WFMU: Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 20, 2021

Listener comments!
	🥁 11:55am βrian: Hello, Irene and fellow green-bottle flies.
	11:57am listener james from westwood: Good Monday, Irene, βrian, and all! I have lentil-veggie soup in the slow cooker on this frosty final day of fall. Big loaf of rye sourdough waiting for it to finish as a +1.
	🥁 11:57am Sean in Bristol UK: Good evening Irene, hello one and all, so looking forward to this seasonal show, holiday music that turns me from a Grinch to a holiday hugathon
	12:00pm doctorjazz: Hi Irene and folks out in Drummerland!
	12:01pm Sylvia: Hello Irene and all
	12:02pm Irene Trudel: Happy, happy day to you, βrian, james, Sean, doctorjazz, Sylvia and all listening in. Trying to get us all in the holiday mood with today's show.
	🥁 12:02pm Sean in Bristol UK: Bon Noel, Sylvia
	🥁 12:04pm βrian: Clay really should be in on this interview.
	🥁 12:05pm Brian in UK: Hello Irene. The new No.9?
	12:06pm Sylvia: thank you, Sean! Merry Christmas & Joyeux Noel!
	12:07pm Irene Trudel: Hi Brian! I think this is the continuation of No. 9!
	🥁 12:09pm WR: Hello Irene and drummer streamers. Surprised that I no idea that the Beatles xmas messages were released on LP, wonder if it was just through the fan club because I do not remember ever seeing it in a store.
	12:09pm melinda: hi friends
	12:10pm Webhamster Henry: All non-major key / Ionian mode carols please.
	12:10pm Peter K.: This is by far my all-time favorite version of "Silent Night." Happy Holidays, all!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Micros!!!!! Great!!!!!
	12:11pm annie: Melinda!!
	🥁 12:12pm Michael 98145: Hello, friends. On this 354th day of another strange year.
	12:12pm coelacanth∅: hi Irene and others
	12:12pm doctorjazz: Probably very little chance of another Micros reunion any time in the foreseeable future, sadly...
	12:13pm Irene Trudel: Hey WR, melinda, WHenry and Peter! WR, The Beatles Christmas Album might not have been an official release. I got it in the early 1970s, and although it's on the Apple Label on the back cover it says, "Not For Sale." Maybe sent just to radio stations?
	12:15pm doctorjazz: I do believe they sent the Beatles Christmas messages to radio stations-i remember hearing them, but also never saw them for sale
	12:15pm coelacanth∅: ...i didn't hear that beatles track today, but -it's not one of the fan club discs?
	🥁 12:15pm Michael 98145: Happy Solstice Eve
	12:16pm Webhamster Henry: Swinging Night Before Christmas 1950s "rap", by Schmidt & Jones: jhhl.net...
	🥁 12:17pm Sean in Bristol UK: YES, Michael 98145, we start gaining daylight!
	12:18pm coelacanth∅: hey dr.j Thanks for Sun Ra! i haven't taken it yet but glanced at it -been pretty busy but i'm looking forward to that...a lot!
	12:18pm Irene Trudel: Welcome annie, Michael and coelacanth∅. That was indeed one of the Beatles Fan Club messages-- the last one, in fact.
	12:24pm coelacanth∅: oh the last one John & Yoko heavy and bizarre and probably concerned a few people who joined the fan club when they bought "she loves you"!
	🥁 12:26pm Sean in Bristol UK: A set of seasonably epic proportions, Irene, thank you
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: Thanks Sean! More to come...
	12:28pm melinda: I like this. Thought it was someone imitating the Beatles at first.
	12:29pm annie: i miss yoko's full-page NYT christmas ads i saved every one
	12:29pm Webhamster Henry: Shonen Knife have a Christmas record! 40th year for them!
	12:31pm annie: irene any recordings of that christmas short story of john's ... the title escapes me.
	12:34pm annie: at first i thought is was Mrs Miller!!
	12:34pm Irene Trudel: WHenry, I'll have to check those Shonen Knife messages later. annie, I don't think I ever saw those ads. Somewhere I may have that short story but can't locate it quickly. Maybe next year.
	🥁 12:34pm Brian in UK: Tiny Tim, take his crutch away.
	12:36pm Webhamster Henry: Melachrino and surface noise and skips! Yeah!
	🥁 12:36pm Sean in Bristol UK: Holiday season has arrived, George M with the skip, wonderful
	🥁 12:38pm Michael 98145: stay healthy, everyone
	🥁 12:38pm Brian in UK: I had Workingman's Dead on record and I knew exactly on which tracks it jumped. When I bought a CD copy, I was waiting for the skips which never came.
