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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Favoriting December 20, 2024: I'm dreaming of an acid jazz hands

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
Walter Brennan  Let the Bells Ring Out   Favoriting 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...Back Home  Liberty  1962  Music & Lyrics: Unknown 
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Lorne Greene  Christmas Is A-Comin' (May God Bless You)   Favoriting Have a Happy Holiday  RCA Victor  1965  Music & Lyrics: Traditional 
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frank sinatra  The Christmas Waltz   Favoriting White Christmas/The Christmas Waltz  Capitol Records  1954  Music & Lyrics: Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne 
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Signe Hasso  What Becomes of Christmas   Favoriting Reminscing  His Master’s Voice  1958  Music: Max Showalter Lyrics: Peter Walker 
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mario lanza  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing   Favoriting Lanza Sings Christmas Carols  RCA Victor Red Seal  1959  Music: Felix Mendelssohn Lyrics: Charles Wesley & George Whitefield 
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Johnny Mathis  Christmas Day   Favoriting Give Me Your Love for Christmas  Columbia  1969  Music: Burt Bacharach Lyrics: Hal David 
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Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki  Something New (in the New Year)   Favoriting In This Raggedy Time  Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki  2022  Musi & Lyrics: Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki 
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Adam Kantor, Emily Walton & Aury Krebs  New Year's Eve   Favoriting Darling Grenadine (Studio Cast Recording)  Bandcamp  2022  Music & Lyrics: Daniel Zaitchik 
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Christiane Noll  I Don't Remember Christmas   Favoriting A Broadway Love Story  Varese Sarabande  1998  Music: David Shire Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr. 
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Brian d'Arcy James  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   Favoriting From Christmas Eve to Christmas Morn  Horicon Music  2004  Music: Hugh Martin Lyrics: Ralph Blane 
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Brent Barrett  I'll Be Home for Christmas/A Place Called Home   Favoriting Christmas Mornings  Kritzerland  2009  Music: Walter Kent ("I'll Be Home for Christmas")/Alan Menken ("A Place Called Home") Lyrics: Kim Gannon ("I'll Be Home for Christmas")/Lynn Ahrens ("A Place Called Home") 
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Oil City Symphony Original New York Cast  SLEIGH RIDE   Favoriting Oil City Symphony: The Original Cast Recording  DRG  1998  Music: Leroy Anderson Lyrics: Mitchell Parrish 
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Original Cast of A Christmas Memory  A Tale to Tell   Favoriting A Christmas Memory  C. Michael Perry  2017  Music & Lyrics: C. Michael Perry 
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Floyd Huddleston & His Family Singers  Santa Claus' Christmas Party   Favoriting Happy Birthday, Jesus - A Christmas Musical  Essential Media Group  2010  Music & Lyrics: Floyd Huddleston 
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Metro  Eleven Days from Christmas   Favoriting Metro's Eleven Days from Christmas  Singwell  1976  Music: Traditional Lyrics: Ken Singer & Les Havelock 
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Dancer, Prancer and Nervous  The Happy Reindeer   Favoriting Dancer's Waltz/The Happy Reindeer  Capitol Records  1959  Music & Lyrics: Harold Rustigian & Robert Plaisted 
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Vincent & Pesci  Can You Fix The Way I Talk For Christmas   Favoriting Can You Fix The Way I Talk For Christmas  Mainstream Records  1972  Music & Lyrics: Frank Vincent & Joe Pesci 
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Jonas Kaufmann & Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg  In the Bleak Midwinter   Favoriting It's Christmas  Sony Classical  2020  Music: Gustav Holst Lyrics: Christina Rossetti 
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Lise Davidsen, Norwegian Soloists Choir & the Norwegian Radio Orchestra  o come all ye faithful   Favoriting Christmas from Norway  Decca  2023  Music & Lyrics: Unknown 
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Marilyn Horne, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square & Columbia Symphony Orchestra  Angels We Have Heard On High   Favoriting O Holy Night  Sony Classical  2005  Music & Lyrics: Traditional (translated into English by James Chadwick) 
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Paul Plishka & Marble Collegiate Church Choir  Lo, How a Rose   Favoriting Christmas with Paul Plishka  Naxos  1995  Music & Lyrics: Traditional 
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Bryn Terfel, Nidus Children's Choir & Welsh National Opera Orchestra  I Orwedd Mewn Preseb   Favoriting Carols & Christmas Songs  Deutsche Grammophon  2010  Music: William J. Kirkpatrick Lyrics: Traditional (translated into Welsh by William Nantlais Williams) 
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Luciano Pavarotti & National Philharmonic Orchestra  O Holy Night   Favoriting O Holy Night  Decca  1976  Music: Adolphe Adam Lyrics: Placide Cappeau (translated into English by John Sullivan Dwight) 
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Kimi & Ritz  merry christmas baby   Favoriting merry christmas baby  Epic  1973  Music & Lyrics: Richard O'Brien 
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John Sheridan & the Jim Cullum Jazz Band  Nutcracker Rag   Favoriting Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule - Riverwalk Live Volume 5  Riverwalk, Live from the Landing  1995  Music: Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky 
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Paul Eakins  Jingle Bells   Favoriting Circus Calyope  Paul Eakins' Gay 90s Village  1972  Music: James Lord Pierpont 
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Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera  El Cha Cha Cha De La Navidad   Favoriting Feliz Navidad/El Cha Cha Cha De La Navidad  Seeco  1958  Music & Lyrics: Bobby Collazo, Julio Gutierrez & Osvaldo Estivill   
The Dave Brubeck Quartet  My Favorite Things   Favoriting My Favorite Things  Columbia  1965  Music: Richard Rodgers 
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The Robert Shaw Chorale  Wassail Song/Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly   Favoriting Christmas With Colonel Sanders  Rca  1969  Music: Traditional Lyrics: Traditional ("Wassail Song")/Thomas Oliphant ("Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly") 
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Judy Garland  The Birthday of a King   Favoriting The Birthday of a King/The Star of the East  Decca  1941  Music & Lyrics: William Harold Neidlinger & Francis Fischer Powers   


