The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 47 19.12.21: The Back Streets of Christmas with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 47 December 19th 2021 3-5pm

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With Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive

Christmas Back Streets

Popular music is all about the new – relationships, experiences, being young and single and dancing. Christmas music is about homecoming, nostalgia, looking back to a more innocent time in life.The best songs are pretty old. Most were written in the 1970s and earlier, and many of the original versions of those songs were released long before.They usually have short, repetitive lyrics and standard themes. They don’t even really have to make a lot of sense. Mel Tormé’s “A Christmas Song” is just a litany of images: chestnuts roasting, Jack Frost nipping, carolers, mistletoe, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. And we love it.

The two most prolific artists are Michael Bublé and surprisingly, the acappella vocal group Pentatonix who have had 16 songs in the Billboard Top 100, one more than Bublé. So where are the new Christmas classics?

Wham’s Last Christmas is at No 8. Is there a better version of it?

We play some of the less travelled songs..

Hour One

Lucy Dacus – Last Christmas (Single 2019)

Reliant K – Sleigh Ride (Let It Snow, Baby… Let It Reindeer 2007)

Chuck Berry – Run Rudolph Run (Single 1958)

Julian Casablancas – I Wish it was Christmas Today (Phrazes for the Young 2009)

Courteeners – Winter Wonderland (Single 2015)

Glasvegas – A Snowflake Fell (and it felt like a kiss)  4.23 (A Snowflake Fell and it felt like a Kiss 2008)

Snow Patrol – When I Get Home for Christmas (Single 2010)

Smashing Pumpkins – Christmas Time (Single 1997)

Mogwai – Christmas Song (Out of our Heads on Skelp 2003)

Calexico – Gift X-change (Selections Road Atlas 1998-2011  2011)

Marika Hackman – Driving Under Stars (Wonderland 2016)

Leona Naess – Christmas (Leona Naess 2003)

Purple Mountains – Snow is Falling in Manhattan (Purple Mountains 2019)

Katzenjammer ft Ben Caplan – Fairytale of New York (Single 2011)

Hour Two

Cat Power – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Single 2003)

This is the Kit – Christmas Time is Here (Christmas Time is Here 2016)

Elliphant – North Star (Bloody Christmas (Single 2015)

Lisa Hannigan – Snow (At Swim 2016)

Julien Baker – A Dreamer’s Holiday (Single 2020)

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Etiquette 2006)

Renaissance – Northern Lights 3.59 (A Song for all Seasons 1978)

Katey Brooks – All of Me Heard the Bells of Christmas e (Single 2020)

Mew – Snowflake (A Triumph for Man 1997) Denmark

Joni Mitchell – River 4.05 (Blue 1971)

The Staves – Home Alone, Too (Home Alone, Too OST 2018)

First Aid Kit – Fireworks (Ruins 2018)

Ane Brun – First Day of Christmas (Single 2019)

Smith & Burrows – This Ain’t New Jersey (Funny Looking Angels 2011)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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