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Favoriting December 25, 2021: The 2021 Fool's Paradise Christmas in Quarantine Spectacular!! Featuring Grade "A" Fancy Magazine!!

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Artist Track Label Comments Approx. start time
The Royals  Christmas Party   Favoriting Vagabond    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Surfaris  Santa's Speed Shop   Favoriting Decca    0:05:08 (Pop-up)
Hub Brando and the Dreamers  Eskimo Walk   Favoriting Tear Drop    0:08:05 (Pop-up)
George Nixon  Jingle Bell Twist   Favoriting Elms    0:14:16 (Pop-up)
The Boys The Next Door  The Wildest Christmas   Favoriting Bad    0:16:04 (Pop-up)
Gary Walker  Santa's Got a Brand New Bag   Favoriting Jin    0:18:40 (Pop-up)
Sandy Baron  Swingin' Santa   Favoriting Gulf    0:19:43 (Pop-up)
Buddy Carr  I'm Diggin' Santa Tonight   Favoriting Vinney    0:21:44 (Pop-up)
Brendan Hanlon and the Bat Men  Christmas Party   Favoriting Bat    0:24:18 (Pop-up)
Jim Backus with Daws Butler  I Was A Teenage Reindeer   Favoriting Dico    0:26:05 (Pop-up)
Grade "A" Fancy Magazine Interview!        0:42:20 (Pop-up)
Clyde Lasley & the Cadillac Baby Specials  Santa Came Home Drunk   Favoriting Bea & Baby    0:43:27 (Pop-up)
The Sabers  Cool, Cool Christmas   Favoriting Cal-West    0:44:42 (Pop-up)
Al Green and the Terrifics  Joke On Santa   Favoriting Palm    0:47:14 (Pop-up)
Bobby and Boobie  Cool Cool Christmas   Favoriting Dice    0:50:04 (Pop-up)
The Marquees  Christmas In The Congo   Favoriting Warner Brothers    0:51:59 (Pop-up)
Little Joey  Comin' Down The Chimney #2 (The Mad Side)   Favoriting Fidelity    1:00:11 (Pop-up)
Terminators of Endearment  Stranger in the Manger   Favoriting Subterranean    1:02:14 (Pop-up)
Leappo the Frog  Christmas In Frogville   Favoriting Del-Ray    1:03:00 (Pop-up)
The Weird Beard & Crazy Cajun  Twas a Weird Night Before Xmas   Favoriting Capri    1:06:10 (Pop-up)
Joe P and the J's  I Want To Be A Santa Claus To You   Favoriting Music Manor  A Dave the Spazz discovery!  1:14:05 (Pop-up)
Arnold Dover  Santa Claus Is Doing The Monkey   Favoriting Jovial    1:16:27 (Pop-up)
Debbie and the Darnels  Santa, Teach Me To Dance   Favoriting Vernon    1:18:44 (Pop-up)
Terry Hensey  Christmas A -Go-Go   Favoriting Redwood    1:21:05 (Pop-up)
Bey Ireland  All I Want For Christmas Is A Go-Go Girl   Favoriting Newport    1:23:37 (Pop-up)
Ben Hinds  Christmas Go Go Girl   Favoriting Tracy    1:31:25 (Pop-up)
Sherwin Linton  Santa Got A DWI   Favoriting Breaker    1:32:34 (Pop-up)
Tommy Hester  Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas   Favoriting Luck    1:35:25 (Pop-up)
The Davis Sisters  The Christmas Boogie   Favoriting RCA Victor    1:38:35 (Pop-up)
Lorene Mann  Indian Santa Claus   Favoriting RCA Victor    1:40:55 (Pop-up)
Chris Marshon  Bluest Christmas Ever   Favoriting Phono    1:44:15 (Pop-up)
Patsy Raye and The Beatniks  Beatnick's Wish   Favoriting Roulette  For the "Brez"!  1:51:55 (Pop-up)
The Cashmeres  I Believe in St Nick   Favoriting Laurie    1:54:30 (Pop-up)
Detroit Junior  This Time Last Christmas   Favoriting Foxy    1:56:57 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🌮 1:02pm
winston legthigh:

merry christmas rex and foolios.
Avatar 🌮 1:03pm
Mailman Tom:

Come to think of it, I'm living in a Fool's Paradise!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
Bruce S.:

Stuff your Sox and Unwrap your Box
Rex arriveing in a Sleigh, Fools Paradise on Christmas Day
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
DjLorraine:

!!!!!
  1:04pm
Skyline chili formally kpx:

Nothing says Christmas like kicking a mud hole in your backside and getting it stumped right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Handy Haversack:

Rex! Fools!
  1:04pm
P-90:

This s what happens when Christmas falls on a Saturday
  1:05pm
The Butterman:

Woooo hoooooooo, best part of this day.
  1:05pm
Phat in Lincoln:

Happy Krimble! This Royals track is exactly the right thing.
Avatar 1:05pm
Kitschy Mama:

Merry Xmas Rex! Excited for the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
Handy Haversack:

Do the Raisin People know it's Christmas? Do they even care?
  1:07pm
Andres:

All I want for Christmas is rockin fuzzed out distorted instros!!
  1:07pm
phil.vas1:

Please accept this fool’s blessings to you all
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Bruce S.:

already starting with the Art Music
  1:07pm
Morgan:

🙈
  1:07pm
phat in Lincoln:

Whew, I wondered if that was supposed to do that.
  1:08pm
Morgan:

there was a terrible ceiling fan accident
  1:09pm
P-90:

You get to sit through two explosive, blood-spattered hours until Rex finally defeats the villainous Hans Gruber
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Handy Haversack:

"Now I haf no brow. Ho ho ho."
  1:11pm
brez:

Go, fat man, twist! Merry etc!
  1:11pm
skyline chili:

Merry ReXmas Fools !
  1:11pm
paul:

Merry Christmas from the Kramdens.
Avatar 1:13pm
HyperDose:

Bayonne in the house!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Bruce S.:

I love when Norton takes the old Bowl from under the Ice Box and says Oh Ralph, Alice will love this,great christmas gift!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio):

Merry Xmas folks! Best regards!!!
Avatar 🌮 1:13pm
winston legthigh:

!handy!
Avatar 🌮 1:14pm
winston legthigh:

merry kittenmas
  1:14pm
Morgan:

careful with those holiday cocktails
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Handy Haversack:

winston!

Indeed, I was under a pile of Bugbear for a while there. Cider in the glass. Dog on my feet. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Bruce S.:

Merry Christmas, Handy ,K8, and all Fools
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Handy Haversack:

Wishes for warmth and cheer right back atcha, Bruce S.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Handy Haversack:

JB's Santa's Got a Brand New Bag LP was front and center in the window of the local record store this week.
  1:21pm
P-90:

Good ol’ Sandy Baron
  1:22pm
Biba McLurex:

Start squeezing that grapefruit juice.
  1:22pm
Sylvia's Mother:

Sandy Baron the TV actor/comedian??
Avatar 1:24pm
Kitschy Mama:

Seinfeld's Jack Klompus
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Bruce S.:

Sandy Baron was Jack Klompas on Seinfeld
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Bruce S.:

great minds think alike
  1:25pm
Sylvia's Mother:

And stole the show on "Hey, Landlord!"
  1:25pm
P-90:

Jack’s last name was Klompus?
Avatar 1:25pm
Kitschy Mama:

I guess so!! Merry xmas Bruce!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Bruce S.:

Same to you Kitschy Mama and a Great New Year!
  1:27pm
P-90:

Totally Daws
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Bruce S.:

I have ridden in a Cadillac thousands of times!
  1:28pm
Don F.:

Daws Butlter. Huckleberry Hound.
  1:29pm
The Butterman:

Wife asked Santa for some erba secks timula, which is NO reflection of me- just makes a great gift.
  1:29pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Like Ho Ho Ho!
Avatar 1:30pm
HyperDose:

Hey Butterman!
  1:30pm
The illluminated void:

got my roller skates on for this one!!! merry Christmas
Avatar 1:31pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Alcohol mavens, here's what you'll need for cocktail time, if you want to play along at home:
Here is your shopping list (check it twice):

Tequila – the blanco variety and preferably nothing too smooth

Noilly Prat rouge vermouth – or a similar spicy and quinine-forward red vermouth

Absinthe – we used Vieux Pontarlier

Grapefruit – one

Pineapple juice

Egg – one

Agave syrup

Angostura Bitters

Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
Handy Haversack:

Ready for a cocktail!

