WFMU: Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 23, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 11:50am Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, hello one and all. Happy Holidays to our family of listeners, the scratched record is THE holiday event
	♥ 12:00pm doctorjazz: Pretty Picture! Hi Irene, Trudelians!
	♥ 12:01pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene! And Happy Holidays!
	🥁 ♥ 12:01pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Hello Irene, fellow crew!
	♥ 12:02pm Brian in UK: Hello Irene & folks. Good wishes to everyone.
	♥ 12:02pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @12:01 Hey S, M & S, Happy Holidays
	♥ 12:02pm WR: Hi Irene and folks. All I want for Christmas is for no new trouble tickets to be opened and I can work on updates and reports in peace while listening.
	♥ 12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah Irene! Hi there, Irene, and all other listeresr!
	12:03pm smit: Hey Irene and all...Gotta bang outta here at 12:30 till 2 for a doctor Zoom. In the meantime...Ho, ho, ho!
	♥ 12:03pm bradford: Hello Irene & greetings to all!
	♥ 12:03pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Hey Andrew
	♥ 12:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:50 Happy Holidays Sean!
	♥ 12:04pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:00 Hi there, doc!
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Christmastime" by "Aimee Mann" Big Aimee Mann fan (saw her Christmas show once, was fun. Had the bonus of Jonathan Coulton playing RE: Your Brains, a high point of my concert-going career!)
	♥ 12:04pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:02 Happy Holidays, Sean!
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:04 Hello Andrew!
	♥ 12:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ doctorjazz @12:04 Happy holidays doc
	♥ 12:06pm listener james from westwood: Chilly afternoon greetings, Irene and all!
	♥ 12:06pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Christmastime" by "Aimee Mann" Not a bad little alt-Christmas song.
	♥ 12:06pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" I like what he's doing with this one!
	♥ 12:07pm Dan S: Hi Irene and fellow listeners!
	12:08pm kwatts: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" How did I not know about this haha!
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" Love this Hicks track (and I'm a bah-humbug type)!
	12:09pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" My favorite Christmas song. I love the minor key. Just learned that this is based on a Ukrainian folk melody which explains a lot.
	♥ 12:09pm Sean in Bristol UK: My Queen, your show every year gets me through the seventh circle of hell this time of the season!
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:05 Happy Holidays to you and yours Sean!
	♥ 12:12pm Irene Trudel: Welcome, Sean, doctorjazz, S&M&S, Threemoons, Brian, WR, Andrew, smit, bradford, james, Dan S, kwatts, Charles and all listening in today! The vibe is Chris-massy today, but not exclusively.
	12:13pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ doctorjazz @12:09 I'm with you. I'm always relieved on Jan 2 when the whole over-pressurized holiday season is over and we can just hunker down and wait for Spring
	♥ 12:16pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Everything Is Cool" by "John Prine" More than cool, it's freezing out there!
	♥ 12:18pm Sean in Bristol UK: THE perfect set to get us in the Yuletide mood
	♥ 12:23pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and assembled festive Trudelians: Sean, Doc, S&M&S, 3M, Mr Brian, WR, Andrew, smit, bradford, James, Dan, kwatts, The Count!
	♥ 12:24pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Hey David
	♥ 12:25pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Afternoon, David!
	♥ 12:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @12:13 I'm totally with you, Charles. Too much pressure to be happy. New Year's is my preferred holiday, preferably with a quiet wind-down to the season.
	♥ 12:26pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dan S @12:16 Yeah Dan! A Christmas season toat actually feels like winter is nice for a change in NYC.
	♥ 12:30pm Sean in Bristol UK: The scratchy record, happy days!
	♥ 12:31pm Dan S: BTW, today is Festivus. Happy Festivus! I don't know any music for that holiday. Any suggestions?
	12:32pm northguineahills: happy quacker xmas, irene!
	♥ 12:35pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: I'm enjoying these - Christmas songs I'm not tired of, and pleasantly retro. Thanks. Have a great holiday.
