Holiday Music Special with Alonso Duralde redux

Episode notes

The Albums:
Vince Guraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Andy Williams’ The Andy Williams Christmas Album (1963)
Stax Records’ Christmas in Soulsville (2007)

Heat Rocks was hyped to have film critic Alonso Duralde (The Wrap), one of the hosts of Maximum Fun’s movie podcast Who Shot Ya? guest with us to talk about our favorite Christmas songs, holiday fare, songs that should play when it’s cold outside, baby.

We visit the canon of Christmas music over the years (Andy Williams 1963 The Christmas Album, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas and Stax Record’s 2007 compilation Christmas In Soulsville and across genres and styles – crooners, sweeping orchestral cinematic pieces, summer songs vs. winter songs, modern Christmas traditions, etc.

Don’t be a grinch. Listen to this wintery wonderland of an episode about favorite Christmas tracks.

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Show Tracklisting

Andy Williams: The Christmas Song
The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping
The Shins: Wonderful Christmastime
Tracey Thorn: Snow
Yogi Yorgesson: I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas
Boyz II Men: Let It Snow
Band-Aid: Do They Know It’s Christmas
Andy Williams: O Holy Night
Andy Williams: Kay Thompson’s Jingle Bells
Andy Williams: It’as The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Andy Williams: Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Andy Williams: White Christmas
Vince Guraldi Trio: Christmas Time is Here (Vocal)
Vince Guraldi Trio: Christmas Time is Here (Instrumental)
Vince Guraldi Trio: My Little Drum
Vince Guraldi Trio: What Child Is This
Vince Guraldi Trio:Skating
Vince Guraldi Trio: Hark, The Herald Angels Ring
Otis Redding: Merry Christmas Baby take 1
The Staple Singers: Who Took The Merry Out of Christmas
Albert King: Santa Claus Wants Some Loving
The Emotions: Black Christmas
Isaac Hayes: The Mistletoe and Me
Booker T and the M.G.’s: Winter Wonderland take 2
Nate Dogg: Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto
Little Johnny Taylor: Please Come Home For Christmas
Juice Crew: Cold Chillin’ Christmas
The Free Design: Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas)
Kenny Bobien: O Come Let Us Adore Him

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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In this episode...

Oliver Wang

Host

Morgan Rhodes

Host

Christian Dueñas

Producer

Guests

Alonso Duralde

About the show

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