here are her holiday choices:
All I Want For Christmas Is You Vince Vance & The Valiants -
This was co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, who started off as Whitney Houston's arranger and has co-produced and co-written many of Carey's hits, including One Sweet Day and Hero. He also won a 1999 Grammy award for co-producing Celene Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
This Christmas Donny Hathaway -
Like many Christmas songs, this one took a while to find an audience. Released as a single in 1970, it went nowhere, but later became a modern holiday standard, covered by a wide range of artists including Destiny's Child, Aretha Franklin and Lady Antebellum. Chris Brown is the only artist to chart with the song, reaching #62 in 2007 with his rendition.
O Holy Night Tori Kelly -
This carol has the distinction of being the first song ever to be played live on a radio broadcast. On December 24, 1906 a Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, broadcast one of the first ever AM radio programs, and the first ever to feature entertainment and music for a general audience, from his Brant Rock, Massachusetts station. After playing Handel's Largo on an Ediphone phonograph, he proceeded to play O Holy Night on his violin, singing the last verse as he played. He finished the broadcast by reading various passages from the Gospel of Luke, before wishing his listeners a Merry Christmas.
White Christmas The Drifters -
The song enjoyed a sales resurgence every Christmas after it was first released in 1942. It went to #1 that year in America, and again reached the top spot in 1945 and 1947. The song appeared on various Billboard charts every year until 1963 when it finally dropped off the Hot 100.
Please Comer Home For Christmas The Eagles -
Charles Brown was a Texas Blues musician who first recorded the popular R&B Christmas song Merry Christmas Baby in 1947. Please Come Home For Christmas is a very melancholy Christmas song, as the singer has lost his girl and finds himself unbearably lonely over the holidays. Brown wrote it with Gene Redd, who was a New York producer that went on to guide the career of Kool & the Gang.
There is no reflection on SOS' choices for her favorite holiday songs but today's final holiday special is Really Bad Christmas songs.
I received word from medical authorities that I should avoid posting Leroy The Redneck Reindeer. It would be considered risky given your mental state.
Duly noted.
Same Old Lang Syne Dan Fogelberg -
When Fogelberg started writing this song, he considered it "a joke," essentially laughing at himself as he looked back on the fateful encounter at the convenience store. When he finished the song, he realized it was an important one so he saved it for his album The Innocent Age. It ended up being his best-known song, exemplifying the gentle but very emotional stories his lyrics portrayed.
Back Door Santa Bon Jovi -
The Satire Brewing Company has a dark stout holiday beer called Back Door Santa and I have no comment
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out Fall Out Boy -
Like a lot of Fall Out Boy's music, the song's so emotionally overblown.
Santa Claus is Watchin’ You Ray Stevens –
Remember to be true to you conservative boyfriend or no presents for you
Cherry Cherry Christmas Neil Diamond -
Just say no.
We'll end with our perennial favorite -
What list of cheesy holiday songs would be complete without this wretched dreck concerning a filthy child's odd foot fetish (especially since it centers around his dying mother) - always an uplifting tune.
But I will give Patton Oswald the final word on the subject.
Demand Euphoria!
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