	12:37pm wimpy: You know, I feel like I hadn’t really heard this song before this year, but I actually really like it as far as Christmas music goes. When it comes to Christmas songs about young Hispanic boys I’ll take it over the Jim reeves one
	♥ 12:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:25 10-15 degrees higher wouldn't hurt (would still feel like winter). It was 9 degrees when I headed off to work this morning...
	♥ 12:38pm Michael 98145: Hellos of the Solstice, Good People
	12:39pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ wimpy @12:37 I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in Jesus
	♥ 12:40pm Kevin-san: Jesus is in fine form for the Arsenal lately :) Happy Festivus everyone!
	♥ 12:42pm mdashkin: Gaby Moreno has such a great voice.
	12:43pm Dean: "Santa Claus & His Old Lady," Cheech y Chong, opens with a cover of Rios' tune.
	♥ 12:45pm Michael 98145: Nice versions
	♥ 12:45pm Irene Trudel: Greetings, n.g.h., Lizzie, wimpy, Michael, Kevin-san, mdashkin and Dean! Trying not to play the usual overplayed seasonal tunes. But I will drop in a few faves.
	♥ 12:45pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Long, Long Ago" by "Barry & Holly Tashian" Well, this is very...sincere.
	♥ 12:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" Spence could sing the telephone book, and I'd love it!
	12:47pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" love it
	12:48pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Oh Pueblecito de Belén" by "Gaby Moreno" que linda!
	♥ 12:48pm Michael 98145: a round for the house!
	♥ 12:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" Raise a glass. It sounds like this man is feeling no pain.
	♥ 12:48pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" The perfect song for the Yuletide
	♥ 12:49pm Dan S: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:48 Looks like we had the same thought.
	♥ 12:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" He sounds like he's playing a $5 guitar from a mail order catelog (and he gets it to sound good).
	12:49pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan S @12:48 I just spilled my drink! Fortunately it was a Topo Chico so no mess
	♥ 12:50pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:48 Might be my favorite version of this tune!
	🥁 ♥ 12:53pm Mxter Baba: Greetings, Irene and WFMU folxes, palz, kins and all!
	♥ 12:53pm Dan S: I must be heading out soon. Into the cold. Irene, thanks for the tunes, and best wishes for a happy holiday to you and yours!
	♥ 12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... Love this!
	12:56pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @12:53 Hi Baba! New pic?
	12:57pm northguineahills: ok, gotta run, thanks Irene! enjoy the holiday!
	♥ 12:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... Going for Baroque!
	♥ 1:00pm Michael 98145: ↳ Mxter Baba @12:53 Howdy!
	🥁 ♥ 1:00pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Charles in Chicago @12:56 what’s that you say? I have a banana in my ear! ha ha! Howdy!
	1:01pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... I will live only to honor (or praise)
	1:03pm Dean: Per the notes to my copy of Eugen Jochum's 1973 recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, "Ich will nur zu Ehren leben" translates to "I will live only to glorify Thee..."
	1:04pm Dean: ^IOW, what Charles said.
	1:05pm Charles in Chicago: "Ehren" is literally "honor" but I think "glorify" is a better poetic translation
	1:07pm Charles in Chicago: and if we're splitting hairs German "will" translates to "want to" or "desire" rather than future-tense "will". Tricky.
	1:08pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:07 "intend"
	♥ 1:11pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:01 Salutations Mxter Baba
	♥ 1:13pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:08 Ah, thanks for the translations/notes, Charles and Dean!
	1:16pm Dean: "to want," "to wish," "to choose": all meanings inherited from Germanic by English, even by the future tense applications
	♥ 1:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I Saw Three Ships/Newgate Hornpipe" by "John Renb... Lovely!
	1:18pm Dean: "Already in Old English, present tense forms of willan are often used with future reference, but chiefly in contexts where desire, purpose, or intention is implied, reflecting the meaning of the word in its use as a full verb."--OED
	1:29pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dean @1:18 Indeed. In German the future tense is indicated by "werden" ("Morgen wird es regnen" - it will rain tomorrow) which just states that a thing will come to pass. "Willen" indicates a desire for something to happen ("Ich will ein Oper haben!" - I want an opera! (Fitzcarraldo)) - the desired thing may or may not happen. English "will" combines both of these meanings, I think
	1:30pm Cronbat: An excellent show, Irene! Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / your identified winter-solsitce-adjacent festival to all!
