Another Caligari heard from

Happy Holidays! I'm sure you are just starting to run around doing your holiday shopping. It's our second guest programmer this year and it has nothing to due with the fact that it's Julietta's birthday. (And I don't want to mention anything about haranguing her for several days to get her actual choices.)

Here are her holiday choices:

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)  Mariah Carey -



Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is a song originally recorded by Darlene Love in 1963 that Mariah covered for her 1994 Merry Christmas album. “I really did enjoy Mariah Carey's version, I think she stuck so close to me,” Darlene told Variety in 2020. “I was really surprised, because that has a lower voice than how she sings. But when you have a song that has a great melody, like ‘Christmas, Baby’ does, there's no sense in trying to mess with it. And she has such a great, powerful voice. She did an unbelievable version.”


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.


Underneath the Tree   Kelly Clarksons -



Accompanied by various instrumental sounds, the song prominently incorporates a Phil Spector-like Wall of Sound treatment along with sleigh bells and bell chimes to resonate a holiday atmosphere


Santa Tell Me   Ariana Grande -



This self-penned holiday single finds Ariana Grande singing of feeling let down by Santa as he didn't grant her Christmas wish. She said during a live stream Q&A with Arianators the song is, "sort of about being fed up with Santa because he doesn't necessarily pull through all the time."


Last Christmas   Sabrina Carpenter & Chappell Roan -



There’s nothing in this song about Santa, reindeer, trees, snow, or anything that is typically associate with the holiday. Rather, the song is about a failed romance that just happens to have begun on December 25.


Julietta would like to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy holiday season and a bright New Year.


As always - for an extra added treat, here's a few Christmas songs from Puddles Pity Party



What would Christmas be without our favorite 7 foot tall clown singing Christmas songs -

Demand Euphoria!