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