	1:30pm Charles in Chicago: (sorry if that's too much German grammar!)
	♥ 1:32pm doctorjazz: Loved all that guitar music (this is always the best place for guitaristic sounds!)
	1:33pm Charles in Chicago: Robin Williamson all over my winter soundtrack this year
	1:50pm BenZ WPB: Hi Irene , Happy Holidays!! Always great to hear some Balmorhea!
	♥ 1:57pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Hi, David!
	♥ 1:58pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "We Three Kings" by "William Eaton & R.Carlos Nakai" sweet
	♥ 1:59pm Irene Trudel: Thanks Cronbat and BenZ! Happy Krimble to you too.
	♥ 1:59pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Song: "We Three Kings" by "William Eaton & R.Carlos Nakai" No matter how gorgeous the rendition, whenever I hear "We Three Kings" I can only think of the grade school lyrics: "We three kings of Orient are. Tried to smoke a rubber cigar..."
	2:04pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @1:59 It was loaded, and exploded!
	2:07pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:04 (I was hearing it too)
	♥ 2:10pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Thank you, Irene! I think that's from TIL MORNING! But thank YOU!! Just rolling out dough for the 2nd batch of Christmas cookies! xxxxx
	♥ 2:14pm spodiodi: ↳ Song: "Ever Forever / Noel" by "Bipolar Explorer" greetings, Irene. what lovely sounds to tune into
	♥ 2:14pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ spodiodi @2:14 Thank you, Spodiodi!
	♥ 2:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:04 "over Casey's Bar!"
	2:15pm still b/p: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @1:59 Tried to recall that the other day and couldn't fully remember our childhood version to recite for someone. Loaded cigar...? Joke store cigar...? And what was the final line after it exploded?
	2:17pm Charles in Chicago: we 3 kings of Orient are/Tried to smoke a rubber cigar/It was loaded, and exploded (Boom!)/ We two kings of Orient are ...
	♥ 2:17pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @2:10 Yum, Michael! Cookies will be my task tomorrow. Corrected the entry, BTW. ( I had a placeholder, and changed my mind on the tunes)
	2:18pm Charles in Chicago: (etc) ...
	2:19pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:18 I'm sure there are variations but that's the version I know
	2:19pm still b/p: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:17 Ahhh, now the songs of the season are complete. Thank you. Now join me for "Jingle bells, Santa smells..."
	2:20pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ still b/p @2:19 Batman smells, Robin laid an egg!!
	♥ 2:22pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Irene Trudel @2:17 Thank you, again, Irene! Our go-to Christmas cookie recipe is my mom and grandmother's (mom changed it up a bit) molasses ginger ones, frosted and topped with red and green sprinkles. I still use my mom's old stainless steel cookie cutters - a tree, an angel, a bell and a star... x
	♥ 2:27pm Irene Trudel: Holiday hellos to you, spodiodi and still b/p!
	2:29pm Peter K.: I've been working (from home) today, and sadly very busy. But I've also been listening, and let me just say that, as she does every holiday season, Irene has hit it out of the park. This is the Juan Soto of Christmas shows!
	♥ 2:33pm spodiodi: thank you for making it!
	♥ 2:35pm doctorjazz: Matt Wilson's Tree-O was the Gig alert this morning. The music John Schaeffer played sounded really great!
	♥ 2:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 Palmetto Records is still around, nice!
	♥ 2:41pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 I know. They were so much fun and I was the engineer.
	♥ 2:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @2:41 I figured you were.
	♥ 2:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "The Microscopic Septet" Micros for the win!
	2:45pm Peter K.: It wouldn't be Christmas without Dan Hicks, Joseph Spence and the Micros. Not for me, anyway.
	♥ 2:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 Seen Matt Wilson, but it's been a while, have to catch him again one of these days.