	🥁 12:42pm Michael 98145: heh. can't use a watercolor brush to nudge a laser to the next groove ...
	🥁 12:44pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:44pm Webhamster Henry: Dan Hicks is festive, no matter the holiday!
	12:45pm Webhamster Henry: We had a skip near the end of Abbey Road, and any other way sounds wrong.
	12:46pm doctorjazz: BiUK, now you can bit a 200 gm, audiophile copy of Workingman's Dead for $50, and get those skips right where they were
	12:46pm Irene Trudel: Michael, that was my actual LP. I could've pushed it gently but the skip is the point! There are other LPS in my collection where I remeber where all the skips are, WHenry. Anyone else have a favorite skip?
	🥁 12:47pm Michael 98145: celebrating generosity library.osu.edu...
	🥁 12:47pm Sean in Bristol UK: Irene, you have turned a thumps down to a thumps up concerning this most wonderful time of the year
	12:48pm Webhamster Henry: Irene Listeners are probably aware of the WFMU lock groove premium record "Running In Place" www.discogs.com...
	12:49pm Webhamster Henry: Nancy & Mark are old friends who also live here in Kingston.
	🥁 12:52pm Michael 98145: this is nice
	🥁 12:53pm Brian in UK: doctorjazz that would be nuts.
	12:55pm doctorjazz: I like Calls Bley's Musique Mechanique, on which she recorded fake skips (it's written into the piece). Otherwise, it's not a sound I want to hear.
	12:59pm Irene Trudel: WHenry, I know Nancy and Mark from The Music Faucet days.
	🥁 12:59pm Brian in UK: These comments remind me of Monty Python's 'Record Shop' on Matching Tie & Handkerchief.
	12:59pm Peter K.: "Calls Bley"??
	🥁 1:00pm Brian in UK: Would that be Carla Bley?
	1:00pm doctorjazz: Carla Bley, autocorrect on phone...
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: @Irene: I remember tihs as being on Doug's show, but it was definitely on WFMU: That one short record where the narrator tells a cautionary story of someone becoming a dope fiend and criminal before icing a family member for drug money (Spazz plays this now and again), began skipping on the phrase "they were smokin' marijuana." Absolutely perfect skip.
	1:04pm Stork: Frohe Weihnachten aus Deutschland!
	1:09pm Stork: Last day of Autumn actually
	1:09pm TDK60: Hi Irene.
	1:09pm Webhamster Henry: 'n Guten Rutsch, Störchchen!
	1:10pm annie: they weren't ads, they were writings from the "John Lennon, in his Own Write."book., i just cannot bring the title of the story .... dammit, i'm old!!!! aaarrgghhh! i'll think about it tonight..
	1:12pm Stork: Is Little Brown Jug (now playing behind Irene) really a Xmas song?
	1:14pm Stork: Danke danke, und Dir auch, Webhamster Henry!
	1:16pm Listener Robert: Hi, folks, glad to be electrocardioverted and back home in normal sinus rhythm.
	1:18pm listener james from westwood: Oof, seconding the gladness, Robert.
	1:19pm Stork: Kiss me, I'm bosstered tody, with yummy Moderna!! Why am I asking myself how I can better serve Bill Gates, all of a sudden? Hmm...
	1:19pm Listener Robert: The bottle tree reminds me of my favorite decoration, which was the Coca-Cola Santa Clauses. They were cardstock flats hung from a wreath in the background that came on the bottles.
	1:20pm Stork: correction: "today" - not tody.
	1:21pm Listener Robert: Maybe a toady of Bill Gates.
	1:22pm Listener Robert: By whom you were bosstered.
	1:23pm annie: beatlesnumber9.com... such a small book, yet so much has been made out of it.. it does NOT contain the story i want..they've definitely torn THAT estate apart..
	1:23pm Stork: @Listener Robert: you mustn't make fun of our leader!!
	1:25pm Stork: Aw, hell the vaccine has destroyed my minimal typing crapabilities, I mean... oh, just ignore me.
	1:25pm doctorjazz: How did Bill Gates get into the middle of this? Maybe Elon Musk is behind it all...
	1:29pm Irene Trudel: Hey Summer and Michael and Sylvia, Stork and Robert! I'm falling behind in my greetings today. Glad you've been boosted, Stork!
	1:31pm Webhamster Henry: Gonna pull out stuff from the Bar-None HELLO Family Santa Special? Fits in well here!
	1:34pm melinda: enjoying the holiday tunes
	1:40pm TonyR: Amyone else feeling the bass in their butt on that Rickie Lee Jones number?