Though I am a few ingredients short of that list.
  1:32pm
johnk77:

hammonton nj?
  1:33pm
paul:

Boys Next Door, Indy's own
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
DjLorraine:

Charles Butler Dawson was born in Toledo, OH in Nov 16, 1916
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Paulo AD:

Merry Christmas all :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Richy4619:

merry merry y'all *<|:^) }
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Will the Sound Guy:

Hi Rex and all!!! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
Bruce S.:

Merry Christmas Will, may all your sounds be sweet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
DjLorraine:

I'm your HOLIDAY huckleberry
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you Bruce S, Likewise man!!!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
Bruce S.:

Merry Christmas DJ Lorraine!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:38pm
Handy Haversack:

How much grapefruit was it?
Avatar 1:40pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

One half ounce grapefruit juice
  1:40pm
brez:

For us listening at home: If you don't have the ingredients for Ice Station Reindeer, the Brez recommends that you splash some vodka over ice in a chilled rocks glass and add some Kahlua -- very festive.
  1:41pm
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Here's the full recipe:
ICE STATION REINDEER

Ingredients:
2 oz tequila
1 oz pineapple juice
1/2 oz grapefruit juice
1/2 oz Noilly Prat rouge vermouth (or similar spicy, quinine-heavy, and not too sweet red vermouth)
Barspoon* absinthe
Barspoon agave syrup
1 egg white
A few drops of Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters
Tiny pinch of salt
Garnish:
1. a few drops of Angostura bitters, attractively atop the fluff
2. Grapefruit peel, expressed atop drink and twisted in
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Baja Joe:

Nice. Cheers!
  1:42pm
brez:

Looks delish!
Avatar 1:42pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Handy Haversack:

JJJ, could Angostura or Peychaud's stand in for Jerry Thomas? With any kind of adjustment in amount?
  1:43pm
P-90:

Recipe does look good
  1:43pm
The Butterman:

Hi Hyperdose and everyone else of course
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Handy Haversack:

(And could mezcal stand in for tequila?)
  1:43pm
P-90:

Next year maybe I’ll release my Red Nosed Reindeer cocktail recipe
  1:45pm
P-90:

Mezcal can always sub for tequila
Avatar 1:46pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Handy, go at it, but know that the Jerry Thomas has its own profile. It's kind of heavy on the nutmeg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Handy Haversack:

Then all I need to get is absinthe, pineapple juice, and agave.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Handy Haversack:

Though maybe I'll knock together a couple of large Hemingway daiquiris to get K8 through her Zoom call with her parents ...
Avatar 1:48pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Mezcal gonna be crazy smoky! Who knows, could be great. Here at the lab we spend countless hours calibrating these formulas and you people just want to throw it out the window right away! Oh, well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
DjLorraine:

Bruce S a heart felt thank you
  1:49pm
Biba McLurex:

@handy You could just use the Angostura if that’s what you have.
  1:50pm
paul:

The Al Green?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Biba!

I live in four small rooms, JJJ! There's room for only so many (so many!) bottles!
Avatar 🌮 1:51pm
Mailman Tom:

That Car 54 episode is pretty good!
Avatar 1:52pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Our living room looks like the loading dock at Astor Liquors, Handy. I dig you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
drr:

On the subject of bitters, me and my girlfriend recently *finished* a bottle of Angostura that was a gift from my ex-mother-in-law in 2000. I finished a whole marriage before I finished those bitters.
  1:56pm
paul:

Different Al Green, I reckon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
drr:

In other words, folks, consider whether you're prepared for a long-term investment.
  1:58pm
pottybear:

What are you drunk or something?
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
dave miss:

@Handy I feel you about the daiquiris
Merry Christmas 🎄
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
Bruce S.:

I have a feeling Spazzco Will have a Chritmas Offering
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:59pm
dave miss:

Merry Christmas DRR!!
  2:00pm
Don F.:

Babys sqweeming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Paulo AD:

The two brekfast bloody Mary's did me in
  2:04pm
blee:

Ribbit!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:04pm
Bruce S.:

stranger in the manger
  2:05pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

IQ…dropping…car…swerving off road…
Avatar 2:05pm
Kitschy Mama:

Uff da! You weren’t lying bout those novelty rekkids!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
Handy Haversack:

Cheers, JJJ, dave miss, Rex, Paolo, and all! LARGE daiquiri mixed and raised to no-brow height for you all!
  2:06pm
pottybear:

Less tar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
Handy Haversack:

"New Testament Cigarettes. I smoke them; *He* smokes them."
  2:06pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

fresher
  2:07pm
Don F.:

Ya cain't go wrong. I tell ya!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
Bruce S.:

This is Christmas the way it was meant to be
  2:13pm
brez:

Merry Christ-myth!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:14pm
DjLorraine:

A package from Dave the Spazz!
  2:14pm
Matt Fiveash:

What a beautiful song
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
Dave the Spazz:

Available for tri-state area gigs. Serious inquiries only.
Avatar 2:16pm
Kitschy Mama:

“Joe P” sounds almost as congested as Rex. 😁
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:16pm
Bruce S.:

Dave picks another winner!
Avatar 2:18pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Uh.. who was that supposed to be between Durante and Sullivan?
  2:20pm
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Joe the Bartender
  2:21pm
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Frank Fontaine
Avatar 🌮 2:26pm
Mailman Tom:

Very funny, Lou
Avatar 2:28pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Rex? You okay buddy?
  2:28pm
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Rex better hunt down those readers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Handy Haversack:

Waiting for a frog to get involved.
  2:33pm
Don F.:

I'm taking up the Santa Cause.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
Bruce S.:

Did Beat Happening ever do a chritmas record?
  2:34pm
brez:

Sounds like Santa needs a good lawyer. It was just the rum-laced cookies, honest!!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Bruce S.:

I'm still thinking about that car wash commercial, that was strange,in a good way
  2:41pm
brez:

Santa's been eatin' regular. That's good.
  2:42pm
Kitchenwitch62:

Wait, Santa uses a whip??
Avatar 🌮 2:43pm
Mailman Tom:

What do you mean "we" kemosabe?
Avatar 2:44pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

This one is making me feel a little dizzy.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Merry No Brow Christmas, Rex!
  2:45pm
skyline chili:

Shows almost over, and I'm getting kind of nervous that I'm not going to hear Zat Santa Claus is that you. Louis Armstrong or buster Poindexter version, Either one!
Avatar 2:46pm
Kitschy Mama:

Great music for my xmas drive through South Carolina.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
Bruce S.:

Is she saying Elvis?
  2:47pm
brez:

Christmas has never been the same without Elvis (and James Brown, RIP) and New Year's Eve has never been the same without Guy Lombardo...
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Gaylord Fields:

That Lorene Mann song: To paraphrase that cat in that one Warner Bros. cartoon, now I've heard everything! [takes out revolver, blows brains out]
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Handy Haversack:

Gotta get the kittens their lunch. Thanks, Rex! This really shaves the brow off the holiday -- much needed!

Thanks, JJJ and Karen! I will gather more ingredients!

Later on, Fools. You're all Santa Claus to me.
  2:48pm
Don F.:

I wonder if Hillary Brooke ever put out a Christmas record pining for Costello.
  2:48pm
brez:

Gaylord, you said it!
  2:49pm
brez:

I feel thoroughly Christmased! Thanks Rex, Grade "A" Fancy and all the fools!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:50pm
Gaylord Fields:

Hey, brez: Speaking of Elvis, our Xmas card to you came back to us "return to sender"!
  2:51pm
Phat in Lincoln:

I could probably go for a go-go girl for Christmas.
  2:51pm
brez:

Ahh, thank you--NOW IT'S CHRISTMAS!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
Gaylord Fields:

The Louis DeJoy-approved sorting machine mangled the envelope!
  2:51pm
brez:

OY, G, I haven't moved. Fkn Post Office!
  2:53pm
Don F.:

@Gaylord Fiellds De Joy to the world!
  2:53pm
Mike W.:

Love this on a swell comp called Swing for a Crime
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:53pm
Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you Rex!!!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
Bruce S.:

Gaylord, Happy Celebration of whatever you celebrate and a Happy new year
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
radioronan:

Thanks Rex..until next time..keep swingin' all ye Santas..cheers!
Avatar 2:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...DeJoy to the World...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
RevErie:

thanks Rex! for enhancing my christmas
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Bruce S.:

Thanks Rex,It's Christmas again thanks
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Gaylord Fields:

@Don F.: DeJoy to the world, the mail has not come! @Bruce S.: Back atcha!
  2:58pm
P-90:

Thanks Rex!
  2:59pm
skyline chili:

What do you get when you cross Elvis with an Elf, you get an Elfis
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
DjLorraine:

Merry Christmas Rex. Thanks for the holiday selections.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
dave miss:

Mama! Rex! To drink!
Avatar 3:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

* * * TY Rex * * *
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