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HANNUKAH / SOLSTICE

Light the menorah, deck the halls, and dance naked around your own private Stonehenge! Celebrate Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and the Christmas season.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Let It Snow George Shearing
    Christmas With the George Shearing Quintet, Telarc
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Mildred Baily/Red Norvo
    Christmas in New Orleans, Laserlight
  • Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
    Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino
  • Hanukkah Dance Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin' - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • A Heimisher Bulgar (A Homey Bulgar) Sam Musiker and his Orchestra
    Klezmer Pioneers, Rounder
  • Makin' Whoopee The Barry Sisters
    Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA
  • Hava Nagila Uri Caine
    The Jewish Alternative Movement - A Guide For the Perplexed, Knitting Factory
  • Instrumental: Hora Attik Paradox Trio
    The Jewish Alternative Movement, Knitting Factory
  • The Christians & the Pagans Dar Williams
    Mortal City, Razor & Tie
  • The Christian Life The Louvin Brothers
    Satan is Real, Capitol
  • Kneebone Bend The McIntosh County Shouters
    Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia, Folkways
  • Leaning On the Everlasting Arms Fontella Bass
    Gospel Live from Mountain Stage, Blue Plate
  • Instrumental: Ding Dong Merrily Baltimore Consort
    Bright Day Star, Dorian
  • Paddy LeBlanc's Set Natalie McMaster
    No Boundaries, WEA
  • Acadian Driftwood The Band
    Northern Lights - Southern Cross, Capitol
  • J'étais Au Bal Eddie LeJeune
    Le Trio Cadien, Rounder
  • Sagittarius Mary Lou Williams
    Zodiac Suite, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Snowfall Esquivel
    Merry Xmas, Bar/None

HOUR two

  • Santa Claus is Coming To Town Jimmy McGriff
    Christmas Cocktails, Capitol
  • Zat You Santa Claus Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong & Friends -What A Wonderful Christmas, Hip-O
  • Santa Claus is Skating to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
    Natty and Nice, Rhino
  • Santa Baby Eartha Kitt
    Louis Armstrong & Friends - What A Wonderful Christmas, Hip-O
  • Back Door Santa Clarence Carter
    This is Clarence Carter/Testifyin', Koch
  • Rudolph, The Red- Nosed Reindeer Mambo Billy May
    Christmas Cocktails, Capitol
  • Run Rudolph Run Chuck Berry
    Yuletide Soiree, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Sleigh Ride The Ventures
    Yuletide Soiree, Rhino
  • Rank Stranger Ralph Stanley & Tom Hall
    Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Freeland
  • Going Home Luna
    Bewitched, Elektra
  • Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love
    A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, ABKCO
  • Merry Christmas Baby Southern Culture on the Skids
    CD single, DGC
  • Merry Christmas Baby Lionel Hampton
    Yule B Swingin, Hip-O
  • Instrumental: Santa Claus is Coming to Town Bill Evans
    Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve
  • Christmas Ball Blues Leon Redbone
    Christmas Island, BMG
  • At the Christmas Ball Bessie Smith
    The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy
  • River Joni Mitchell
    Blue, Reprise
  • Greensleeves John Coltrane
    The Best of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse
  • End Bed: What Child is This David Grisman
    Must Be Santa, Rounder

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