	♥ 2:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "The Microscopic Septet" Fabulous reharmonization!
	♥ 2:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Peter K. @2:45 Thanks Peter!
	♥ 2:50pm Charlie: Hi Irene, and all! Just letting you know I'm on deck, ready to fill in for Wendy at the top of the hour:) Playlist here: wfmu.org...
	2:51pm still b/p: Have to go run Xmas errands, but not an intense sally or a crushing list. Thanks for a better brand of holiday music.
	♥ 2:52pm Brian in UK: What a dilemma, Charlie on the Stream & Monica on the mainland.
	♥ 2:53pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charlie @2:50 Excellent!
	♥ 2:55pm bradford: Thanks, Irene!
	♥ 2:55pm Irene Trudel: Well, as Charlie says, he's on deck, and my ship must sail to make way for him. I hope you all have a great holiday week, and I'll be back in two weeks. Stream it right here for Busy Doing Nothing! wfmu.org...
	♥ 2:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Irene, fun show!
	🥁 ♥ 2:57pm chris in the redwoods: been listening and enjoying! thanks, Irene. happy holidays to all!
	♥ 2:59pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Irene!
	♥ 2:59pm spodiodi: thanks, Irene! was very pleasant, as always! happy holidays
	♥ 3:00pm WR: Thank you! Irene!
	♥ 12:42pm Sean in Bristol UK: Thank you for this annual holiday festival of great music, happy holidays, Irene and to rest of this awesome family

Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Rita Ford's Music Boxes	Spin, Spin Regina	A Music Box Christmas	Columbia
Aimee Mann	Christmastime "Christmastime" by "Aimee Mann"	One More Drifter in the Snow	SuperEgo Records	0:02:03 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	Carol of the Bells	Crazy for Christmas	Surf Dog Records	0:05:18 (Pop-up)
Kay Starr	December "December" by "Kay Starr"	The Christmas Anthology 1930-1950	Stardust	0:08:26 (Pop-up)
John Prine	Everything Is Cool "Everything Is Cool" by "John Prine"	A John Prine Christmas	Oh Boy Records	0:11:48 (Pop-up)
Rodney Crowell	Christmas for the Blues	Christmas Everywhere	New West Records	0:15:10 (Pop-up)
Fats Waller	Swingin Them Jingle Bells	Your Feet's Too Big		0:17:58 (Pop-up)
Hilary Gardner	Jingle Jingle Jingle (I Got Spurs)	On the Trail with the Lonesome Pines	Anzic Records	0:20:57 (Pop-up)
NRBQ	Christmas Wish "Christmas Wish" by "NRBQ"	Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album	Rounder Records	0:24:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	0:27:10 (Pop-up)
Augie Rios	¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?			0:35:27 (Pop-up)
Los Lobos	Amarga Navidad "Amarga Navidad" by "Los Lobos"	Llegó Navidad	Rhino	0:37:56 (Pop-up)
Gaby Moreno	Oh Pueblecito de Belén	Posada	Cosmica Records	0:40:48 (Pop-up)
Barry & Holly Tashian	Long, Long Ago	VA: Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album	Rounder	0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Joseph Spence	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town	VA: Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album	Rounder Records	0:46:33 (Pop-up)
Tony Trischka & friends	Remember the Poor	Of a Winter's Night	Tony Trischka	0:49:27 (Pop-up)
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones	J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich will nur zu Ehren leben"	Jingle All the Way	Rounder Records	0:54:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	0:58:25 (Pop-up)
Robin Williamson & Mike Heron	"Feast of Stephen"	Bloombury 1997	Pig's Whisker	1:09:18 (Pop-up)
Robin Williamson & His Merry Band	Wassail	The Merry Band's Farewell Concert at McCabe's	Pig's Whisker Music	1:14:30 (Pop-up)
John Renbourn	I Saw Three Ships/Newgate Hornpipe	Traveller's Prayer	Shanachie Records	1:17:08 (Pop-up)
Glenn Jones	A Different Kind of Christmas Carol	The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar	Thrill Jockey Records	1:24:46 (Pop-up)
Wall Matthews	O Come, O Come, Emmanuel	Star of Wonder	Zen Gardens Music	1:27:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	1:30:48 (Pop-up)
