As winter closes in, and the holiday season approaches, we discuss the strange ritual of listening to Christmas music for just one month a year.
There’s got to be a German word for this. It’s that feeling, that first second, when you heard Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.
Show notes:
- Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
- Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
- Bruce Springsteen: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Do They Know It’s Christmas
- We Are the World
- Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
- Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa (video)
- The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
- Apple Music Christmas Playlist
- Die Hard
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
- I Wish it Could Be Christmas (article)
- The Kinks: Father Christmas
- Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer: I Believe in Father Christmas
- Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas
- Ghosts of Christmas Past
- Roomful of Blues: Roomful of Christmas
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