WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 20, 2009

Listener comments!
	2:05am Mike Sin: Just got back from DJing a Toys-for-Tots benefit at a bar out in Jersey... treacherous driving... but, I'm glad to arrive home and hear your show on an hour early! What's the deal? Prof. Dum Dum was snowed out, huh? Anyway, I look forward to the show after I heat up the rum.
	2:07am Joe: Hey, Mike! Nice to have you live. Hope the benefit was a success. Yes, Professor D.D. called and just said "Jesus won."
	2:25am slugluv1313: oooooooo me loving thee WILLIE COLON!!!!
	2:29am slugluv1313: here is a LIVE version! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfmg6g4d_0M ENJOY!!!!
	2:31am muhrvis: Thanks for the extra DJing tonight. I am listening from the comfort of Oregon, but I appreciate the difficulty, as I am from Michigan originally.
	2:36am Joe: Thanks for the COOOOOL Willie Colon clip, slugluv! Thanks for tuning in from Oregon, muhrvis!
	2:36am Becky visiting in Michigan: Hi Joe! I sent you an email about archiving considerations tonight. Check it out before you go to sleep if you can. Get home safely!
	2:37am slugluv1313: loving your extra-extended-version show too, Mr. McGasko! Bert and Ernie, Polish treats, old school salsa and now DISCO CHRISTMAS, woo hoo! lovely soundtrack for this ultra SNOWY night!!!
	2:40am Joe: Hey, Becky! I'll check it out after the show, if that's okay. Thanks so much for checking in--I was wondering what to do about the Dum Dum half fill-in!
	2:41am Joe: Thanks, slugluv! I'm glad that disco Xmas music is going down eazy on this snowbound night!
	2:51am slugluv1313: YES and omg it's CHARO!!!!!!! do you know if Iris Chacon recorded any Xmas songs??? (i am thinking that she MUST have!) glad you dig the Willie Colon clip . . . and for some reason all of this is reminding me of childhood Christmas mornings when my Mom would play all our CHIPMUNKS records (which i still have but alas no turntable) . . . also reminds me i have GOT to dig out my JINGLE CATS CDs!!!!
	2:59am Sue: Hi Joe! How are you?
	3:02am Joe: Hey, Sue! Happy Xmas, many days early!
	3:09am Sue: How long have you been on? I missed you for an hour or two? I tried to be prompt by 3!
	3:10am Sue: Yes, Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa and Happy Hanukkah! I hope I covered everything.... Happy New Year!
	3:10am Joe: Yes, I got an early start tonight! The snow is swallowing DJs left and right.
	3:12am Sue: What about you?! How are you getting home? Maybe you'll have to cover a triple shift... good for us!
	3:14am Joe: Wow! I HOPE Dan can make it in! I like Christmas music, but even 4 hours is pushing it! I'll be training it...ugh!
	3:17am Sue: Well I guess that's a safer way of getting home. I have to check out the weather report. I don't know when this is supposed to stop. Looks crazy out there. I just woke up to this blizzard. I was all doubtful it was even going to happen. Nice Christmas set!
	3:18am Toronto Jim: I've been enchanted since I started listening 3/4-hour ago. Come to my senses a bit, and I gotta say that I'm floored by this mix — 'cause I'm a fella that fekkin' hates the annual overload of x-mas compilations. But, man! THIS mix has redeemed the whole holiday for me.
	3:21am Toronto Jim: Umm, looking at the time signature on the show, I guess I haven't been "enchanted" for quite as long as I'd professed. So — eighteen minutes, then. Goes to show you just how "enchanted" I am at this juncture in time.
	3:25am Joe: Hey, Toronto Jim! Thanks for the swell words--that makes it all worth it to know I got someone over the Xmas music hurdle!
	3:25am Toronto Jim: I once got an homage/parody of Thomas's poem, called "A Child's Christmas in Scarborough." Quite charming it was, actually. People from Toronto will understand the potential subtexts.
