To hear the Sunday, December 21 edition of my radio show, "
Variety Is the Spice of Life" -- an impromptu Christmas special -- check out the link on my
radio show archives page or the direct download link below.
The December 21 show will be hosted on the WMUC website until it is overwritten beginning at 12 noon U.S. ET on Sunday, December 28.
"Variety Is the Spice of Life" radio show, Sunday, December 21, 2008
- Direct download perma-link for winter 2008-09:
http://wmucradio.com/stream_ripper/sun/Variety_is_the_Spice_of_Life_1200_1500.mp3Artist - Song - Label
Sesame Street Festival Orchestra - Sesame Street Christmas Overture - Children's Records of America
Coldcut - Coldcut's Christmas Break - Ahead of Our Time (UK) / Big Life (UK)
Sesame Street Ensemble - We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Children's Records of America
[beginning of Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2006 Mix] Binky Griptite - Stone Soul Christmas - Daptone
Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' - Stax
Kool Moe Dee & the Treacherous Three - Christmas Rap - Sugarhill
Stevie Wonder - Happy Holiday Message - Motown
Otis Redding - White Christmas - Atco
Freddie King - I Hear Jingle Bells - Odeon
Clarence Carter - Backdoor Santa - Atlantic
Average White Band - Cut the Cake - Atlantic
Mickey & the Soul Generation - Chocolate - CaliTex
Quincy Jones - Something's Cookin - MCA
The Jackson Five - We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Motown
Booker T & the MG's - Jingle Bells - Stax
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Jingle Bells - CBS
Lou Rawls - Little Drummer Boy - Capitol
Cannonball Adderley - Capricorn - Capitol
Albert King - Cold Feet - Stax
B.B. King - Help the Poor - ABC
August Darnell - Christmas on Riverside Drive - Ze
Vicki Anderson - If You Don't Give Me What I Want (I Gotta Get It Some Other Place) - King
[N.B.: two tracks from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2006 Mix inadvertently omitted] Curtis Mayfield - Get Down - Buddah
Bobby Byrd - Drugs Don't Need No Help
Rotary Connection - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
[end of Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2006 Mix] [beginning of excerpt from the 1975 album "Merry Christmas from Sesame Street"]Sesame Street Ensemble - "Deck the Halls" Medley - Children's Records of America
Oscar the Grouch - I Hate Christmas - Children's Records of America
Mr. Hooper, Ernie, and Bert - A Christmas Story - Children's Records of America
Bert and Ernie - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Children's Records of America
Sesame Street Ensemble - The Twelve Days of Christmas - Children's Records of America
Sesame Street Ensemble - "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" Medley - Children's Records of America
David - The Night Before Christmas on Sesame Street - Children's Records of America
Maria and Luis - Saludo - Children's Records of America
Maria and Luis - Arrurru - Children's Records of America
The Count - (All I Want for Christmas Is) My Two Front Teeth - Children's Records of America
Sesame Street Ensemble - A Christmas Pageant - Children's Records of America
Sesame Street Ensemble - Keep Christmas with You (All Through the Year) - Children's Records of America
[end of excerpt from the 1975 album "Merry Christmas from Sesame Street"]John Denver and the Muppets - The Twelve Days of Christmas - RCA
[beginning of excerpt from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2005 Mix] Dr. Rubberfunk - Praise Yuletide Intro - GPS (UK)
Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Xmas - BBE (UK)
De La Soul - Simply - Tommy Boy
Stevie Wonder - One Little Christmas Tree - Motown
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis - London / Profile UK
Soul Saints - Santa's Got A Bag Of Soul - Jazzman
Rufus Thomas - Funky Penguin - Stax
[end of excerpt from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2005 Mix]
[beginning of excerpt from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2007 Mix] Dr. Rubberfunk - Sleigh Ride Intro
Rufus Thomas - I'll Be Your Santa - Stax
The Temptations - This Christmas - Motown
Rotary Connection - Christmas Love - Cadet Concept
Ernie K-Doe - Here Come The Girls - Soul Jazz
Staple Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? - Stax
[end of excerpt from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2005 Mix]
[beginning of excerpt from Dr. Rubberfunk's Funky Christmas 2005 Mix] The Temptations - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Motown
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin' - Mercury
For winter 2008-09, the show airs live on WMUC on Sundays from 12 noon to 3 p.m. U.S. ET.
(There is no show on Dec. 28; the show will return Jan. 4.)
- Direct links to WMUC's live broadcast:
96 kbps:
http://www.wmucradio.com/wmuc-high.m3u32 kbps:
http://www.wmucradio.com/wmuc-low.m3u- More info on tuning in live online:
http://www.varietyisthespice.com/online.html Christine Moritz
www.varietyisthespice.com