Will Ackerman	Light and Song "Light and Song" by "Will Ackerman"	VA: A Winter's Solstice V	Windham Hill Records	1:39:13 (Pop-up)
Ralph Towner	Winter Solstice "Winter Solstice" by "Ralph Towner"	Solstice	ECM Records	1:42:24 (Pop-up)
Balmorhea	Coventry Carol "Coventry Carol" by "Balmorhea"	Winter Tales	Deutsche Grammophon	1:46:22 (Pop-up)
Heikki Ruokangas and Simo Laihonen	En etsi valtaa loistoa	Joulupuu on rakennettu - Finnish Christmas Songs	Ramble Records	1:49:43 (Pop-up)
William Eaton & R.Carlos Nakai	We Three Kings	VA: Christmas Past - Holiday Harp Guitar Classics	Harp Guitar Music	1:55:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	2:01:21 (Pop-up)
Bipolar Explorer	Ever Forever / Noel	Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas	Slugg Records	2:08:46 (Pop-up)
Fleet Foxes	White Winter Hymnal "White Winter Hymnal" by "Fleet Foxes"	Fleet Foxes	Sub Pop Records	2:14:29 (Pop-up)
Jane Sibberry	Jesus Christ the Apple Tree	Shushan the Palace (Hymns of Earth)		2:16:55 (Pop-up)
Marisa Anderson	Angel's Rest "Angel's Rest" by "Marisa Anderson"	Cloud Corner	Thrill Jockey	2:19:55 (Pop-up)
The Cleaners From Venus	December Passing	Winter EP	Martin Newell	2:22:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	2:27:12 (Pop-up)
Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O	Snowfall	Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O	Palmetto Records	2:34:52 (Pop-up)
The Microscopic Septet	Silent Night	Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play The Blues	Cuneiform Records	2:40:45 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	We Free Kings	"Rahsaan": The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk	Mercury	2:47:03 (Pop-up)
The Heath Brothers	Our Little Town	Jingle Bell Jazz	Columbia	2:51:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino Strings	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	2:58:52 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 11:50am Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, hello one and all. Happy Holidays to our family of listeners, the scratched record is THE holiday event
	♥ 12:00pm doctorjazz: Pretty Picture! Hi Irene, Trudelians!
	♥ 12:01pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene! And Happy Holidays!
	🥁 ♥ 12:01pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Hello Irene, fellow crew!
	♥ 12:02pm Brian in UK: Hello Irene & folks. Good wishes to everyone.
	♥ 12:02pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @12:01 Hey S, M & S, Happy Holidays
	♥ 12:02pm WR: Hi Irene and folks. All I want for Christmas is for no new trouble tickets to be opened and I can work on updates and reports in peace while listening.
	♥ 12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah Irene! Hi there, Irene, and all other listeresr!
	12:03pm smit: Hey Irene and all...Gotta bang outta here at 12:30 till 2 for a doctor Zoom. In the meantime...Ho, ho, ho!
	♥ 12:03pm bradford: Hello Irene & greetings to all!
	♥ 12:03pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Hey Andrew
	♥ 12:03pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:50 Happy Holidays Sean!
	♥ 12:04pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:00 Hi there, doc!
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Christmastime" by "Aimee Mann" Big Aimee Mann fan (saw her Christmas show once, was fun. Had the bonus of Jonathan Coulton playing RE: Your Brains, a high point of my concert-going career!)
	♥ 12:04pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:02 Happy Holidays, Sean!
	♥ 12:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:04 Hello Andrew!
	♥ 12:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ doctorjazz @12:04 Happy holidays doc
	♥ 12:06pm listener james from westwood: Chilly afternoon greetings, Irene and all!
	♥ 12:06pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Christmastime" by "Aimee Mann" Not a bad little alt-Christmas song.
	♥ 12:06pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" I like what he's doing with this one!