	3:27am Toronto Jim: Thanks for the kind welcome, Joe. Seriously: Xmas music can really get on one's tits, eh? Yours is far better, as I've said.
	3:29am Sue: I agree with Toronto Jim. I really hate Christmas normally but Joe makes it bearable somehow.
	3:30am Toronto Jim: I take this long reading by Thomas to be a signal — a beacon, if you will — summoning me to have a wee whisky.
	3:32am Toronto Jim: Aaaaaah... that's better.
	3:36am Toronto Jim: Hi Sue: I know what you mean. Xmas can be a drag. I have been more or less successful, in recent years, in simply not letting it make me anxious anymore. I take it in stride nowadays, and if I'm late for a family gathering or some such, I apologize and forget about it. "Cause I realize now that it ain't no big deal. (I had another whisky there...)
	3:37am Joe: I'm a wee bit jealous, TJ--some Xmas whiskey sounds niiiice....just like Auntie Hannah with her port!
	3:40am Toronto Jim: Port for her, was it? A nice Xmas drink. My mum always went for lemon-flavoured gin. My dad likes Drambuie for Xmas. Yesterday evening, I had something odd: it was an Xmas party at a bar, but they had no egg nog. So I improvised and had a kahlua and rum with table cream. Pretty close to the "xmas" flavour I was aiming at. Whisky's good too. So good, in fact...
	3:42am Joe: And parsnip wine~!
	3:43am Toronto Jim: PARSNIP wine?! Where were you raised, my boy? Appalachia?
	3:43am Toronto Jim: ...or the Ukrainian steppe?
	3:44am Toronto Jim: Papua New Guinea?
	3:45am Toronto Jim: Seriously, though: how does it taste? I'm intrigued. Got a bottle of Niagara peach wine here for some rainy day. That's quite good.
	3:47am Joe: I don't really know! That's another one of Auntie Hannah's tipples in the story. Niagra peach wine sounds great!!
	3:49am slugluv1313: PARSNIP wine??? sounds like some Eastern European concoction to me! . . still a BLIZZARD out there! and YUP! WFMU's DJs sure have a way with thee Xmas music . . . TOTALLY helps one to HEAL from the worst case of BAH-HUM-BUGS brought on by waaaaaaay too much "lite-FM" type CRAP with which one is inundated this time of year!!!
	3:49am Toronto Jim: That prog-rock Biafran conflict xmas tune blows my mind. I've got friends who are guaranteed to wet themselves when I play them the archive.
	3:50am Sue: Are you doing Single File at the regular time?
	3:53am slugluv1313: Toronto Jim, okay, how did i miss this?? what is this "prog-rock Biafran conflict xmas tune" of which you speak???
	3:54am Joe: Hey, TJ--that May Blitz track IS pretty amazing. Definitely two sides to the same day. Sue, I think I will do Single File at the regular time. I hope you can hold on!
	3:55am Toronto Jim: slugluv1313: That "May Blitz" track — "The 25th of December." Evidently from their misnamed album "The 2nd of May."
	3:56am Sue: Oh yeah, of course. I didn't know if you were doing two b/c of the extended time
	3:57am Joe: I thought about it, but we'll see-maybe it will be longer tonight if it feels good!
	3:59am Toronto Jim: It's always longer when it feels good, Joe.
	4:08am Joe: I totally agree with you, TorRRRonto!
	4:09am Sue: Oh my god, I was just thinking of asking you to play this song, seriously! It's been in my head, woo hoo!!
	4:11am Joe: That's so excellent, Sue! Loretta Lynn has so many outstanding Xmas songs that it's hard to pick, but this is my current favorite...
	4:11am Toronto Jim: It may be too late for a request, but à la Sue, I've been thinking of one for a bit. Do you have anyone doing Woody Guthrie's "1913 Massacre"? Arlo did it, I'm sure, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot did a rendition at the '69 tribute to Woody. It is an Xmas song...
