WFMU: Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from December 21, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:00am chresti: Hi cricket and errbody!
	9:01am TDK60: Good morning, deejay C.
	9:02am wenzo: Yay leadbelly!
	♥ 9:02am StringOFperils: Oooh. I like this Victorian colour scheme. Good morning Cricket.
	♥ 9:02am he's Crafty: hi Cricket, hi folks
	♥ 9:04am tom tom the pipers son: good morning...the color scheme reminds me of pocket billiards especially the green felt....greetings crickets...people
	9:06am cricket: good morning, everybody! color scheme is a work in progress haha
	♥ 9:07am newton: Good morning Cricket
	♥ 9:07am newton: I like the colors
	♥ 9:08am melinda: good morning cricket and chums!
	♥ 9:08am melinda: colors look good
	9:09am Bonnie Prince Jamie: Howdy cricket and cricketeers.
	♥ 9:10am Brian in UK: Hello Cricket & those looking forward & backward at the same time. Colours are cool.
	9:10am robotashley: Good morning!
	♥ 9:11am fred: Greetings cricket and cricketeers
	9:12am wenzo: What was that last song?
	9:12am Luigi Mangione: I love Christmas !!
	♥ 9:13am StringOFperils: ↳ wenzo @9:12 Sounded like some more Leadbelly
	♥ 9:14am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @9:10 May Janus look kindly on you (despite his extreme variant of strabismus)
	9:15am Sarah: This clave rhythm gets me
	9:18am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Cricket and Everyone.
	9:20am west village idiot: yes sounds great
	♥ 9:21am fred: @tom tom the pipers son: there's a Mallet-Stevens street in Paris (it has 4 or 5 of his buildings), I'd sometime go there while in college. Le Corbusier built one there, I don't think it's a coincidence
	♥ 9:41am Franco Twinkie: Good Morning Cricket.
	♥ 9:44am StringOFperils: Franco. It's minus 10 C here, minus 18 with the wind chill. The little far sparrows outside look cold.
	♥ 9:44am StringOFperils: *fat sparrows.....too cold to type ha ha
	♥ 9:47am Handy Haversack: Morning, cricket, cricketeers, everybody. A well-earned lie-in on this the first full day of the Twelve Days of Nothing.
	♥ 9:48am Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @9:44 Oh man! That's horrible (I think) It's in the mid-forties over here right now. It's promises to be in the mid-seventies later, I'm sorry I had to tell you that.
	♥ 9:49am coelacanth∅: good morning cricket, stridulaters
	♥ 9:50am StringOFperils: I revel in this unavoidable reality. I thought you'd appreciate the weirdness of numbers that low. Surf is definitely NOT up around here.
	♥ 9:52am Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 Let's not talk about reality today. Agreed?
	♥ 9:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 We got actual snow! Not a ton -- maybe an inch and a half. But still! More than we've had in like three years! The dog seemed to enjoy his first experience of it.
	♥ 9:54am Franco Twinkie: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:53 What is this snow you talk of?
	9:54am Don in Tampere: Hi Cricket and listeners! Tuning in for a brief listen between workout and heading to pre-Christmas sauna with my friend as soon as she arrives.
	9:54am Don in Tampere: Cricket, I managed to answer your mail just now.
	9:55am yippie: Hi I’ve been listening to some John Jacob Niles christmas 78s on disc records
	♥ 9:56am common: good morn
	♥ 9:57am coelacanth∅: it's white here. slight and steady for ~24 hours, probably <2". had to brush/scrape "my" car twice and will have to today. i Love it. it's not that cold, ~25ºf.
	♥ 9:58am fred: ↳ Franco Twinkie @9:54 It's slowly falling, not unlike wildfire ash, but white (at first) and with more water in it (other stuff too, especially in NJ)
	9:59am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The 1913 Massacre" by "Rick & Lorraine Lee" Thanks Cricket for this version of Woody Guthrie's "1913." I've never heard this version before. I never thought of this as a Christmas song; have thought of it as a labor protest song. But I suppose it is an Xmas song in one way.
	♥ 10:00am steveo: my kid, a freshman in high school, gob bless im is out sledding but i'm inside where it's warm and dry and cozy
	♥ 10:00am chresti: The coldest it's been here is in the 30s F, years ago..
	10:04am ?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
	10:06am ?: Western Federation of Miners Union = WFMU
	10:07am D. Belle: Thats the first i heard about will hart. OTC made a big impact on me as a teen. He had such mystique!
