What about Ethel Merman's version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas? 🎅
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Flip to Christmas Music
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Star 102 posted on their Facebook page that they're flipping at 7am on Friday, not 8:30 like I predicted. A little bit earlier, but I called it!
Now bears the question: What are they going to launch with? I want to predict that it'll be Mariah, but that seems almost too easy. Taylor Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm" also jumps out as a possibility.
Now bears the question: What are they going to launch with? I want to predict that it'll be Mariah, but that seems almost too easy. Taylor Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm" also jumps out as a possibility.
Fingers crossed for Taylor Swift! Love that song.
If only some station would play some Dr. Dirty [John Valby] or Red Peters Christmas tunes. Maybe just before a format change or station sale. [Granted, it'd probably be a parking lot if you went to visit them the next day.]
I'd laugh if they broke out some of the Bob Rivers tracks. Is "Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear" still an acceptable Christmas song? 🤣
I'd laugh if they broke out some of the Bob Rivers tracks. Is "Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear" still an acceptable Christmas song? 🤣
I would love to here that, but also "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"
I would love to here that, but also "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"
Is it the same as Judy Garland's version? If so, it is a bit depressing if you listen to the lyrics which weren't very merry at all. Sinatra recorded a more upbeat version.
I just listened to the Ethel Merman version and it is the upbeat Sinatra version, not the melancholy Judy Garland version.
Dr. Dirty's stuff is very obscene, at least the one album I heard.
That's putting it lightly. He's a very talented piano player, classically trained, I believe.
WAKR has mentioned it will flip to all-Christmas on Monday. After WDOK on Friday, Akron will have three stations to choose from for Holiday music as of next week.
All these stations with the same holiday tunes repeated ad nauseum. Now give me a novelty/comedy themed playlist and I'd listen....well, maybe not 24/7 but way more than I listen to the regular pablum.
There are two things that stand out for me about today's all-Christmas stations' playlists:
1) Though Christmas is supposed to be a religious (Christian) holiday, most of the songs played are secular.
2) Very few songs by African-american artists are in the mix. I hear very little Nat "King" Cole, and even less Motown and Phil Spector material on the vast majority of these stations.
Of course, since my favorite "current" Christmas song (Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas,") is almost never played either, I suppose it's all Youtube or 181.FM specialty Christmas channels if I really want to hear the music.
1) Though Christmas is supposed to be a religious (Christian) holiday, most of the songs played are secular.
2) Very few songs by African-american artists are in the mix. I hear very little Nat "King" Cole, and even less Motown and Phil Spector material on the vast majority of these stations.
Of course, since my favorite "current" Christmas song (Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas,") is almost never played either, I suppose it's all Youtube or 181.FM specialty Christmas channels if I really want to hear the music.
Looking at WMJI's "Recently Played" list from today (Thurs 11/20) I see more than enough Nat King Cole, Phil Spector Christmas Album content, Jackson 5, etc.
To be fair, I was thinking of KESZ's Christmas playlist when I wrote the comments. While I hadn't listened to WMJI's offerings, I can attest that most of what I've heard elsewhere is quite close to what I'm hearing on KESZ. Of the over-the-air all-Christmas music stations I've heard thus far, I believe (and I've written this elsewhere on this Board as well) that the best appears to be WMPS and what Flinn Broadcasting is playing down in Memphis, TN.
iHeart Christmas Pop has a playlist that seems to only be, like, fifty songs. I think I'll be tuning into the Rock version at work during this holiday season. I would supply my own playlist, but the song volumes vary so wildly from song to song that it's either super quiet ("Mr. Grinch" by Aimee Mann, for instance) or super loud (anything newer), partially because I've been building up my library for most of the last twenty years, and the iTunes ripping mechanics have improved drastically since 2006.
Arguably, I could just put together a Spotify playlist. Maybe I'll do that, if there's a trial of premium that will get me through Christmas.
Arguably, I could just put together a Spotify playlist. Maybe I'll do that, if there's a trial of premium that will get me through Christmas.
CLE Oldies plays "I Believe in Father Christmas"..... flipping the switch day after Thanksgiving. Lots of Xmas standards, including Nat King Cole.
You know who's getting the short end of the stick on the holiday music train? Thanksgiving! I can only think of one song [poem, actually] that is specifically about Thanksgiving and that's "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day". You probably know it better as "Over the River And Through The Wood". There may be other tunes but I'll be damned if I can think of any more off the top of my head.
How about that oldie, but goodie.......... Grandma Got Ran Over By A Turkey.......................................................................
You're forgetting "Alice's Restaurant"