	4:13am Sue: I know what the song's about, but she has the sexiest voice
	4:14am Joe: Toronto, your wish is my command. Woody Guthrie soon to come up...
	4:15am Toronto Jim: Wheeee!
	4:31am Toronto Jim: Thank you so much, Joe, for the Massacre. As fun as everything is, it's also good for all of us to remember capitalist injustices. No better time to do it, in a way...
	4:33am Toronto Jim: I've been reading the topmost early posts, and I'm sorry that I haven't acknowledged your terrible blizzard! Here, it's barely cold, no wind, no snow to speak of. You have my condolences, Joe, Sue, and all others blanketed.
	4:35am Sue: Thanks Jim!
	4:39am Joe: It's a real winter wonderland, here, Jim. I hope I make it home one of these days!
	4:39am Toronto Jim: I can remember once when the first blizzard of the year came to T.O. and a couple friends and I dropped acid and wandered all about the streets, knee-deep in that softest powdery kind of snow — the freshest. ...So go ahead, Sue: while you're looking out the window — take drugs!
	4:40am Toronto Jim: Is that the FREE DESIGN?? You've outdone yourself, Joe!
	4:42am Sue: How did you know? :)
	4:43am Toronto Jim: Simply adore the Free Design. Their sound is alternately perfect for flaky winter storms and for gistening summer afternoons.
	4:45am Toronto Jim: Umm, "glistening," if you please.
	4:48am Joe: I agree totally, Jim. I have a nice later Xmas FD single on white vinyl I may try to slip in a little later...
	4:49am Toronto Jim: Please do slip it in, Joe! I'm sure I've never heard it, and I may never will if you don't play it! (And I didn't make any jokes about Joe's "slipping it in.")
	4:52am Sue: Oh my god, you guys are outta control!
	4:54am Joe: I'm actually not sure if it's a remake of their earlier "Christmas Is the Day" or the original, but either way, it's a great song, so I'll try to "get it on"!
	4:55am Sue: This is a total x-rated christmas
	4:55am Toronto Jim: Excellent. Just introduce the "needle" to the "groove."
	5:00am Sue: I love your trucker song. Man, I'm normally such a humbug, but you're all gettin me in the spirit
	5:02am Toronto Jim: The organ breaks have been cracking me up all along. (But kinda nightmarish too, in a David Lynch kind of way.)
	5:02am Toronto Jim: Don't say "beaver"!
	5:06am Joe: Yay, I'm getting Sue in the spirit! This song ought to kill it!
	5:13am Toronto Jim: Isn't it amazing what computers can do those days?
	5:16am KUMA: 33rpm!!
	5:19am Toronto Jim: Ah! That Free Design. Thanks a lot, Joe. I'm with Sue: you're making the holiday bearably merry!
	5:22am Joe: Aw, shucks. :)
	5:28am Toronto Jim: Got to be part of a trilogy, right? No self-respecting prog-folk flautist would do a song about the "ghost of Christmas past" without also doing the other two ghosts.
	5:29am Toronto Jim: Mum! Look! Mum, come quick! Look! It's the... snowploughs!
	5:35am Joe: Hey, I wonder! That would be great if Steve did two other tunes on the theme. Somebody get him on the horn!
	5:37am Toronto Jim: My Lord, this is... very weird indeed. Fabulous.
	5:40am Toronto Jim: This is weird too.
	5:41am Joe: Happy Birthday, Little Savior!
	5:42am Toronto Jim: It's Xmas after all — we all gotta tolerate the Christers for a while.
	5:54am Toronto Jim: Still listening, Joe (and loving it every moment). But retreating from the keyboard with an open-ended ticket to Slumbertown. G'night folks! Here's hoping your Xmas is as smirkingly lovely as Joe's set tonight.
	5:59am KUMA: Thanks for amazing show ! I will listen this show again with my girlfriend, at Christmas time ^-^
	6:00am Joe: Thanks for listening, everybody! I had a blast. Merry Christmas to you all!