	🥁 1:40pm TonyR: This playlist color scheme! Well!
	🥁 1:44pm Sean in Bristol UK: Lucky enough to see Rickie in St Georges Hall, Bristol, late 2019, seems like another era
	🥁 1:44pm TonyR: Ah! Plastic bottles. Mystery solved.
	1:44pm TDK60: I know where that is Irene! I pass by there often. 73rd Street & Broadway, right?
	🥁 1:46pm TonyR: The unofficial FMU Android app is REALLY GOOD about putting substitutions right at your fingertips.
	🥁 1:46pm TonyR: FAHEY!
	🥁 1:47pm Michael 98145: yes
	1:48pm Irene Trudel: Yes TDK60! It's across from what's called Verdi Square, a block away from Fairway. Kind of an impressive way of recycling soda bottles.
	1:49pm TDK60: Irene, I just thought of an album you might like. A Robin Williamson one "Winter's Turning" from 1986. Not Christmas songs, but older British winter songs.
	🥁 1:49pm WR: Fat Boy John!
	1:50pm Peter K.: John Fahey's "Christmas Fantasy" = sheer beauty.
	🥁 1:50pm TonyR: Fahey was a looker when he was young.
	1:53pm TDK60: Irene, I sometimes will sit in Verdi Square, by the 72nd St. subway station. Quite a crossways of people there.
	1:56pm listener james from westwood: I miss people watching. Especially in cities. My old workplace in Midtown, near Radio City and the Diamond District, was sensational for a peaceful few minutes of observation between work sieges.
	2:02pm Irene Trudel: TDK60, I don't have that Robin Williamson album handy but have another that fits.
	🥁 2:05pm WR: Sorry if my outburst seemed disrespectful to Fahey who had early on used Blind Joe Death as a nom de gitarre. Love all his recordings that I've heard and respect the work he did to document, proselytize and encourage the music of others.
	2:09pm Irene Trudel: WR, no slight taken! He was indeed quite fat at the end of his life. Stork had him in as a guest once when he hosted shows on the WFMU Mothership.. Fahey was in poor shape in those days. But I adore his playing!
	🥁 2:18pm Michael 98145: another great show today
	2:19pm Stork: @TDK60: we used to go cop dime bags in Verdi Square back in the early 90's. It was really dicey, as there were always sting operations going on. For dime bags!! Those were the Very Bad Old Days.
	🥁 2:20pm TonyR: If there's no skipping, it ain't High Fidelity.
	2:26pm TDK60: Stork: Ha! Thanks for the story.
	2:26pm Peter K.: Peter Walker is 83. Long may he pick!
	2:29pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, Ireneophiles!
	🥁 2:30pm TonyR: Good afternoon, Mr. Schulkind!
	2:33pm Stork: That Fahey encounter was a bit bizarre, and he was in bad shape. His diabetes was already pretty advanced. He was funnier and cannier - and nicer - than you might expect at that stage. I have some very strange recordings from that day. Musically it was pretty much a zero, but he enjoyed speaking into the reverb-soaked microphone I set up for him. He took on a (kiddingly) godlike persona and was hilariously irreverent toward John Allen who was trying to interview him. I recently found those recordings. I have to air some of the best parts some day.
	2:34pm Peter K.: Anyone who is irreverent to John Allen is all right with me.
	2:35pm Stork: Don't get me started, Peter K.
	2:40pm doctorjazz: This Kate Anna and family track is lovely!
	🥁 2:42pm Michael 98145: ... by Jackson Browne (?)
	🥁 2:42pm Michael 98145: Stiff !
	2:43pm Stork: Every German under 40 can sing along with Jona Lewie!!
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks, Irene, Peter, Happy Holidays!
	🥁 2:44pm TonyR: Yes. Thanks, IT! Smells like Christmas to me!
	2:44pm Irene Trudel: Howdy Doug! Stork, thanks for that Fahey story. I know you've told it to me before but it still makes me smile.
	2:46pm Peter K.: Joseph Spence is the true meaning of Christmas.
	2:47pm Stork: @Irene: you might remember that not everyone was so nice to John F. when he came to visit. No names, but I still get pissed when I remember. He was super-weird, but quite sweet.
	2:49pm Irene Trudel: At least you were there to appreciate him, others aside. And Peter, it definitely wouldn't be a Christmas show without Joseph Spence. His vocals aside, also a great guitarist!
	2:49pm doctorjazz: Spence is fun, and can obviously play, but his guitar often sounds out of tune to me.
	2:50pm Stork: Wait...guitars can be TUNED?!
	2:51pm doctorjazz: These days they can almost tune themselves...
