About this episode
Our most mirthful musical meeting of each year- holiday music collector Andy Cirzan's spectacular yearly collection of strange tunes. This year the theme is song poems, which came from an odd corner of the music industry that hired studio musician to transform customers' poems into songs- for the right price.
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Featured Songs:
Lenny Dee, "Sleigh Ride," Happy Holi-Dee, Decca, 1961
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
Randall Dienna, "The Snowman Song," (Single), unknown, unknown
Amelia Ferencz, "Bright Star Shining In The Sky," (Single), unknown, unknown
Eugenia Adams, "I’m Santa Claus," (Single), M.S.R., unknown
Beatrice Seira, "Stranger In The Manger," 1978 Christmas Album, M.S.R., 1978
Donald J. Nason, "Green Christmas Blues," (Single), Unknown, Unknown
Unknown, "Santa Claus is Comin' (Electro Cheese)," (Single), Unknown, unknown
Raymond F Moberly, "What Is Christmas?," 1977 Christmas Album, M.S.R., 1977
Dick Kent, "Is Santa The Man In The Moon?," (Single), M.S.R., unknown
Cara Stewart , "On Christmas Eve," (Single), Blue Moon, unknown
George Kovacs, "Merry Christmas Someone," (Single), unknown, 1963
Sue Meadows, "My Christmas Tree," (Single), unknown, 1970
Lenny Dee, "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer," Happy Holi-Dee, Decca, 1961
Heather Noel, "Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile," (Single), unknown, 1974
Bobbie Boyle (w/ the Sisterhood), "Santa Claus Goes Modern," Peace Is A Song To Cherish, M.S.R., unknown
The Sisterhood, "The Rocking Disco Santa," (Single), M.S.R., unknown
Mary White, "Rudolph Pouts," (Single), Cowtown, 1960
Boygenius, "20," the record, Interscope, 2023
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