	11:24am Sue: Wow, when you played Loretta Lynn, I was hoping you'd also play the other one I've had in my head and listening again, I realize that you played the Lord Executor song in the earlier part of the show!! Yippee! Stellar xmas show!!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 20, 2009

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Bert and Ernie	Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (excerpt)	Christmas Eve on Sesame Street	Sesame Street	1980	LP		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Paddy Roberts	Merry Christmas, You Suckers			late 50s	MP3
Regina Kujawa with the B. Witkowski Orkestra	Rudolf Z Czerwonym Nosem	Polish Christmas Carols	Dana	50s?	EP
Jimmy Masuluke	Sour Milk for Christmas				MP3
Lord Executor	How I Spent My Time at the Hospital	Calypso Breakaway 1927-1941	Rounder	1990	CD
Die Winzies	O Tannenbaum "O Tannenbaum" by "Die Winzies"	Weihnachten mit den Winzies	OXA	1998	CD
Michiko Hamamura	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Michiko Hamamura"	Japan's Teen Queen: Victor Recordings, 1957-1963	RCA Victor	2004	CD
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra	Blue Christmas	The Apartment Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	United Artists	1960	LP
Willie Colon	La Murga de Panama "La Murga de Panama" by "Willie Colon"	Asalto Navideno	Fania	2006	CD	From early 70s
Electric Jungle	Funky Funky Christmas	In the Christmas Groove	Strut	2009	CD

Memphis Sounds Orchestra	Sleigh Ride		RSO	1976	45
The Walter Murphy Orchestra	Deck the Halls		Major	1976	45
Moonlion	The Little Drummer Boy "The Little Drummer Boy" by "Moonlion"		P.I.P.	1975	45
Charo	(Mamacita) Donde Esta Santa Claus?		Salsoul	1978	45
Mirror Image	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	Yuletide Disco	Pickwick	1979	LP
The Salsoul Orchestra	The Little Drummer Boy	Salsoul Christmas	Salsoul	1976	LP

Charles Bevel	Black Santa Claus "Black Santa Claus" by "Charles Bevel"		A&M	1974	45
The Emotions	What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas		Stax		45		0:01:37 (Pop-up)
The Jackson 5	Christmas Won't Be the Same This Year	Jackson 5 Christmas Album	Motown	1970	LP		0:04:40 (Pop-up)
Donny Hathaway	This Christmas "This Christmas" by "Donny Hathaway"		Atco	1970	45	Mono version, just to be different	0:07:08 (Pop-up)
Honey & the Bees	Jing Jing a Ling	Cool Yule, Volume 2	Rhino	1988	LP	From 1969	0:10:41 (Pop-up)
Wild Honey	Angel's Christmas "Angel's Christmas" by "Wild Honey"	In the Christmas Groove	Strut	2009	CD		0:13:17 (Pop-up)

Dylan Thomas	A Child's Christmas in Wales	Dylan Thomas Reading A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems	Caedmon	1964	LP		0:21:16 (Pop-up)
John Cale	A Child's Christmas in Wales	Fragments of a Rainy Season	Rykodisc	1992	CD		0:40:08 (Pop-up)
May Blitz	The 25th of December 1969	The 2nd of May	BGO	1992	CD	From 1971	0:44:00 (Pop-up)
Johnny McEvoy	The Bells on Christmas Eve	About This Time	Target (Ireland)	1967	EP		0:46:32 (Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong	Twas the Night Before Christmas		Continental	1971	45		0:50:52 (Pop-up)

Del Reeves	Christmas Is Lonely "Christmas Is Lonely" by "Del Reeves"		United Artists	1966	45		1:02:58 (Pop-up)
Loretta Lynn	Christmas without Daddy	Country Christmas	MCA	1966	LP		1:05:52 (Pop-up)
Jesse Rogers with the Saddle Buddies	Red, White, and Blue Christmas		MGM	1952	78		1:07:22 (Pop-up)