	♥ 12:07pm Dan S: Hi Irene and fellow listeners!
	12:08pm kwatts: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" How did I not know about this haha!
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" Love this Hicks track (and I'm a bah-humbug type)!
	12:09pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Carol of the Bells" by "Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks" My favorite Christmas song. I love the minor key. Just learned that this is based on a Ukrainian folk melody which explains a lot.
	♥ 12:09pm Sean in Bristol UK: My Queen, your show every year gets me through the seventh circle of hell this time of the season!
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:05 Happy Holidays to you and yours Sean!
	♥ 12:12pm Irene Trudel: Welcome, Sean, doctorjazz, S&M&S, Threemoons, Brian, WR, Andrew, smit, bradford, james, Dan S, kwatts, Charles and all listening in today! The vibe is Chris-massy today, but not exclusively.
	12:13pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ doctorjazz @12:09 I'm with you. I'm always relieved on Jan 2 when the whole over-pressurized holiday season is over and we can just hunker down and wait for Spring
	♥ 12:16pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Everything Is Cool" by "John Prine" More than cool, it's freezing out there!
	♥ 12:18pm Sean in Bristol UK: THE perfect set to get us in the Yuletide mood
	♥ 12:23pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and assembled festive Trudelians: Sean, Doc, S&M&S, 3M, Mr Brian, WR, Andrew, smit, bradford, James, Dan, kwatts, The Count!
	♥ 12:24pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Hey David
	♥ 12:25pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Afternoon, David!
	♥ 12:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @12:13 I'm totally with you, Charles. Too much pressure to be happy. New Year's is my preferred holiday, preferably with a quiet wind-down to the season.
	♥ 12:26pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dan S @12:16 Yeah Dan! A Christmas season toat actually feels like winter is nice for a change in NYC.
	♥ 12:30pm Sean in Bristol UK: The scratchy record, happy days!
	♥ 12:31pm Dan S: BTW, today is Festivus. Happy Festivus! I don't know any music for that holiday. Any suggestions?
	12:32pm northguineahills: happy quacker xmas, irene!
	♥ 12:35pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: I'm enjoying these - Christmas songs I'm not tired of, and pleasantly retro. Thanks. Have a great holiday.
	12:37pm wimpy: You know, I feel like I hadn’t really heard this song before this year, but I actually really like it as far as Christmas music goes. When it comes to Christmas songs about young Hispanic boys I’ll take it over the Jim reeves one
	♥ 12:38pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:25 10-15 degrees higher wouldn't hurt (would still feel like winter). It was 9 degrees when I headed off to work this morning...
	♥ 12:38pm Michael 98145: Hellos of the Solstice, Good People
	12:39pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ wimpy @12:37 I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in Jesus
	♥ 12:40pm Kevin-san: Jesus is in fine form for the Arsenal lately :) Happy Festivus everyone!
	♥ 12:42pm mdashkin: Gaby Moreno has such a great voice.
	12:43pm Dean: "Santa Claus & His Old Lady," Cheech y Chong, opens with a cover of Rios' tune.
	♥ 12:45pm Michael 98145: Nice versions
	♥ 12:45pm Irene Trudel: Greetings, n.g.h., Lizzie, wimpy, Michael, Kevin-san, mdashkin and Dean! Trying not to play the usual overplayed seasonal tunes. But I will drop in a few faves.
	♥ 12:45pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Long, Long Ago" by "Barry & Holly Tashian" Well, this is very...sincere.
	♥ 12:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" Spence could sing the telephone book, and I'd love it!
	12:47pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" love it
	12:48pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Oh Pueblecito de Belén" by "Gaby Moreno" que linda!
	♥ 12:48pm Michael 98145: a round for the house!
	♥ 12:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" Raise a glass. It sounds like this man is feeling no pain.
	♥ 12:48pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" The perfect song for the Yuletide
	♥ 12:49pm Dan S: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:48 Looks like we had the same thought.
	♥ 12:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by "Joseph Spence" He sounds like he's playing a $5 guitar from a mail order catelog (and he gets it to sound good).
