Dr. Caligari's cabinet is now so crammed that he had to stow stuff in the Cupboard. Time may wound all heels but once in a while you need a cup of tea.
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we’d sit around the kitchen table – it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top – and sing. – Carol Burnett
Let's make everyone a little happier - tonight's theme is a Uke Xmas
Mele Kalikimaka Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters -
Christmas in Hawaii...in Caldwell! Jake Shimabukuro -
Please Come Home for Christmas Uku Lenny -
Jingle Bells The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain -
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas She & Him -
The Christmas Song Cynthia Lin -
ACME is proud to sponsor the annual U900 Christmas Special featuring Usagi-no U (Rabbit U) and Kuma-no Kulele (Bear 900)
- Nothing says Happy Holidays more that a pair of ukulele playing knitted puppets.
There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile.
A final reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas -
Naked spin-the-dreidel games!
You've probably run out of gifts at this point, wrap your family's fresh laundry as the gift that shows you've done the laundry. At this point, look up a local oil recycler - it will do better for everyone as a biofuel.
And here, I promise, is the last set of songs celebrating Hanukkah -
Hanukkah With Veronica Monica -
Chanukah in Santa Monica GMCLA -
ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to finish out Dave Grohl's Hanukkah offering with his final song of his set
It should be mandatory that we listen to Uncle Lou during the Hanukkah season.
In The Market For A Miracle A Christmas Story -
Kids, this is the essential 11 o'clock number.
Gal Gadot makes Jimmy Fallon eat holiday foods -
Jimmy would have eaten crap on a shingle for her.
SNL Celebrates Hanukkah -
Hey, somebody has to clean up all of that wax on the break front. And somebody's got to call the guys who pick up used cooking oil for bio-fuel.
For the eleventh year in a row, I have be persuaded (forced at gunpoint) by the gentlemen from Bensonhurst to have another Mobbed Up Christmas this year.
(This is not to say that any of these singers are in anyway associated with organized crime.)
It's just that Frankie Lupini, Molluschi Vincenzo, Joey Carrozza, etc, 'requested' these songs.
Merry Christmas Baby Dion -
O Come All Ye Faithful Al Martino-
Baby’s First Christmas Connie Francis -
The Christmas Song Tony Martin -
Do You Hear What I Hear? Bobby Vinton -
Silver Bells Vic Damone -
After many shots and plates of scungilli, baccalà alla vicentina and fried calamari, the boys want to wish everyone Buon Natale and Happy Hanukkah.
Tonight is known as the Festival of the Daughters (Chag haBanot.)
In parts of Northern Africa countries, such as Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, tonight is celebrated as commemoration of Judith's beheading of the General Holofernes (impress your friends with that fact.)
If you can stand it, more Hanukkah songs
I Gotta Feeling Hanukkah The Fountainheads -
Chanukah Lights The Jabberwocks of Brown University -
Kurstin X Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Seven -
Everyone has to play the music of The Clash
Hanukkah with Mayim Bialik -
Spin Dreidel - Dance MonkeyPella Singers -
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Hanukkah B-Shep -
Stop eating all the fried food - no one's looking
It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that. 'Hey lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me!'
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Today's second Holiday Theme is A Dean Martin's Christmas (Dean died on Christmas day in 1995.)
As we mentioned yesterday, Frank wasn't the only member of the Rat Pack to sing carols -
Silent Night -
Halfway through December 1818, the church organ in St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, 11 miles north of Salzburg in what is now Austria, broke (a popular version of the story claims that mice had eaten out the bellows). The curate, 26-year-old Josef Mohr, realized it couldn't be repaired in time to provide music on Christmas Eve. He told his troubles to his friend, a headmaster and amateur composer named Franz Gruber, while giving him as a present a poem he had written two years earlier. Gruber was so taken by the rhythm of the poem that he set it to music, and on Christmas Eve there was music after all. Mohr played his guitar while the pair sang the song. It was the first public performance of Stille Nacht or as we know it Silent Night.
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! -
This was written by the lyricist Sammy Cahn and the Broadway songwriter Jule Styne in 1945. It was first recorded by Vaughn Monroe, and has since become a standard.
A Marshmallow World -
Dean Martin performed this live with pal Frank Sinatra on the Christmas episode of The Dean Martin Show on December 21, 1967. The following year, he sang it again on the show, this time accompanied by a pair of female dancers wearing Santa suit mini-dresses.
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm -
It's not really about Christmas, but there's plenty of winter imagery in this frosty tune, what with the snow snowing and the wind blowing, making it a holiday classic.