Johnny Paycheck	Mommy for Awhile on Christmas Day	A Little Darlin' Christmas	Koch	2004	CD		1:10:35 (Pop-up)
Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys	Jingle Bells		RCA Victor	1946	78	Calls by Lawrence V. Loy	1:13:35 (Pop-up)
Lynn Anderson	Ding-a-Ling the Christmas Bell		Columbia	1971	45		1:15:58 (Pop-up)
Hank Snow	A Letter to Santa Claus		RCA	1967	45		1:19:06 (Pop-up)
Eddy Arnold	Will Santy Come to Shanty Town		RCA Victor	1949	78		1:22:47 (Pop-up)
Woody Guthrie	1913 Massacre "1913 Massacre" by "Woody Guthrie"	Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Volume 3	Smithsonain Folkways	1993	CD		1:26:09 (Pop-up)

Hernando Hopkins and the Orchestra	Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer		ABC-Paramount	1958	45		1:35:28 (Pop-up)
The Free Design	Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)		Project 3	1968	45		1:37:42 (Pop-up)
Jerry and the Landslides	Get Off of My Roof		P.R.X.	?	45		1:39:10 (Pop-up)
Mud	Lonely This Christmas "Lonely This Christmas" by "Mud"		RAK	1974	45		1:41:52 (Pop-up)
Hilly Kristal	Mud "Mud" by "Hilly Kristal"		CBGB & OMFUG Records	1976	45		1:45:36 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Hard Candy Christmas		RCA	1982	45		1:48:30 (Pop-up)
Toni Wine	My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas		Colpix	1963	45		1:52:21 (Pop-up)
Lee Arnold	A Trucker's Christmas "A Trucker's Christmas" by "Lee Arnold"		Kirshner	1976	45		1:54:52 (Pop-up)

Prince	Another Lonely Christmas "Another Lonely Christmas" by "Prince"	Yulesville	Warner Brothers	1987	LP	From 1984	2:03:19 (Pop-up)
Douglas Leedy	Good King Wenceslas	A Very Merry Electric Christmas to You!	Capitol	1969	LP		2:07:29 (Pop-up)
Joseph Byrd	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	A Christmas Yet to Come	Takoma	1975	LP		2:10:42 (Pop-up)
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	MCA	1983	LP		2:12:36 (Pop-up)
The Free Design	Christmas Is the Day		Siesta	1998	45		2:15:31 (Pop-up)
Randy Burns	Christmas Lights "Christmas Lights" by "Randy Burns"	I'm a Lover, Not a Fool	Polydor	1973	LP		2:18:39 (Pop-up)
Steve Ashley	The Spirit of Christmas	Electric Muse, Volume IV	Island	1974	LP		2:22:11 (Pop-up)

Bishop Perry Tillis	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Bishop Perry Tillis"	In Times LIke These...	Mississippi	2009	LP		2:31:26 (Pop-up)
Edward Penney	What Is Christmas "What Is Christmas" by "Edward Penney"		Radax	early 50s	78		2:36:06 (Pop-up)
Father Malcolm Boyd and Charlie Byrd	It's Christmas Time Again, Jesus		Columbia	1966	45		2:39:15 (Pop-up)
Reverend C.L. Franklin	The Challenge of Christmas (excerpt)	The Challenge of Christmas	Chess	1965?	LP		2:40:57 (Pop-up)
Evangelist Jones Singletary and Her Holy Ghost Band	It's Christmas to Me	Jesus Is Going to Bless Me	Rae-Cox	1977	LP		2:47:44 (Pop-up)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Rosette Gospel Singers	Silent Night (Christmas Hymn)		Decca	1959	45		2:51:14 (Pop-up)

Les Paul and Mary Ford	White Christmas	Christmas Cheer	Capitol	1955	EP		2:57:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:05am Mike Sin: Just got back from DJing a Toys-for-Tots benefit at a bar out in Jersey... treacherous driving... but, I'm glad to arrive home and hear your show on an hour early! What's the deal? Prof. Dum Dum was snowed out, huh? Anyway, I look forward to the show after I heat up the rum.