	🥁 2:52pm Michael 98145: ☑ i am not a robot
	2:53pm TDK60: I need a guitar like that doc jazz! hee.
	2:55pm Stork: I'm getting sentimental over Vince Guaraldi. The Charlie Brown Xmas tree that flopped over when he hung the ball on it! Okay, I'm gettin' dewey-eyed over here.
	2:55pm Doug-o-phile: hey doug!!
	🥁 2:55pm Michael 98145: lovely music indeed
	🥁 2:56pm Michael 98145: Thank you, again, Irene
	2:56pm Irene Trudel: Thanks to all of you for hanging out with my holiday show! Always helps me get in the spirit. I'll be back next Monday with my annual Favorites of 2021show at noon. Have a SAFE holiday celebration and stay tuned for Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: wfmu.org...
	🥁 2:56pm WR: Thank you Irene!
	2:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Up next, the super-great sound collage inspiration, "Everything Has Always Been There" (and there goes the world: getting better and better, thanks to you. thank you) ...here on this Drummer stream, momentarily! Join hither: wfmu.org...
	2:57pm Stork: What a sweet Xmas show! Thans Irene - and merry Xmas, Irene and Peter!!!🎄
	🥁 2:57pm Sean in Bristol UK: Thank you, Irene, wishing you Happy Holidyys
	2:57pm TDK60: Thanks, Irene.
	2:58pm skyline chili: Good show today Irene, thanks.
	🥁 2:59pm chris in the redwoods: delurking to say thanks, Irene, for the great tunes. happy holidays to you and to all. :)
	2:59pm john eck: Thanks, Irene! Have a good Christmas everybody!
	🥁 3:00pm Michael 98145: To the Solstice and Beyond
	3:00pm listener james from westwood: Be well and be safe, Irene and all! Lovely stuff!
	🥁 3:00pm Bas NL: Thanks Irene! Have a good Christmas!
	🥁 3:00pm Sean in Bristol UK: Happy Christmas listeners
	3:01pm Irene Trudel: Thanks skyline chill, chris, john and Bas, all getting in at the end, Happy Holidays all!
	🥁 3:02pm Brian in UK: Thanks Irene for all you do. Best wishes to you & Peter.

Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 20, 2021

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December 20, 2021: A holiday (less than) spectacular.

Green plastic bottle Christmas tree, 73rd & Broadway, NYC 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
The Beatles	The Beatles Christmas Message - 1969	The Beatles Christmas Album	Apple Records
The Microscopic Septet	Silent Night	Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play The Blues	Cuneiform Records	0:07:32 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis feat. Bob Dorough	Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)	Jingle Bell Jazz		0:13:51 (Pop-up)
Aimee Mann	Whatever Happened to Christmas?	One More Drifter in the Snow		0:16:29 (Pop-up)
Jethro Tull	Christmas Song "Christmas Song" by "Jethro Tull"	Living in the Past	Chrysalis Records	0:19:16 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3	Have a Holiday, Baby			0:22:11 (Pop-up)
Loudon Wainwright III	I'll Be Killing You (This Christmas)	Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)		0:23:31 (Pop-up)
The Beatles	The Beatles Christmas Message - 1968	The Beatles Christmas Album	Apple Records	0:27:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer /The Skater's Waltz /Adeste Fidelis /I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	0:34:45 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks	Old Fashioned Christmas	Crazy for Christmas		0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Rosine	Last Year's Tree "Last Year's Tree" by "Rosine"	Nancy and Mark Sing Holiday Favorites		0:46:56 (Pop-up)
The Last Town Chorus	Wintering in Brooklyn	Wire Waltz		0:50:12 (Pop-up)
Tony Trischka & friends	Love Came Down at Christmas	Of a Winter's Night	Tony Trischka	0:54:11 (Pop-up)
John Prine	Silent Night All Day Long	A John Prine Christmas	Oh Boy Records	0:57:19 (Pop-up)
Rodney Crowell	Merry Christmas from an Empty Bed	Christmas Everywhere	New West Records	1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer /The Skater's Waltz /Adeste Fidelis /I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	1:05:16 (Pop-up)
The Roches	Christmas Passing Through	We Three Kings	MCA Records	1:15:01 (Pop-up)
NRBQ	Christmas Wish "Christmas Wish" by "NRBQ"	Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album	Rounder Records	1:18:41 (Pop-up)
Hayden Pedigo	Some Kind of Shepherd	Letting Go		1:21:31 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Morning Christmas "Morning Christmas" by "The Beach Boys"	Ultimate Christmas	Capitol	1:29:28 (Pop-up)