	10:08am TDK60: Cricket. Yes, a real event in Calumet, Michigan. I first heard the song on the live album from a 1968 Guthrie tribute concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC. (The LP from '72.) It was by Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Woody's son Arlo did it on his 1972 album "Hobo's Lullaby." I believe there are several versions recorded.
	♥ 10:18am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Children Go Where I Send Thee" by "Jean Ritchie" Hey, same in English!
	10:28am cricket: thank you so much "?" & TDK60 for the background info on "The 1913 Massacre." the piece is even more touching now that i've read up on its inspiration + legacy a bit further (as i really should have done before coming in today!)
	10:29am TDK60: ↳ cricket @10:28 You're welcome, Cricket. In my opinion, Elliott's version from that '68 concert is the most moving I've heard.
	10:30am cricket: ↳ D. Belle @10:07 i completely agree, he was a hugely inspirational soul. meant a ton to me in my youth, as well. he'll always be missed
	10:30am annette: so much classier than those overplayed holiday tunes killed on the radio. THANK YOU
	♥ 10:31am chresti: Block pudding..
	♥ 10:39am steveo: fantastic show; also i tried to download your wav file but it just sounded like random bits
	10:40am cricket: ↳ Song: "They Dont Know Its Christmas" by "James Ferraro" see also: James Ferraro - "Motel Christmas" (from his creepy ultra lo-fi hypnagogic pop phase)
	10:40am Bonnie Prince Jamie: Ooh thanks for reminding me of James Ferraro, I didn’t know he’d done a Christmas record. Far Side Virtual is a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned
	♥ 10:42am melinda: This has been a really nice collection of trad/not-trad, jolly and somber songs.
	10:42am annette: our snow is falling in tune
	♥ 10:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Greensleeves" by "Kevin Roth" I played this on the dulcimer as a child. I wasn't very good, though.
	♥ 10:47am Robini: G'morning Cricket and listeners. I don't often log-in but listen regularly. Wanted to wish you Happy holidays and tell you how much I love your program. Your commentaries and info, in-between sets is so interesting, love it.
	♥ 10:49am Robini: ↳ Song: "Greensleeves" by "Kevin Roth" Jeff Beck's version of Greensleeves, on the Truth LP is one of my favorites.
	10:49am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head" by "John Jacob Niles" Niles was one of kind, for sure.
	10:52am hendrix wolfbat: Loving your show. Gonna be a download fot sure!
	♥ 10:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks, cricket!
	10:53am annette: in my hometown of scranton, pa. John Mitchell, active organizer of miners union interred there. i always give him blessings. downtown great monument
	♥ 10:54am newton: Thanks Cricket! Happy Holidays to you!
	♥ 10:55am Brian in UK: Nice work, Cricket.
	10:57am TDK60: Thanks, Cricket. Have a merry Solstice if possible and desired.
	10:57am cricket: won't have time for my intended closer - bonus listening, if you've got a moment: www.youtube.com...
	10:58am cricket: about to log out, clean up, & skedaddle - thanks so much for joining me today, everybody! hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, whether you partake in the traditional festivities or otherwise
	🪕 ♥ 10:59am listener 126464: Thank you, cricket.
	♥ 11:01am chresti: Thanks cricket!
	♥ 11:21am coelacanth∅: Thanks cricket
	♥ 11:48am Steve Del Sol: Always a favorite in this family!!

Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from December 21, 2024

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December 21, 2024: Bring That Rapturous Moment (Everybody’s Christmas Songs)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Lead Belly	Christmas is a-Coming "Christmas is a-Coming" by "Lead Belly"	Death May Be Your Christmas Gift	Death is Not the End	2015	https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/death-may-be-your-christmas-gift; recorded c. 1945		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Seeger Sisters	Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow	American Folk Songs for Christmas	Folkways Records	1957			0:00:57 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens	Mysteries of the Christmas Mist	Silver & Gold	Asthmattic Kitty	2012	originally recorded Dec 2007		0:02:15 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens	The Midnight Clear	Silver & Gold	Asthmattic Kitty	2012	originally recorded Dec 2006		0:04:21 (Pop-up)
Lil McClintock	Don't Think I'm Santa Claus	Death May Be Your Christmas Gift	Death is Not the End	2015	https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/death-may-be-your-christmas-gift; originally released by Columbia in 1930		0:07:17 (Pop-up)
Fresh Creek Dance Band	Mama, Bake a Johnny Cake, Christmas Coming	Music of the Bahamas, Vol. 3: Instrumental Music from the Bahamas Islands	Folkways Records	1959	recorded by Samuel B. Charters in Andros on Aug 2, 1959		0:10:15 (Pop-up)
Mabel Race	Our Christmas Presents	A Yorkshire Christmas	Witchwood Media	2005	"Recorded in December 1980 at Crathorne Hall, Crathorne, North Yorkshire, for a Christmas Radio Programme"		0:14:51 (Pop-up)
Andrew Rowan Summers	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	Christmas Carols	Folkways Records	1956			0:15:50 (Pop-up)

Mike, Peggy, & Penny Seeger	Cradle Hymn	American Folk Songs for Christmas	Rounder Records	1989			0:33:17 (Pop-up)
The Dixon Brothers	A Mother, A Father, A Baby	Death May Be Your Christmas Gift	Death is Not the End	2015	https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/death-may-be-your-christmas-gift; recorded sometime between between February 12, 1936 & September 25, 1938		0:36:38 (Pop-up)
The Aislers Set	The Snow Doesn't Fall	A Christmas Gift from Fortuna Pop!	Fortuna Pop!	2000			0:39:45 (Pop-up)
Peter Bellamy	A-Roving On a Winter's Night	Both Sides Then	Topic	1979	Roud 3601		0:42:36 (Pop-up)
Chris Watson	Winter (excerpt) "Winter (excerpt)" by "Chris Watson"	In St Cuthbert's Time	Touch	2013	album represents Watson's attempt to imagine a "7th Century Soundscape of Lindisfarne"		0:45:51 (Pop-up)
Tor Lundvall	Snowy Morning "Snowy Morning" by "Tor Lundvall"	Yule	Strange Fortune	2006			0:48:04 (Pop-up)
Norman Benson	On Christmas Eve "On Christmas Eve" by "Norman Benson"	A Yorkshire Christmas	Witchwood Media	2005	"Recorded in December 1980 at Crathorne Hall, Crathorne, North Yorkshire, for a Christmas Radio Programme"		0:49:11 (Pop-up)
The Olivia Tremor Control	Christmas with William S.	Singles and Beyond	Emperor Norton	2000			0:50:12 (Pop-up)
Daniel Johnston	Christmas in the Loony Bin	Merry Christmas	Stress Records	1988			0:52:54 (Pop-up)
Rick & Lorraine Lee	The 1913 Massacre	Living in the Trees	Folk-Legacy Records	1975			0:55:52 (Pop-up)

Ruth Johnson Olson & Alice Johnson Carlson	Julen Är Inne (Christmas is Here)	Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946	Dust-to-Digital	2015			1:14:05 (Pop-up)
Ernst Wolff	Vom Himmel Hoch Do Komm Ich Her	German Christmas Songs	Folkways Records	1956			1:15:01 (Pop-up)
Jean Ritchie	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Carols of All Seasons	Tradition Records	1959			1:16:38 (Pop-up)
John Fahey	Christ's Saints of God Fantasy	The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album	Takoma	1968			1:19:09 (Pop-up)
Norman Benson	Christmas Shops "Christmas Shops" by "Norman Benson"	A Yorkshire Christmas	Witchwood Media	2005	"Recorded in December 1980 at Crathorne Hall, Crathorne, North Yorkshire, for a Christmas Radio Programme"		1:28:49 (Pop-up)
Maddox Brothers & Rose	Jingle Bells	Where Will You Be on Christmas Day?	Dust-to-Digital	2004	originally recorded c. 1951		1:30:28 (Pop-up)
Roger Miller	Old Toy Trains "Old Toy Trains" by "Roger Miller"	Old Toy Trains	Smash Records	1967			1:32:45 (Pop-up)
The Seeger Sisters	Jesus Born in Bethlehem	American Folk Songs for Christmas	Folkways Records	1957			1:34:30 (Pop-up)
Animal Collective	Bleak Midwinter	Bleak Midwinter	self-released	2018	originally recorded c. 2001		1:35:34 (Pop-up)
James Ferraro	They Dont Know Its Christmas	They Dont Know Its Christmas	self-released	2021	https://jjamesferraro.bandcamp.com/album/they-dont-know-its-christmas		1:37:43 (Pop-up)
Mabel Race	Father Christmas "Father Christmas" by "Mabel Race"	A Yorkshire Christmas	Witchwood Media	2005	"Recorded in December 1980 at Crathorne Hall, Crathorne, North Yorkshire, for a Christmas Radio Programme"		1:40:56 (Pop-up)
Kevin Roth	Greensleeves "Greensleeves" by "Kevin Roth"	Sings and Plays Dulcimer	Folkways Records	1975			1:43:23 (Pop-up)
John Jacob Niles	Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head	Sings Folk Songs of Christmas, Vol. 2	Camden	1955			1:45:06 (Pop-up)

The Exiles	Thank Christ for Christmas	Freedom, Come All Ye	Topic Records	1966			1:52:03 (Pop-up)
Armbruster	Arthur McBride "Arthur McBride" by "Armbruster"	Arthur McBride (Live)	self-released	2024	https://armbruster.bandcamp.com/track/arthur-mcbride-live; Roud 2355	*	1:55:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:00am chresti: Hi cricket and errbody!