	2:07am Joe: Hey, Mike! Nice to have you live. Hope the benefit was a success. Yes, Professor D.D. called and just said "Jesus won."
	2:25am slugluv1313: oooooooo me loving thee WILLIE COLON!!!!
	2:29am slugluv1313: here is a LIVE version! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfmg6g4d_0M ENJOY!!!!
	2:31am muhrvis: Thanks for the extra DJing tonight. I am listening from the comfort of Oregon, but I appreciate the difficulty, as I am from Michigan originally.
	2:36am Joe: Thanks for the COOOOOL Willie Colon clip, slugluv! Thanks for tuning in from Oregon, muhrvis!
	2:36am Becky visiting in Michigan: Hi Joe! I sent you an email about archiving considerations tonight. Check it out before you go to sleep if you can. Get home safely!
	2:37am slugluv1313: loving your extra-extended-version show too, Mr. McGasko! Bert and Ernie, Polish treats, old school salsa and now DISCO CHRISTMAS, woo hoo! lovely soundtrack for this ultra SNOWY night!!!
	2:40am Joe: Hey, Becky! I'll check it out after the show, if that's okay. Thanks so much for checking in--I was wondering what to do about the Dum Dum half fill-in!
	2:41am Joe: Thanks, slugluv! I'm glad that disco Xmas music is going down eazy on this snowbound night!
	2:51am slugluv1313: YES and omg it's CHARO!!!!!!! do you know if Iris Chacon recorded any Xmas songs??? (i am thinking that she MUST have!) glad you dig the Willie Colon clip . . . and for some reason all of this is reminding me of childhood Christmas mornings when my Mom would play all our CHIPMUNKS records (which i still have but alas no turntable) . . . also reminds me i have GOT to dig out my JINGLE CATS CDs!!!!
	2:59am Sue: Hi Joe! How are you?
	3:02am Joe: Hey, Sue! Happy Xmas, many days early!
	3:09am Sue: How long have you been on? I missed you for an hour or two? I tried to be prompt by 3!
	3:10am Sue: Yes, Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa and Happy Hanukkah! I hope I covered everything.... Happy New Year!
	3:10am Joe: Yes, I got an early start tonight! The snow is swallowing DJs left and right.
	3:12am Sue: What about you?! How are you getting home? Maybe you'll have to cover a triple shift... good for us!
	3:14am Joe: Wow! I HOPE Dan can make it in! I like Christmas music, but even 4 hours is pushing it! I'll be training it...ugh!
	3:17am Sue: Well I guess that's a safer way of getting home. I have to check out the weather report. I don't know when this is supposed to stop. Looks crazy out there. I just woke up to this blizzard. I was all doubtful it was even going to happen. Nice Christmas set!
	3:18am Toronto Jim: I've been enchanted since I started listening 3/4-hour ago. Come to my senses a bit, and I gotta say that I'm floored by this mix — 'cause I'm a fella that fekkin' hates the annual overload of x-mas compilations. But, man! THIS mix has redeemed the whole holiday for me.
	3:21am Toronto Jim: Umm, looking at the time signature on the show, I guess I haven't been "enchanted" for quite as long as I'd professed. So — eighteen minutes, then. Goes to show you just how "enchanted" I am at this juncture in time.
	3:25am Joe: Hey, Toronto Jim! Thanks for the swell words--that makes it all worth it to know I got someone over the Xmas music hurdle!
	3:25am Toronto Jim: I once got an homage/parody of Thomas's poem, called "A Child's Christmas in Scarborough." Quite charming it was, actually. People from Toronto will understand the potential subtexts.
	3:27am Toronto Jim: Thanks for the kind welcome, Joe. Seriously: Xmas music can really get on one's tits, eh? Yours is far better, as I've said.
	3:29am Sue: I agree with Toronto Jim. I really hate Christmas normally but Joe makes it bearable somehow.
