Thanks Harold and Merry X-Mas Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
Misc –
REQ:Request
BED:Music Played Whilst Talking
NEW:New Release
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Comment:
The first three tracks today, then the next set are suggestions from Faithful Listener Harold. also later, most of the first few sets of the Christmas/ Holiday music.
Gavin Edwards lists this album at # 19 in Rolling Stone's "40 Essential Christmas Albums" list - "Harris has always sung like an angel, and on this 1979 album she played the part, a living herald of joyful Nativity tidings."
Billed as 'Jimmy Hanna WITH The Dynamics' / They were from Seattle, WA, and morphed into "The Springfield Rifle". Click on the Link above, Left to view the original single.
Time:
4:24
Artist:
PH Phactor [1st time artist played on WMBR (by track-blaster)]
Song:
Barefoot John [Their only record; B-side of 'Minglewood Blues']
* - Full title: ' Mindblowing Encounters Of The Purple Kind! (16 Obscure American Sixties Garagepunkers With A Psychedelic Flavour)' // Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
Her full name was Patti (or Patty) Anne Mesner; she was the stepdaughter of the label's owner. / Hollywood Flames are rumored to sing on this // Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
The Drifters version made the R&B charts in: 1954, 1955, 1956; lso the Pop charts in 1955, 1960, 1962 / * - In aggregate, the best-selling recording of all-time
* - AS the B-side of 'Merry Christmas Baby' // After several songs from her 1993 "Hide" EP ended up on VH1, Karlzen became the network's most-played independent artist of all time. // Click on the Link above, left to view the CD.
Time:
5:50
Artist:
Root Boy Slim [Billed as 'Root Boy Slim And The Sex Change Band With The Rootettes']
Original Grateful Dead bass player Phil LESH died Oct 25th, at age 84. / Song was also known as "Cold Rain and Snow" - an American murder ballad; it first appeared in print in the 1917 compilation "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians".
* - Originally by Darlene Love, on the compilation album "A Christmas Gift To You" (Nov 22nd, 1963/ Philles Records /// Click on the Link above, left to view the original album.
* - in England, the B-side was 'Fast Or Slow (The Law's The Law)' / The album's title of "Learning to Crawl" was given in honor of Chrissie Hynde's then-infant daughter, Natalie Rae Hynde / // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the English single, with a colour picture sleeve
* - The orchestral version was first recorded in 1949 by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, a hit record on RCA Victor Red Seal, and now one of the orchestra's signature songs. The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950. // Click on the Link above, to view the original album.