	9:01am TDK60: Good morning, deejay C.
	9:02am wenzo: Yay leadbelly!
	♥ 9:02am StringOFperils: Oooh. I like this Victorian colour scheme. Good morning Cricket.
	♥ 9:02am he's Crafty: hi Cricket, hi folks
	♥ 9:04am tom tom the pipers son: good morning...the color scheme reminds me of pocket billiards especially the green felt....greetings crickets...people
	9:06am cricket: good morning, everybody! color scheme is a work in progress haha
	♥ 9:07am newton: Good morning Cricket
	♥ 9:07am newton: I like the colors
	♥ 9:08am melinda: good morning cricket and chums!
	♥ 9:08am melinda: colors look good
	9:09am Bonnie Prince Jamie: Howdy cricket and cricketeers.
	♥ 9:10am Brian in UK: Hello Cricket & those looking forward & backward at the same time. Colours are cool.
	9:10am robotashley: Good morning!
	♥ 9:11am fred: Greetings cricket and cricketeers
	9:12am wenzo: What was that last song?
	9:12am Luigi Mangione: I love Christmas !!
	♥ 9:13am StringOFperils: ↳ wenzo @9:12 Sounded like some more Leadbelly
	♥ 9:14am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @9:10 May Janus look kindly on you (despite his extreme variant of strabismus)
	9:15am Sarah: This clave rhythm gets me
	9:18am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Cricket and Everyone.
	9:20am west village idiot: yes sounds great
	♥ 9:21am fred: @tom tom the pipers son: there's a Mallet-Stevens street in Paris (it has 4 or 5 of his buildings), I'd sometime go there while in college. Le Corbusier built one there, I don't think it's a coincidence
	♥ 9:41am Franco Twinkie: Good Morning Cricket.
	♥ 9:44am StringOFperils: Franco. It's minus 10 C here, minus 18 with the wind chill. The little far sparrows outside look cold.
	♥ 9:44am StringOFperils: *fat sparrows.....too cold to type ha ha
	♥ 9:47am Handy Haversack: Morning, cricket, cricketeers, everybody. A well-earned lie-in on this the first full day of the Twelve Days of Nothing.
	♥ 9:48am Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @9:44 Oh man! That's horrible (I think) It's in the mid-forties over here right now. It's promises to be in the mid-seventies later, I'm sorry I had to tell you that.
	♥ 9:49am coelacanth∅: good morning cricket, stridulaters
	♥ 9:50am StringOFperils: I revel in this unavoidable reality. I thought you'd appreciate the weirdness of numbers that low. Surf is definitely NOT up around here.
	♥ 9:52am Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 Let's not talk about reality today. Agreed?
	♥ 9:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 We got actual snow! Not a ton -- maybe an inch and a half. But still! More than we've had in like three years! The dog seemed to enjoy his first experience of it.
	♥ 9:54am Franco Twinkie: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:53 What is this snow you talk of?
	9:54am Don in Tampere: Hi Cricket and listeners! Tuning in for a brief listen between workout and heading to pre-Christmas sauna with my friend as soon as she arrives.
	9:54am Don in Tampere: Cricket, I managed to answer your mail just now.
	9:55am yippie: Hi I’ve been listening to some John Jacob Niles christmas 78s on disc records
	♥ 9:56am common: good morn
	♥ 9:57am coelacanth∅: it's white here. slight and steady for ~24 hours, probably <2". had to brush/scrape "my" car twice and will have to today. i Love it. it's not that cold, ~25ºf.