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
TonyR:

Give the gift of live theater this Holiday!

Theater tickets are a great stocking stuffer.
Avatar 7:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

won't someone give me a PRESS PASS for christmas
Avatar 7:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I keep writing Santa about it and he keeps not delivering, perhaps I need to try a different approach
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Let the Bells Ring Out" by "Walter Brennan"
In my youth it seemed that Walter Brennan's distinctive voice was everywhere.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Dan S:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:02
If I could, I would, but I'm rooting for you, Bronwyn! Merry Christmas to you!
Avatar 🎭 7:05pm
Listener Gregory:

Walter Brennan was a great character actor!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi there Bronwyn and Jazz Handers!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Let the Bells Ring Out" by "Walter Brennan"
More "When Actors Sing." Or try to.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Dan S:

I prefer quirky and wacky when it comes to Holiday music.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
TonyR:

Pretty sure you can't "retransmit" streaming content. You'll spend the Holiday IN JAIL, Miss Bishop!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Dan S:

Take all the fill-ins you can, Bronwyn! It would be like Bronwyn B. does The Clock (a la MOMA).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
TonyR:

Eat Alpo for Christmas, old man.
Avatar 🎭 7:13pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ TonyR @7:08
www.youtube.com...
Avatar 🎭 7:14pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Christmas Is A-Comin' (May God Bless You)" by "Lo...
People under 99 years of age may not know that Lorne Greene starred as the paterfamilias in Bonanza. In fact, that is the only role I ever heard of him playing.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Dan S:

↳ TonyR @7:10
I hope that comment refers to Lorne Greene, not me.
Avatar 🎭 7:17pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "What Becomes of Christmas" by "Signe Hasso"
Today's lesson: How to ask rhetorical questions.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "What Becomes of Christmas" by "Signe Hasso"
I like the way she talked this song.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
TonyR:

↳ Dan S @7:15
Lorne. The poors have no business asking for turkey wings!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
TonyR:

↳ Song: "The Christmas Waltz" by "frank sinatra"
No wonder Frank founded his own label. Sheesh.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" by "mario lanza"
That man could sing.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
TonyR:

↳ TonyR @7:19
I love quotes around Frank's name. Will AI awake and become self-directing via sneer quotes?
Avatar 🎭 7:22pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Christmas Day" by "Johnny Mathis"
This is strangely not in my Bacharach compilation.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
TonyR:

Gonna give you every inch of my love.....
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Dan S:

My personal holiday music ritual is to make sure to listen to Jethro Tull's "Ring Out Solstice Bells" at least once as the solstice comes in. Which is tomorrow! It's not a show tune, so I won't request it here. :-)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
TonyR:

Bah. For stupid Solstice, we're getting a high temp of 26 degrees.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Bronwyn, Show Streamers!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
TonyR:

↳ TonyR @7:25
Won't be cavorting naked around Stonehenge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
doctorjazz:

Went to see Maybe Happy Endings this past week on Broadway, would recommend it if in the area!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Dan S:

I hear "2025" and I want to shout "Incoming! Hit the dirt!"
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
TonyR:

↳ Dan S @7:24
My go-to is the first "Very Special Christmas" benefit album. Annie Lennox!! U2 before they tragically died!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Dan S:

↳ TonyR @7:30
OK, I'll keep that in mind.
Avatar 🎭 7:33pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:26
@doctorj, do you have any favorite holiday jazz albums?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
TonyR:

The original "Partridge Family Christmas Album" came with a giant holiday card in a red envelope tucked in slots in the front cover. Did Shirley Jones actually sing on the PF albums? If so, there's your theater excuse....
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Something New (in the New Year)" by "Anya Turner ...
So Bronwyn, remember that if you do any fill-ins for folks on the broadcast stream, you can't play any songs with f-bombs in them.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Dan S:

↳ Dan S @7:33
I may have applied the above comment to the wrong song. If so, oops, fuck it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:33
Hey-I generally have a very strong dislike for Holiday Music (bah, humbug)! But I do like Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Soul (latin jazz versions of Jewish Holiday Music).
Avatar 🎭 7:39pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:37
The album God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen from 1981 is my favorite by far. Great cuts by Dexter Gordon, Arthur Blythe, and the Heath Brothers. The highlight is a gorgeous solo McCoy Tyner rendition of I'll Be Home for Christmas.
Avatar 🎭 7:40pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:39
Bronwyn takes my comments as indirect commands for what song to play next!
  7:42pm
Dean:

That GRYMG is a good jazz holiday album, as is Wynton's Crescent City Christmas Card.
Avatar 🎭 7:44pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Dean @7:42
I think you mean GRYMJ. GRYMG is God Rest Ye Merry Gregory.
  7:44pm
Dean:

^GRYMJ
  7:45pm
Dean:

OMJ!
Avatar 🎭 7:45pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Dean @7:45
I appreciate the good wishes!
  7:50pm
Dean:

I have that Walter Brennan album and, moreover, I do a pretty good, by which I mean offensive, impersonation of Walter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "SLEIGH RIDE" by "Oil City Symphony Original New Y...
Nice arrangement
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:39
GRYMG is our go-to tree trimming record!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:52
[J]
Avatar 🎭 7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:52
Excellent.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
TonyR:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:52
"Christmas in Jail" is great stuff. Thanks.
Avatar 🎭 7:55pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ TonyR @7:54
You're welcome. It's just too bad that Bronwyn will be there. But she will cheer up all the other inmates.
  7:57pm
Dean:

"Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Eleven Days from Christmas" by "Metro"
Oy vey!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

We reindeer are sped up at a slower rate than chipmunks.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Dan S:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:02
Still, it sounds rather like Alvin & The Chipmunks to me.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
TonyR:

Nervous - the forgotten reindeer.
  8:06pm
Listener Gregory:

“Can you fix the way I talk?” Wow, that is special.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Maulydaft:

I love all of this except "can you fix the way I talk" :D I love the list of things that Porky wants :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:39
I remember God Rest ye merry jazzmen (may even have it in the racks). But, during holiday season, I have very little reason or desire to put on holiday music (it's everywhere), even by fine jazz musicaian, and after season I don't think of it (and have too much other stuff to catch up with (bah, humbug)!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "Can You Fix The Way I Talk For Christmas" by "Vin...
Yes, but it will take more than just your two front teeth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Maulydaft:

↳ doctorjazz @8:08
I agree. This is the only holiday show I will probably listen to. As soon as I hear Xmas music I turn the dial! :P
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
TonyR:

↳ Maulydaft @8:10
"dial"?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Dan S:

Being "popular in Saskatchewan" is not a ticket to fame and fortune.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Maulydaft:

↳ TonyR @8:11
Just me wishing I could listen to WFMU on the radio :) I'm in Canada so just thankful I CAN listen now :)
  8:12pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, no matter where you are going, you will not be hearing Dexter Gordon over the speakers.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Dan S:

↳ Maulydaft @8:12
I'm trying to learn to sing "O Canada" in case I need to run the border and ask for asylum there after Jan. 20th.
Avatar 8:16pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

im learning it for my trip to NEWFOUNDLAND!
Avatar 8:16pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

o newfoundland, our home and newfound land
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Dan S:

I will note that I found two different versions of O Canada. The new one substitutes "True patriot love in all of us command" for the old "True patriot love in all thy sons command." I wonder which one Canadians prefer. Care to chime in, Maulydaft?
  8:21pm
Dean:

Good Christmas/holiday music is transcendent. After all, the very word "music" refers to gods and goddesses, to our religious proclivities. Again I'll recommend Sequentia's "Plebs Domini" on their Aquitania album.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Dan S:

↳ Dean @8:21
If they waited until mid-December to start playing Xmas music in every store and showed more variety in the selections, I'd find it less irritating.
Avatar 🎭 8:25pm
Listener Gregory:

I eventually looked up the authorship of Hark the Herald Angels Sing, because this whole Mendelssohn connection seemed so unlikely. Well, here is what our crowdsourced interweb tells us: 'Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", that is used for the carol today.'
Of course! Gutenberg! Angels! Glory be.
  8:25pm
Dean:

Temple Square, a splendid place for lovers of music. The performances are often free. I heard a resplendant *rehearsal* there by the Univ. of Utah student choir, followed later that evening by the performance. Morton Lauridsen's "Chanson de la Rose," among other works. Yet to be bettered in my experience.

Well, Dan S, it seems your disaffection is with the stores. So it is with mine. But I have yet to hear Sequentia played too early in the year over a store PA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Dan S @8:15
I totally hear what you are saying :) We are also afraid and wondering if we can make a rocket ship in time :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:16
wow amazing! You could stay and put on beautiful productions!
  8:34pm
Robert Grusecki:

Happy holidays from Anya and Robert
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Dan S @8:19
So, possibly the first time I've ever even contemplated the lyrics... because as a kid you just kind of learn the words like another language. Just mouthing sounds LOL. Likely we changed "all thy sons" to "all of us" because of the unneeded gender reference. So you'll probably have more of a chance to get in if you use the modern version .LOL. I personally haven't sung the anthem in about 35 years. :D
  8:35pm
finger of diciassette:

hallo bronwyn and everyone
  8:35pm
Dean:

Michael Praetorius setting. Sublime.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
TonyR:

Welsh carols. The mind reels. Probably takes a moment to sing just "Jingle Bells"
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
TonyR:

Whoever called it "Quicktime" had a mean streak.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Dan S:

↳ Maulydaft @8:35
OK, thanks for all that info. It might come in handy sometime. :)
Avatar 🎭 8:41pm
Listener Gregory:

Charles Brown does a great version of the older blues song, "Merry Christmas, Baby" on a very good Xmas record "Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues." He had a unique style that may not be for everyone, but @doctorj should give it a try. It also includes his song "Please Come Home for Christmas."
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Dan S:

↳ Song: "merry christmas baby" by "Kimi & Ritz"
With the right, ironic video, this song could be a winner.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

↳ Song: "Nutcracker Rag" by "John Sheridan & the Jim Cullu...
I want to see old school animation for this, with maybe Betty Boop dancing to it.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Dan S:

↳ Maulydaft @8:35
Also, it's pretty much the same story for the US national anthem. You sing it as a kid in school without paying much attention. The one thing I like about the song is that it ends with a question, which may be unique among national anthems.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Dan S:

Well, have yourself a merry little Christmas, BB. I won't claim that this holiday music edition of AJH is my favorite format, but you did make it different and engaging. I especially liked the silly songs. This is more holiday music than I would sit through for most other DJs, I'll have you know. :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Bronwyn! Happy holidays to you!
  8:57pm
Dean:

Thank you. Beautiful curation.
  8:58pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks a lot, Bronwyn. I really enjoyed this. Have a great holiday.
  🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Nutcracker Rag" by "John Sheridan & the Jim Cullu...
The Riverwalk is a San Antonio, TX downtown park and commercial zone built in the 30s, expanded for the Hemisphere that was held in San Antonio in 68. Jim Cullum was a Dixieland/swing jazz trumpeter who long played at a club on the riverwalk.
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
diciassette:

Impeccable Christmas selections! Will be replayed as I decorate the Charlie Brown tree. Thank you Brownwyn and happy holidays!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
TonyR:

↳ diciassette @8:58
"I got a rock."
  🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks BB, happy holidays all!
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