Rickie Lee Jones	Christmas in New Orleans	The Other Side Of Desire	Thirty Tigers	1:29:22 (Pop-up)
Ludovico Einaudi	The Snow Prelude N.2	Nightbook		1:34:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer /The Skater's Waltz /Adeste Fidelis /I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	1:38:10 (Pop-up)
John Fahey	Christmas Fantasy - Part II	The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album	Takoma Records	1:46:27 (Pop-up)
Glenn Jones	A Different Kind of Christmas Carol	The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar		1:58:52 (Pop-up)
Robin Williamson & His Merry Band	Wassail	The Merry Band's Farewell Concert at McCabe's	Pig's Whisker Music	2:03:04 (Pop-up)
Wall Matthews	O Come, O Come, Emmanuel	Star of Wonder		2:04:14 (Pop-up)
Heikki Ruokangas and Simo Laihonen	En etsi valtaa loistoa	Joulupuu on rakennettu - Finnish Christmas Songs	Ramble Records	2:07:15 (Pop-up)
Peter Walker	Sacromonte (Sacred Mountain)	Echo of My Soul		2:13:12 (Pop-up)
Leo Kottke	In Christ There is No East or West	Greenhouse	Capitol Records	2:16:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer /The Skater's Waltz /Adeste Fidelis /I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	2:18:33 (Pop-up)
Guy Buttery (w/Mojd. Amjad Khan, Mudassir Khan)	December Poems	One Morning in Gurgaon		2:28:30 (Pop-up)
Montage	Tinsel And Ivy "Tinsel And Ivy" by "Montage"	Montage		2:35:28 (Pop-up)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle & family (Lily Lankin & Martha Wainwright, vocals)	Rebel Jesus	The McGarrigle Christmas Hour	Nonesuch Records	2:37:50 (Pop-up)
Jona Lewie	Stop The Cavalry "Stop The Cavalry" by "Jona Lewie"	(7" single)	Stiff Records	2:41:57 (Pop-up)
Joseph Spence	Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town	Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album	Rounder Records	2:44:52 (Pop-up)
Elise Morris, Sory Ibrahima Diakite, Michele Kaniba Traore	Konotone	LoveIsALove	Jazzbo Records	2:47:42 (Pop-up)
Vince Guaraldi Trio	Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)	A Charlie Brown Christmas	Fantasy	2:51:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug /Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer /The Skater's Waltz /Adeste Fidelis /I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Christmas in High Fidelity	RCA Victor	3:00:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 11:55am βrian: Hello, Irene and fellow green-bottle flies.
	11:57am listener james from westwood: Good Monday, Irene, βrian, and all! I have lentil-veggie soup in the slow cooker on this frosty final day of fall. Big loaf of rye sourdough waiting for it to finish as a +1.
	🥁 11:57am Sean in Bristol UK: Good evening Irene, hello one and all, so looking forward to this seasonal show, holiday music that turns me from a Grinch to a holiday hugathon
	12:00pm doctorjazz: Hi Irene and folks out in Drummerland!
	12:01pm Sylvia: Hello Irene and all
	12:02pm Irene Trudel: Happy, happy day to you, βrian, james, Sean, doctorjazz, Sylvia and all listening in. Trying to get us all in the holiday mood with today's show.
	🥁 12:02pm Sean in Bristol UK: Bon Noel, Sylvia
	🥁 12:04pm βrian: Clay really should be in on this interview.
	🥁 12:05pm Brian in UK: Hello Irene. The new No.9?
	12:06pm Sylvia: thank you, Sean! Merry Christmas & Joyeux Noel!
	12:07pm Irene Trudel: Hi Brian! I think this is the continuation of No. 9!
	🥁 12:09pm WR: Hello Irene and drummer streamers. Surprised that I no idea that the Beatles xmas messages were released on LP, wonder if it was just through the fan club because I do not remember ever seeing it in a store.
	12:09pm melinda: hi friends
	12:10pm Webhamster Henry: All non-major key / Ionian mode carols please.
	12:10pm Peter K.: This is by far my all-time favorite version of "Silent Night." Happy Holidays, all!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Micros!!!!! Great!!!!!
	12:11pm annie: Melinda!!
	🥁 12:12pm Michael 98145: Hello, friends. On this 354th day of another strange year.
	12:12pm coelacanth∅: hi Irene and others
	12:12pm doctorjazz: Probably very little chance of another Micros reunion any time in the foreseeable future, sadly...
	12:13pm Irene Trudel: Hey WR, melinda, WHenry and Peter! WR, The Beatles Christmas Album might not have been an official release. I got it in the early 1970s, and although it's on the Apple Label on the back cover it says, "Not For Sale." Maybe sent just to radio stations?