	3:30am Toronto Jim: I take this long reading by Thomas to be a signal — a beacon, if you will — summoning me to have a wee whisky.
	3:32am Toronto Jim: Aaaaaah... that's better.
	3:36am Toronto Jim: Hi Sue: I know what you mean. Xmas can be a drag. I have been more or less successful, in recent years, in simply not letting it make me anxious anymore. I take it in stride nowadays, and if I'm late for a family gathering or some such, I apologize and forget about it. "Cause I realize now that it ain't no big deal. (I had another whisky there...)
	3:37am Joe: I'm a wee bit jealous, TJ--some Xmas whiskey sounds niiiice....just like Auntie Hannah with her port!
	3:40am Toronto Jim: Port for her, was it? A nice Xmas drink. My mum always went for lemon-flavoured gin. My dad likes Drambuie for Xmas. Yesterday evening, I had something odd: it was an Xmas party at a bar, but they had no egg nog. So I improvised and had a kahlua and rum with table cream. Pretty close to the "xmas" flavour I was aiming at. Whisky's good too. So good, in fact...
	3:42am Joe: And parsnip wine~!
	3:43am Toronto Jim: PARSNIP wine?! Where were you raised, my boy? Appalachia?
	3:43am Toronto Jim: ...or the Ukrainian steppe?
	3:44am Toronto Jim: Papua New Guinea?
	3:45am Toronto Jim: Seriously, though: how does it taste? I'm intrigued. Got a bottle of Niagara peach wine here for some rainy day. That's quite good.
	3:47am Joe: I don't really know! That's another one of Auntie Hannah's tipples in the story. Niagra peach wine sounds great!!
	3:49am slugluv1313: PARSNIP wine??? sounds like some Eastern European concoction to me! . . still a BLIZZARD out there! and YUP! WFMU's DJs sure have a way with thee Xmas music . . . TOTALLY helps one to HEAL from the worst case of BAH-HUM-BUGS brought on by waaaaaaay too much "lite-FM" type CRAP with which one is inundated this time of year!!!
	3:49am Toronto Jim: That prog-rock Biafran conflict xmas tune blows my mind. I've got friends who are guaranteed to wet themselves when I play them the archive.
	3:50am Sue: Are you doing Single File at the regular time?
	3:53am slugluv1313: Toronto Jim, okay, how did i miss this?? what is this "prog-rock Biafran conflict xmas tune" of which you speak???
	3:54am Joe: Hey, TJ--that May Blitz track IS pretty amazing. Definitely two sides to the same day. Sue, I think I will do Single File at the regular time. I hope you can hold on!
	3:55am Toronto Jim: slugluv1313: That "May Blitz" track — "The 25th of December." Evidently from their misnamed album "The 2nd of May."
	3:56am Sue: Oh yeah, of course. I didn't know if you were doing two b/c of the extended time
	3:57am Joe: I thought about it, but we'll see-maybe it will be longer tonight if it feels good!
	3:59am Toronto Jim: It's always longer when it feels good, Joe.
	4:08am Joe: I totally agree with you, TorRRRonto!
	4:09am Sue: Oh my god, I was just thinking of asking you to play this song, seriously! It's been in my head, woo hoo!!
	4:11am Joe: That's so excellent, Sue! Loretta Lynn has so many outstanding Xmas songs that it's hard to pick, but this is my current favorite...
	4:11am Toronto Jim: It may be too late for a request, but à la Sue, I've been thinking of one for a bit. Do you have anyone doing Woody Guthrie's "1913 Massacre"? Arlo did it, I'm sure, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot did a rendition at the '69 tribute to Woody. It is an Xmas song...
	4:13am Sue: I know what the song's about, but she has the sexiest voice
	4:14am Joe: Toronto, your wish is my command. Woody Guthrie soon to come up...
	4:15am Toronto Jim: Wheeee!