	12:49pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dan S @12:48 I just spilled my drink! Fortunately it was a Topo Chico so no mess
	♥ 12:50pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:48 Might be my favorite version of this tune!
	🥁 ♥ 12:53pm Mxter Baba: Greetings, Irene and WFMU folxes, palz, kins and all!
	♥ 12:53pm Dan S: I must be heading out soon. Into the cold. Irene, thanks for the tunes, and best wishes for a happy holiday to you and yours!
	♥ 12:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... Love this!
	12:56pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Mxter Baba @12:53 Hi Baba! New pic?
	12:57pm northguineahills: ok, gotta run, thanks Irene! enjoy the holiday!
	♥ 12:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... Going for Baroque!
	♥ 1:00pm Michael 98145: ↳ Mxter Baba @12:53 Howdy!
	🥁 ♥ 1:00pm Mxter Baba: ↳ Charles in Chicago @12:56 what’s that you say? I have a banana in my ear! ha ha! Howdy!
	1:01pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio: BWV 248: #41 "Ich ... I will live only to honor (or praise)
	1:03pm Dean: Per the notes to my copy of Eugen Jochum's 1973 recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, "Ich will nur zu Ehren leben" translates to "I will live only to glorify Thee..."
	1:04pm Dean: ^IOW, what Charles said.
	1:05pm Charles in Chicago: "Ehren" is literally "honor" but I think "glorify" is a better poetic translation
	1:07pm Charles in Chicago: and if we're splitting hairs German "will" translates to "want to" or "desire" rather than future-tense "will". Tricky.
	1:08pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:07 "intend"
	♥ 1:11pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:01 Salutations Mxter Baba
	♥ 1:13pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charles in Chicago @1:08 Ah, thanks for the translations/notes, Charles and Dean!
	1:16pm Dean: "to want," "to wish," "to choose": all meanings inherited from Germanic by English, even by the future tense applications
	♥ 1:18pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I Saw Three Ships/Newgate Hornpipe" by "John Renb... Lovely!
	1:18pm Dean: "Already in Old English, present tense forms of willan are often used with future reference, but chiefly in contexts where desire, purpose, or intention is implied, reflecting the meaning of the word in its use as a full verb."--OED
	1:29pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Dean @1:18 Indeed. In German the future tense is indicated by "werden" ("Morgen wird es regnen" - it will rain tomorrow) which just states that a thing will come to pass. "Willen" indicates a desire for something to happen ("Ich will ein Oper haben!" - I want an opera! (Fitzcarraldo)) - the desired thing may or may not happen. English "will" combines both of these meanings, I think
	1:30pm Cronbat: An excellent show, Irene! Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / your identified winter-solsitce-adjacent festival to all!
	1:30pm Charles in Chicago: (sorry if that's too much German grammar!)
	♥ 1:32pm doctorjazz: Loved all that guitar music (this is always the best place for guitaristic sounds!)
	1:33pm Charles in Chicago: Robin Williamson all over my winter soundtrack this year
	1:50pm BenZ WPB: Hi Irene , Happy Holidays!! Always great to hear some Balmorhea!
	♥ 1:57pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ David (in London) @12:23 Hi, David!
	♥ 1:58pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "We Three Kings" by "William Eaton & R.Carlos Nakai" sweet
	♥ 1:59pm Irene Trudel: Thanks Cronbat and BenZ! Happy Krimble to you too.
	♥ 1:59pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Song: "We Three Kings" by "William Eaton & R.Carlos Nakai" No matter how gorgeous the rendition, whenever I hear "We Three Kings" I can only think of the grade school lyrics: "We three kings of Orient are. Tried to smoke a rubber cigar..."
	2:04pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @1:59 It was loaded, and exploded!
	2:07pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:04 (I was hearing it too)
	♥ 2:10pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Thank you, Irene! I think that's from TIL MORNING! But thank YOU!! Just rolling out dough for the 2nd batch of Christmas cookies! xxxxx
	♥ 2:14pm spodiodi: ↳ Song: "Ever Forever / Noel" by "Bipolar Explorer" greetings, Irene. what lovely sounds to tune into
	♥ 2:14pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ spodiodi @2:14 Thank you, Spodiodi!