	12:15pm doctorjazz: I do believe they sent the Beatles Christmas messages to radio stations-i remember hearing them, but also never saw them for sale
	12:15pm coelacanth∅: ...i didn't hear that beatles track today, but -it's not one of the fan club discs?
	🥁 12:15pm Michael 98145: Happy Solstice Eve
	12:16pm Webhamster Henry: Swinging Night Before Christmas 1950s "rap", by Schmidt & Jones: jhhl.net...
	🥁 12:17pm Sean in Bristol UK: YES, Michael 98145, we start gaining daylight!
	12:18pm coelacanth∅: hey dr.j Thanks for Sun Ra! i haven't taken it yet but glanced at it -been pretty busy but i'm looking forward to that...a lot!
	12:18pm Irene Trudel: Welcome annie, Michael and coelacanth∅. That was indeed one of the Beatles Fan Club messages-- the last one, in fact.
	12:24pm coelacanth∅: oh the last one John & Yoko heavy and bizarre and probably concerned a few people who joined the fan club when they bought "she loves you"!
	🥁 12:26pm Sean in Bristol UK: A set of seasonably epic proportions, Irene, thank you
	12:28pm Irene Trudel: Thanks Sean! More to come...
	12:28pm melinda: I like this. Thought it was someone imitating the Beatles at first.
	12:29pm annie: i miss yoko's full-page NYT christmas ads i saved every one
	12:29pm Webhamster Henry: Shonen Knife have a Christmas record! 40th year for them!
	12:31pm annie: irene any recordings of that christmas short story of john's ... the title escapes me.
	12:34pm annie: at first i thought is was Mrs Miller!!
	12:34pm Irene Trudel: WHenry, I'll have to check those Shonen Knife messages later. annie, I don't think I ever saw those ads. Somewhere I may have that short story but can't locate it quickly. Maybe next year.
	🥁 12:34pm Brian in UK: Tiny Tim, take his crutch away.
	12:36pm Webhamster Henry: Melachrino and surface noise and skips! Yeah!
	🥁 12:36pm Sean in Bristol UK: Holiday season has arrived, George M with the skip, wonderful
	🥁 12:38pm Michael 98145: stay healthy, everyone
	🥁 12:38pm Brian in UK: I had Workingman's Dead on record and I knew exactly on which tracks it jumped. When I bought a CD copy, I was waiting for the skips which never came.
	🥁 12:42pm Michael 98145: heh. can't use a watercolor brush to nudge a laser to the next groove ...
	🥁 12:44pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:44pm Webhamster Henry: Dan Hicks is festive, no matter the holiday!
	12:45pm Webhamster Henry: We had a skip near the end of Abbey Road, and any other way sounds wrong.
	12:46pm doctorjazz: BiUK, now you can bit a 200 gm, audiophile copy of Workingman's Dead for $50, and get those skips right where they were
	12:46pm Irene Trudel: Michael, that was my actual LP. I could've pushed it gently but the skip is the point! There are other LPS in my collection where I remeber where all the skips are, WHenry. Anyone else have a favorite skip?
	🥁 12:47pm Michael 98145: celebrating generosity library.osu.edu...
	🥁 12:47pm Sean in Bristol UK: Irene, you have turned a thumps down to a thumps up concerning this most wonderful time of the year
	12:48pm Webhamster Henry: Irene Listeners are probably aware of the WFMU lock groove premium record "Running In Place" www.discogs.com...
	12:49pm Webhamster Henry: Nancy & Mark are old friends who also live here in Kingston.
	🥁 12:52pm Michael 98145: this is nice
	🥁 12:53pm Brian in UK: doctorjazz that would be nuts.
	12:55pm doctorjazz: I like Calls Bley's Musique Mechanique, on which she recorded fake skips (it's written into the piece). Otherwise, it's not a sound I want to hear.
	12:59pm Irene Trudel: WHenry, I know Nancy and Mark from The Music Faucet days.
	🥁 12:59pm Brian in UK: These comments remind me of Monty Python's 'Record Shop' on Matching Tie & Handkerchief.
	12:59pm Peter K.: "Calls Bley"??
	🥁 1:00pm Brian in UK: Would that be Carla Bley?
	1:00pm doctorjazz: Carla Bley, autocorrect on phone...
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: @Irene: I remember tihs as being on Doug's show, but it was definitely on WFMU: That one short record where the narrator tells a cautionary story of someone becoming a dope fiend and criminal before icing a family member for drug money (Spazz plays this now and again), began skipping on the phrase "they were smokin' marijuana." Absolutely perfect skip.