Jingle Bells
This was the first song played in space. On December 16, 1965, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford were aboard Gemini 6 when they played this on a harmonica and bells to Mission Control. Both instruments are displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
What the hell I'm starting to feel the bourbon, let's watch an entire episode of The Dean Martin Christmas Show-
The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
It's the Sixth Day of Hanukkah, there are just a few more days to go
At this point you may want to skip the unnecessary calories and just drink the oil - but not too much. Mussolini used to use this as a torture for his political enemies.
Another reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas - Yes, Rivka'le, there is no Santa Claus.
Can I interest you in Hannukah? -
Goyim Friends The LeeVees -
A Hanukkah Pap Smear CBS Cares-
Nothing says I Love You more than the gift of a smear
Dreidel Blue David Ross -
Kurstin X Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Six -
I know you're starting to wish there were more nights for more covers
A Week and a Day Boyz II Menorah -
Remember, so far there has been no barking dog version of I had a Little Dreidel. You might begin thinking about where you are going to store your Hanukkah decorations? (I don't mean to insinuate that you aren't normally observant. Perhaps you proudly display your heirloom menorah in your living room. I can't be everywhere.)
I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
Welcome to our 13th Annual tribute to Ole Blue Eyes - Acme's tip of the hat to The Chairman of the Board.
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! -
This was written by the lyricist Sammy Cahn and the Broadway songwriter Jule Styne in 1945. Although this song is associated with Christmas, there is no mention of the holiday in the lyrics. It's about making the most of a snowy day by spending it with a loved one by the fire.
Christmas Memories -
Christmas Memories is a fairly obscure holiday song written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, and Don Costa in 1975.
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town -
This was written in 1932 by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots. They had trouble convincing anyone to produce it because it was seen as a kids' song, which would have been very hard to sell. The big break came when Eddie Cantor sang it on his radio show in 1934, and the song became an instant hit. Coots was a writer for Cantor's show and pushed for the host to perform it. Cantor was going to pass on the song but was convinced by his wife, Ida, to give it a try.
Mistletoe And Holly -
The song was co-written by Frank Sinatra, Dok Stanford and Hank Sanicola.
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day -
On Christmas day, 1864, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow received word that his son, a soldier in the Civil War, had been wounded. Just two years before, Henry had lost his wife in a fire. As Longfellow sat alone with his grief, he penned words of hope to challenge his own despair. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day was set to music by composer John Baptiste Calkin in 1872.
Have Yourselves A Merry Little Christmas -
Songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine wrote the classic song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for Judy Garland's 1944 movie, Meet Me in St. Louis, along with dozens of other songs for MGM and Broadway musicals.
Acme would like to bring you this 1957 Christmas episode of The Frank Sinatra Show - Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank
The special was filmed in color, although ABC originally broadcast it in black and white. The special was directed by Frank Sinatra himself. He and Bing Crosby team up for several musical numbers celebrating the holiday season. Because Bing Crosby liked to pre-record his music in the morning and lip synch on film and Frank Sinatra preferred to record live in the evening, the musical "duets" were recorded ten hours apart with only soft piano accompaniment. Nelson Riddle overrode the piano with the orchestra during editing.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. .
Another reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas - Betting Hanukkah gelt (money) on candle races.
Impress your friends: The fifth night of Hanukkah is called 'the darkest night', not because it falls on one of the last days of the Hebrew month of Kislev (meaning there is no moon), but because it is the only night of Hanukkah that can NEVER fall on Shabbat.
Kurstin X Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Five
It always good to hear a song from our favorite Nobel Laureate, Robert Allen Zimmerman, during Hanukkah
Eight Candles Yo Lo Tango
Yo La Tengo figured the world could use a few more Hanukkah songs. Especially ones like this.
How The Kvetch Stole Chanukah -
Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy explains Hanukkah -
Chanukah at the North Pole -
I believe that oil fatigue may have already set in. Hold on, you will get through this.
It's our second guest programmer this year and it has nothing to due with the fact that it's Julietta's birthday. (Once again, I did not have to harangue her for several weeks to get her actual choices. I thought I had them after Thanksgiving dinner. I have to tell her that she never sent them to me.)
A Nonsense Christmas Sabrina Carpenter -
The original song Nonsense was first released as a part of the album, emails i can't send, in July of 2022 and later released as a Christmas remix titled A Nonsense Christmas in December of that year. It was written by Sabrina Carpenter, Julian Bunetta and Steph Jones.
Please come home for Christmas Kelly Clarkson -
Charles Brown was a Texas blues musician who 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.
Christmas Tree Farm (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift -
Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm that was run by her parents at their Pine Ridge Farm home in Reading, Pennsylvania. Taylor Swift's childhood job on the Christmas tree farm was "picking the praying mantis pods off of the trees so the bugs wouldn't hatch inside people's houses."
