25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Gifts of Maggie” by Jo Ann Worley
Here’s to all the Cousin Maggies out there keeping things weird at the holidays.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “In The Bleak Mid Winter” by Bert Jansch
We’ve come to the shortest days of the year, which are great when accompanied by Bert Jansch’s spare but warm version of a carol from the 19th Century.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Christmas In Vietnam” by Private Charles Bowens
Probably don’t lead with this at your holiday singalong.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “(Merry Christmas) We Must Be Having One” by Tammy Wynette
if this was almost any other singer, you’d think to yourself what a sweet scene this song is painting. But this is Tammy Wynette, and in her songs, you don’t find love without also finding more turbulent feelings close by.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Christmas Time Is Here Again” by the Flirtations
The Flirtations are Americans, but they’re much better known in the UK. Our loss!
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Vive le vent” by Renée Martel
After a hard day for my hometown, I’m choosing a song from one of my favorite times in 2024.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Christmas with Mike Gravel” from Red State Update
An actual presidential candidate, one who’d been up on the debate stage with the heavy hitters, dressing up as Santa Claus, spiking the punch and pretending to throttle one of the main characters, all to a parody version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” by Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin’s version of “Rudolph” goes way off the usual course; at one point he just starts naming famous New Yorkers.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)” by John Denver
I thought we could use a cheerful number in the middle of the countdown, and I think I got mixed up.
25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Little Drummer Boy” by Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra
Why wasn’t there a sitar player at the first Christmas? Maybe there was and the drummer drowned them out?