	1:04pm Stork: Frohe Weihnachten aus Deutschland!
	1:09pm Stork: Last day of Autumn actually
	1:09pm TDK60: Hi Irene.
	1:09pm Webhamster Henry: 'n Guten Rutsch, Störchchen!
	1:10pm annie: they weren't ads, they were writings from the "John Lennon, in his Own Write."book., i just cannot bring the title of the story .... dammit, i'm old!!!! aaarrgghhh! i'll think about it tonight..
	1:12pm Stork: Is Little Brown Jug (now playing behind Irene) really a Xmas song?
	1:14pm Stork: Danke danke, und Dir auch, Webhamster Henry!
	1:16pm Listener Robert: Hi, folks, glad to be electrocardioverted and back home in normal sinus rhythm.
	1:18pm listener james from westwood: Oof, seconding the gladness, Robert.
	1:19pm Stork: Kiss me, I'm bosstered tody, with yummy Moderna!! Why am I asking myself how I can better serve Bill Gates, all of a sudden? Hmm...
	1:19pm Listener Robert: The bottle tree reminds me of my favorite decoration, which was the Coca-Cola Santa Clauses. They were cardstock flats hung from a wreath in the background that came on the bottles.
	1:20pm Stork: correction: "today" - not tody.
	1:21pm Listener Robert: Maybe a toady of Bill Gates.
	1:22pm Listener Robert: By whom you were bosstered.
	1:23pm annie: beatlesnumber9.com... such a small book, yet so much has been made out of it.. it does NOT contain the story i want..they've definitely torn THAT estate apart..
	1:23pm Stork: @Listener Robert: you mustn't make fun of our leader!!
	1:25pm Stork: Aw, hell the vaccine has destroyed my minimal typing crapabilities, I mean... oh, just ignore me.
	1:25pm doctorjazz: How did Bill Gates get into the middle of this? Maybe Elon Musk is behind it all...
	1:29pm Irene Trudel: Hey Summer and Michael and Sylvia, Stork and Robert! I'm falling behind in my greetings today. Glad you've been boosted, Stork!
	1:31pm Webhamster Henry: Gonna pull out stuff from the Bar-None HELLO Family Santa Special? Fits in well here!
	1:34pm melinda: enjoying the holiday tunes
	1:40pm TonyR: Amyone else feeling the bass in their butt on that Rickie Lee Jones number?
	🥁 1:40pm TonyR: This playlist color scheme! Well!
	🥁 1:44pm Sean in Bristol UK: Lucky enough to see Rickie in St Georges Hall, Bristol, late 2019, seems like another era
	🥁 1:44pm TonyR: Ah! Plastic bottles. Mystery solved.
	1:44pm TDK60: I know where that is Irene! I pass by there often. 73rd Street & Broadway, right?
	🥁 1:46pm TonyR: The unofficial FMU Android app is REALLY GOOD about putting substitutions right at your fingertips.
	🥁 1:46pm TonyR: FAHEY!
	🥁 1:47pm Michael 98145: yes
	1:48pm Irene Trudel: Yes TDK60! It's across from what's called Verdi Square, a block away from Fairway. Kind of an impressive way of recycling soda bottles.
	1:49pm TDK60: Irene, I just thought of an album you might like. A Robin Williamson one "Winter's Turning" from 1986. Not Christmas songs, but older British winter songs.
	🥁 1:49pm WR: Fat Boy John!
	1:50pm Peter K.: John Fahey's "Christmas Fantasy" = sheer beauty.
	🥁 1:50pm TonyR: Fahey was a looker when he was young.
	1:53pm TDK60: Irene, I sometimes will sit in Verdi Square, by the 72nd St. subway station. Quite a crossways of people there.
	1:56pm listener james from westwood: I miss people watching. Especially in cities. My old workplace in Midtown, near Radio City and the Diamond District, was sensational for a peaceful few minutes of observation between work sieges.
	2:02pm Irene Trudel: TDK60, I don't have that Robin Williamson album handy but have another that fits.
	🥁 2:05pm WR: Sorry if my outburst seemed disrespectful to Fahey who had early on used Blind Joe Death as a nom de gitarre. Love all his recordings that I've heard and respect the work he did to document, proselytize and encourage the music of others.
	2:09pm Irene Trudel: WR, no slight taken! He was indeed quite fat at the end of his life. Stork had him in as a guest once when he hosted shows on the WFMU Mothership.. Fahey was in poor shape in those days. But I adore his playing!
	🥁 2:18pm Michael 98145: another great show today
	2:19pm Stork: @TDK60: we used to go cop dime bags in Verdi Square back in the early 90's. It was really dicey, as there were always sting operations going on. For dime bags!! Those were the Very Bad Old Days.