	4:31am Toronto Jim: Thank you so much, Joe, for the Massacre. As fun as everything is, it's also good for all of us to remember capitalist injustices. No better time to do it, in a way...
	4:33am Toronto Jim: I've been reading the topmost early posts, and I'm sorry that I haven't acknowledged your terrible blizzard! Here, it's barely cold, no wind, no snow to speak of. You have my condolences, Joe, Sue, and all others blanketed.
	4:35am Sue: Thanks Jim!
	4:39am Joe: It's a real winter wonderland, here, Jim. I hope I make it home one of these days!
	4:39am Toronto Jim: I can remember once when the first blizzard of the year came to T.O. and a couple friends and I dropped acid and wandered all about the streets, knee-deep in that softest powdery kind of snow — the freshest. ...So go ahead, Sue: while you're looking out the window — take drugs!
	4:40am Toronto Jim: Is that the FREE DESIGN?? You've outdone yourself, Joe!
	4:42am Sue: How did you know? :)
	4:43am Toronto Jim: Simply adore the Free Design. Their sound is alternately perfect for flaky winter storms and for gistening summer afternoons.
	4:45am Toronto Jim: Umm, "glistening," if you please.
	4:48am Joe: I agree totally, Jim. I have a nice later Xmas FD single on white vinyl I may try to slip in a little later...
	4:49am Toronto Jim: Please do slip it in, Joe! I'm sure I've never heard it, and I may never will if you don't play it! (And I didn't make any jokes about Joe's "slipping it in.")
	4:52am Sue: Oh my god, you guys are outta control!
	4:54am Joe: I'm actually not sure if it's a remake of their earlier "Christmas Is the Day" or the original, but either way, it's a great song, so I'll try to "get it on"!
	4:55am Sue: This is a total x-rated christmas
	4:55am Toronto Jim: Excellent. Just introduce the "needle" to the "groove."
	5:00am Sue: I love your trucker song. Man, I'm normally such a humbug, but you're all gettin me in the spirit
	5:02am Toronto Jim: The organ breaks have been cracking me up all along. (But kinda nightmarish too, in a David Lynch kind of way.)
	5:02am Toronto Jim: Don't say "beaver"!
	5:06am Joe: Yay, I'm getting Sue in the spirit! This song ought to kill it!
	5:13am Toronto Jim: Isn't it amazing what computers can do those days?
	5:16am KUMA: 33rpm!!
	5:19am Toronto Jim: Ah! That Free Design. Thanks a lot, Joe. I'm with Sue: you're making the holiday bearably merry!
	5:22am Joe: Aw, shucks. :)
	5:28am Toronto Jim: Got to be part of a trilogy, right? No self-respecting prog-folk flautist would do a song about the "ghost of Christmas past" without also doing the other two ghosts.
	5:29am Toronto Jim: Mum! Look! Mum, come quick! Look! It's the... snowploughs!
	5:35am Joe: Hey, I wonder! That would be great if Steve did two other tunes on the theme. Somebody get him on the horn!
	5:37am Toronto Jim: My Lord, this is... very weird indeed. Fabulous.
	5:40am Toronto Jim: This is weird too.
	5:41am Joe: Happy Birthday, Little Savior!
	5:42am Toronto Jim: It's Xmas after all — we all gotta tolerate the Christers for a while.
	5:54am Toronto Jim: Still listening, Joe (and loving it every moment). But retreating from the keyboard with an open-ended ticket to Slumbertown. G'night folks! Here's hoping your Xmas is as smirkingly lovely as Joe's set tonight.
	5:59am KUMA: Thanks for amazing show ! I will listen this show again with my girlfriend, at Christmas time ^-^
	6:00am Joe: Thanks for listening, everybody! I had a blast. Merry Christmas to you all!
	11:24am Sue: Wow, when you played Loretta Lynn, I was hoping you'd also play the other one I've had in my head and listening again, I realize that you played the Lord Executor song in the earlier part of the show!! Yippee! Stellar xmas show!!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 20, 2009

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