	♥ 2:15pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:04 "over Casey's Bar!"
	2:15pm still b/p: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @1:59 Tried to recall that the other day and couldn't fully remember our childhood version to recite for someone. Loaded cigar...? Joke store cigar...? And what was the final line after it exploded?
	2:17pm Charles in Chicago: we 3 kings of Orient are/Tried to smoke a rubber cigar/It was loaded, and exploded (Boom!)/ We two kings of Orient are ...
	♥ 2:17pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @2:10 Yum, Michael! Cookies will be my task tomorrow. Corrected the entry, BTW. ( I had a placeholder, and changed my mind on the tunes)
	2:18pm Charles in Chicago: (etc) ...
	2:19pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:18 I'm sure there are variations but that's the version I know
	2:19pm still b/p: ↳ Charles in Chicago @2:17 Ahhh, now the songs of the season are complete. Thank you. Now join me for "Jingle bells, Santa smells..."
	2:20pm Charles in Chicago: ↳ still b/p @2:19 Batman smells, Robin laid an egg!!
	♥ 2:22pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: ↳ Irene Trudel @2:17 Thank you, again, Irene! Our go-to Christmas cookie recipe is my mom and grandmother's (mom changed it up a bit) molasses ginger ones, frosted and topped with red and green sprinkles. I still use my mom's old stainless steel cookie cutters - a tree, an angel, a bell and a star... x
	♥ 2:27pm Irene Trudel: Holiday hellos to you, spodiodi and still b/p!
	2:29pm Peter K.: I've been working (from home) today, and sadly very busy. But I've also been listening, and let me just say that, as she does every holiday season, Irene has hit it out of the park. This is the Juan Soto of Christmas shows!
	♥ 2:33pm spodiodi: thank you for making it!
	♥ 2:35pm doctorjazz: Matt Wilson's Tree-O was the Gig alert this morning. The music John Schaeffer played sounded really great!
	♥ 2:35pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 Palmetto Records is still around, nice!
	♥ 2:41pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 I know. They were so much fun and I was the engineer.
	♥ 2:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @2:41 I figured you were.
	♥ 2:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "The Microscopic Septet" Micros for the win!
	2:45pm Peter K.: It wouldn't be Christmas without Dan Hicks, Joseph Spence and the Micros. Not for me, anyway.
	♥ 2:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:35 Seen Matt Wilson, but it's been a while, have to catch him again one of these days.
	♥ 2:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "The Microscopic Septet" Fabulous reharmonization!
	♥ 2:48pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Peter K. @2:45 Thanks Peter!
	♥ 2:50pm Charlie: Hi Irene, and all! Just letting you know I'm on deck, ready to fill in for Wendy at the top of the hour:) Playlist here: wfmu.org...
	2:51pm still b/p: Have to go run Xmas errands, but not an intense sally or a crushing list. Thanks for a better brand of holiday music.
	♥ 2:52pm Brian in UK: What a dilemma, Charlie on the Stream & Monica on the mainland.
	♥ 2:53pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Charlie @2:50 Excellent!
	♥ 2:55pm bradford: Thanks, Irene!
	♥ 2:55pm Irene Trudel: Well, as Charlie says, he's on deck, and my ship must sail to make way for him. I hope you all have a great holiday week, and I'll be back in two weeks. Stream it right here for Busy Doing Nothing! wfmu.org...
	♥ 2:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Irene, fun show!
	🥁 ♥ 2:57pm chris in the redwoods: been listening and enjoying! thanks, Irene. happy holidays to all!
	♥ 2:59pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Irene!
	♥ 2:59pm spodiodi: thanks, Irene! was very pleasant, as always! happy holidays
	♥ 3:00pm WR: Thank you! Irene!
	♥ 12:42pm Sean in Bristol UK: Thank you for this annual holiday festival of great music, happy holidays, Irene and to rest of this awesome family

Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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