	🥁 2:20pm TonyR: If there's no skipping, it ain't High Fidelity.
	2:26pm TDK60: Stork: Ha! Thanks for the story.
	2:26pm Peter K.: Peter Walker is 83. Long may he pick!
	2:29pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, Ireneophiles!
	🥁 2:30pm TonyR: Good afternoon, Mr. Schulkind!
	2:33pm Stork: That Fahey encounter was a bit bizarre, and he was in bad shape. His diabetes was already pretty advanced. He was funnier and cannier - and nicer - than you might expect at that stage. I have some very strange recordings from that day. Musically it was pretty much a zero, but he enjoyed speaking into the reverb-soaked microphone I set up for him. He took on a (kiddingly) godlike persona and was hilariously irreverent toward John Allen who was trying to interview him. I recently found those recordings. I have to air some of the best parts some day.
	2:34pm Peter K.: Anyone who is irreverent to John Allen is all right with me.
	2:35pm Stork: Don't get me started, Peter K.
	2:40pm doctorjazz: This Kate Anna and family track is lovely!
	🥁 2:42pm Michael 98145: ... by Jackson Browne (?)
	🥁 2:42pm Michael 98145: Stiff !
	2:43pm Stork: Every German under 40 can sing along with Jona Lewie!!
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks, Irene, Peter, Happy Holidays!
	🥁 2:44pm TonyR: Yes. Thanks, IT! Smells like Christmas to me!
	2:44pm Irene Trudel: Howdy Doug! Stork, thanks for that Fahey story. I know you've told it to me before but it still makes me smile.
	2:46pm Peter K.: Joseph Spence is the true meaning of Christmas.
	2:47pm Stork: @Irene: you might remember that not everyone was so nice to John F. when he came to visit. No names, but I still get pissed when I remember. He was super-weird, but quite sweet.
	2:49pm Irene Trudel: At least you were there to appreciate him, others aside. And Peter, it definitely wouldn't be a Christmas show without Joseph Spence. His vocals aside, also a great guitarist!
	2:49pm doctorjazz: Spence is fun, and can obviously play, but his guitar often sounds out of tune to me.
	2:50pm Stork: Wait...guitars can be TUNED?!
	2:51pm doctorjazz: These days they can almost tune themselves...
	🥁 2:52pm Michael 98145: ☑ i am not a robot
	2:53pm TDK60: I need a guitar like that doc jazz! hee.
	2:55pm Stork: I'm getting sentimental over Vince Guaraldi. The Charlie Brown Xmas tree that flopped over when he hung the ball on it! Okay, I'm gettin' dewey-eyed over here.
	2:55pm Doug-o-phile: hey doug!!
	🥁 2:55pm Michael 98145: lovely music indeed
	🥁 2:56pm Michael 98145: Thank you, again, Irene
	2:56pm Irene Trudel: Thanks to all of you for hanging out with my holiday show! Always helps me get in the spirit. I'll be back next Monday with my annual Favorites of 2021show at noon. Have a SAFE holiday celebration and stay tuned for Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: wfmu.org...
	🥁 2:56pm WR: Thank you Irene!
	2:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Up next, the super-great sound collage inspiration, "Everything Has Always Been There" (and there goes the world: getting better and better, thanks to you. thank you) ...here on this Drummer stream, momentarily! Join hither: wfmu.org...
	2:57pm Stork: What a sweet Xmas show! Thans Irene - and merry Xmas, Irene and Peter!!!🎄
	🥁 2:57pm Sean in Bristol UK: Thank you, Irene, wishing you Happy Holidyys
	2:57pm TDK60: Thanks, Irene.
	2:58pm skyline chili: Good show today Irene, thanks.
	🥁 2:59pm chris in the redwoods: delurking to say thanks, Irene, for the great tunes. happy holidays to you and to all. :)
	2:59pm john eck: Thanks, Irene! Have a good Christmas everybody!
	🥁 3:00pm Michael 98145: To the Solstice and Beyond
	3:00pm listener james from westwood: Be well and be safe, Irene and all! Lovely stuff!
	🥁 3:00pm Bas NL: Thanks Irene! Have a good Christmas!
	🥁 3:00pm Sean in Bristol UK: Happy Christmas listeners
	3:01pm Irene Trudel: Thanks skyline chill, chris, john and Bas, all getting in at the end, Happy Holidays all!
	🥁 3:02pm Brian in UK: Thanks Irene for all you do. Best wishes to you & Peter.

Irene Trudel: Playlist from December 20, 2021

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