Happy Holidaze, Part Three

 

 

CHRISTMAS HAIKU:
Did you get a tree
No, it's more like a large plant
But it still has balls 

 

For about four or five years, about ten or fifteen years ago, I tended bar with my friends Bobby and Dan at the annual Christmas party for The Nation. Man, those writers could drink! It was a fun gig for those years, but the one thing that has stayed with me from those parties was something the doorman in the building said.

As I waited in the lobby for Bobby, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms came piping through the sound system. I said to the doorman, "Man, you must have heard this 25 times today. How can you stand it?" He said, "Naw, baby. It's nice. It's only for a little while each year."

 

Here is your third and final playlist for this Holiday Season. I hope you dig it, if only for a little while each year.

TRACKLIST

Ring-A Ding-Ding- Frank Sinatra
The Wedding- David Bowie
Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas- The Candy Butchers
Feliz Navidad- The Fab Four
Such A Night- Elvis Presley
Forecast- Jeff Lynne
Here's That Rainy Day- The Modern Jazz Quartet
Cold Weather- Mark Johnson
Christmas In Suburbia- Martin Newell
Out In The Country- Three Dog Night
Silver Bells- The Supremes
I Want An Alien For Christmas- Fountains Of Wayne
So It Goes- Cheap Trick
Waltz For Debby- Allen Toussaint
The World We Live In- Mina
April 5th- Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash & Kris Kristofferson
Donde Esta Santa Claus- Los Lobos
Home By Now- Aimee Mann
I Believe In Father Christmas- Greg Lake
I Dream Of Christmas- Anita Dobson & Brian May
Old Town- Phil Lynott
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)- Darlene Love
Fairytale Of New York- The Pogues & Kirty MacColl

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