Nice work if you can get it.
Santa, Can't You Hear MeKelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande -
Santa, Can't You Hear Me was written by Kelly Clarkson with Aben Eubanks and produced by Jason Halbert.
Oh Hanukkah Elf Yourself -
Oh Hanukkah is an English version of the Yiddish Oy Chanukah. The English words, while not a translation, are roughly based on the Yiddish.
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 -
ACME wants you to join them in celebrating the holidays with your friends at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour - the official soap of our nation's bald eagles. Remember if your bald eagle's talons are filthy, do we have a soap for you! The holiday season is once again upon us and we are almost in the middle of Hanukkah. Once again, we're sure your home is bursting with the various mishpocha, soiling your hand towels. Why not put The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour on in the background and watch these various Hanukkah songs and videos and let us join you. We will never complain that the brisket is too dry!
Let's see what's on the ole turntable for Hanukkah this evening -
The Chanukah Song Part 3 Adam Sandler -
Illuminating The Maccabeats -
Kurstin x Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Three -
Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin have celebrated the Festive of Lights in the past with a song each night, Grohl says, "decided to celebrate Hanukkah by recording eight songs by eight famous Jewish artists and releasing one song each night of Hanukkah."
Spinning (Like a Dreidel) Jacob Wake Up! -
Weinerville Chanukah Special -
Bet you kids have never seen this one
Heck of a Hanukkah Even Stevens -
The Hanukkah Story The Nanny -
Remember to eat some steamed vegetables or a bran muffin.
December 9, 1965
A Charlie Brown Christmas is the first animated television special based on the popular newspaper comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, and also the first Christmas special for the franchise. Acme is proud to ask you to join us in watching the perennial showing of this depressing little special.
The original broadcast included some brief animated sections which included the logo of Coca-Cola, the show's original sponsor.
These have been edited out of subsequent broadcasts and the video release. Right after the opening title, Linus crashed into a sign advertising Coca-Cola after being tossed by Snoopy.
The closing carol originally included the complete verse (instead of fading out) with a final on-screen "Merry Christmas from your local bottler of Coca-Cola" right after the United Feature Syndicate credit at the end.
A short documentary about the development of the Charlie Brown Christmas special: A Christmas Miracle: The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas -
When they first saw the show, CBS executives were horrified at the idea of an animated Christmas special with such a blatant message. They also strongly objected to the fact that the show had no canned laughter. In addition, they greeted Vince Guaraldi's jazz score as an intrusion in the special that audiences would never accept. However, when CBS learned to their astonishment of the special's spectacular ratings earned on its initial broadcast and the glowing reviews for it, the network promptly contracted the producers for more specials.
A Charlie Brown Christmas Vince Guaraldi Trio -
Producer Lee Mendelson wrote the lyrics for Vince Guaraldi'sChristmas Time is Here music, and his son Glenn, along with his then sixth-grade class, sang the vocals.
Christmas Charlie Brown mashups
In honor of our depressed little pal: Let's all get in the mood and have a depressing Christmas -
Joel the Lump of Coal The Killers- (feat Jimmy Kimmel) -
The Killers teamed up with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for their ninth annual Christmas song benefiting HIV/AIDS awareness brand Product Red. They debuted the heartbreaking tale about a lump of coal named Joel on the December 1, 2014 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
River Joni Mitchell -
At the start of 1970, Joni Mitchell's relationship with her boyfriend Graham Nash was crumbling. On top of this, she was feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the mass adulation her recordings were receiving. The singer needed to get away, so she took off on a trip to Europe, metaphorically skating away on a river to escape the crazy scene. While Mitchell was in Crete, she sent Nash a telegram to tell him their romance was over.
Silent Night/7 O' Clock News Simon & Garfunkel -
The voice of the newscaster is that of Charlie O'Donnell, who was then a radio disc jockey.
Pretty Paper Roy Orbinson -
This was written by Willie Nelson, who at the time was a successful songwriter but relatively unknown performer. It's a Christmas song where the singer goes about preparing for the holiday, but notices an unfortunate homeless person who can't afford the luxuries of the season. Unsure how to handle this, the singer decides he is just too busy and carries on with his preparations.
And what could be the saddest Christmas song written: Christmas Will Break Your Heart -
Christmas, I love you but you're bringing me down.
Before you go - since you're in the mood, let's all get together and listen to William S Burroughs read his Christmas story, The.Junky's Christmas.
Francis Ford Coppola produced this short Claymation film based on William S. Burroughs short story The Junky’s Christmas. The piece was directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel.