	♥ 9:58am fred: ↳ Franco Twinkie @9:54 It's slowly falling, not unlike wildfire ash, but white (at first) and with more water in it (other stuff too, especially in NJ)
	9:59am TDK60: ↳ Song: "The 1913 Massacre" by "Rick & Lorraine Lee" Thanks Cricket for this version of Woody Guthrie's "1913." I've never heard this version before. I never thought of this as a Christmas song; have thought of it as a labor protest song. But I suppose it is an Xmas song in one way.
	♥ 10:00am steveo: my kid, a freshman in high school, gob bless im is out sledding but i'm inside where it's warm and dry and cozy
	♥ 10:00am chresti: The coldest it's been here is in the 30s F, years ago..
	10:04am ?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
	10:06am ?: Western Federation of Miners Union = WFMU
	10:07am D. Belle: Thats the first i heard about will hart. OTC made a big impact on me as a teen. He had such mystique!
	10:08am TDK60: Cricket. Yes, a real event in Calumet, Michigan. I first heard the song on the live album from a 1968 Guthrie tribute concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC. (The LP from '72.) It was by Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Woody's son Arlo did it on his 1972 album "Hobo's Lullaby." I believe there are several versions recorded.
	♥ 10:18am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Children Go Where I Send Thee" by "Jean Ritchie" Hey, same in English!
	10:28am cricket: thank you so much "?" & TDK60 for the background info on "The 1913 Massacre." the piece is even more touching now that i've read up on its inspiration + legacy a bit further (as i really should have done before coming in today!)
	10:29am TDK60: ↳ cricket @10:28 You're welcome, Cricket. In my opinion, Elliott's version from that '68 concert is the most moving I've heard.
	10:30am cricket: ↳ D. Belle @10:07 i completely agree, he was a hugely inspirational soul. meant a ton to me in my youth, as well. he'll always be missed
	10:30am annette: so much classier than those overplayed holiday tunes killed on the radio. THANK YOU
	♥ 10:31am chresti: Block pudding..
	♥ 10:39am steveo: fantastic show; also i tried to download your wav file but it just sounded like random bits
	10:40am cricket: ↳ Song: "They Dont Know Its Christmas" by "James Ferraro" see also: James Ferraro - "Motel Christmas" (from his creepy ultra lo-fi hypnagogic pop phase)
	10:40am Bonnie Prince Jamie: Ooh thanks for reminding me of James Ferraro, I didn’t know he’d done a Christmas record. Far Side Virtual is a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned
	♥ 10:42am melinda: This has been a really nice collection of trad/not-trad, jolly and somber songs.
	10:42am annette: our snow is falling in tune
	♥ 10:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Greensleeves" by "Kevin Roth" I played this on the dulcimer as a child. I wasn't very good, though.
	♥ 10:47am Robini: G'morning Cricket and listeners. I don't often log-in but listen regularly. Wanted to wish you Happy holidays and tell you how much I love your program. Your commentaries and info, in-between sets is so interesting, love it.
	♥ 10:49am Robini: ↳ Song: "Greensleeves" by "Kevin Roth" Jeff Beck's version of Greensleeves, on the Truth LP is one of my favorites.
	10:49am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head" by "John Jacob Niles" Niles was one of kind, for sure.
	10:52am hendrix wolfbat: Loving your show. Gonna be a download fot sure!
	♥ 10:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks, cricket!
	10:53am annette: in my hometown of scranton, pa. John Mitchell, active organizer of miners union interred there. i always give him blessings. downtown great monument
	♥ 10:54am newton: Thanks Cricket! Happy Holidays to you!
	♥ 10:55am Brian in UK: Nice work, Cricket.
	10:57am TDK60: Thanks, Cricket. Have a merry Solstice if possible and desired.
	10:57am cricket: won't have time for my intended closer - bonus listening, if you've got a moment: www.youtube.com...
	10:58am cricket: about to log out, clean up, & skedaddle - thanks so much for joining me today, everybody! hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, whether you partake in the traditional festivities or otherwise
	🪕 ♥ 10:59am listener 126464: Thank you, cricket.
	♥ 11:01am chresti: Thanks cricket!
	♥ 11:21am coelacanth∅: Thanks cricket
	♥ 11:48am Steve Del Sol: Always a favorite in this family!!

Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from December 21, 2024

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