Playlist For Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018: Finally Pine Cones. Finally Holly Berries. Finally Christmas!

It's Broadway Christmas...finally! Whew. I thought we'd never get here! I felt like I was the only DJ on Jazz 90.1 not making with the Fah La Las and the Ho Ho Hos. Otto did 3 hours of Christmas music yesterday, and he'll be playing 3 hours of it THIS Sunday. Me? Well, Broadway has less Christmas music than you'd think. I have to steal from Hollywood (there's something new!?!), and use a fair share of novelty songs (Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer), and even then I'm lucky to get 2 hours of stuff I'll air. Standards and all that. Still, Christmas Dragnet. (I draw the line at Cheech and Chong.)

And it's starting to get Holiday Bizzy! I mean, with the drummers drumming and swans a-laying and the eggnog nogging? And having an outfit for EACH OF THESE THINGS? Man, I am booked. So I'll wish you a wonderful holiday now, so you'll be covered, okay? Tune in on the 23rd for lots of Christmas music you probably HAVEN'T been hearing on the other stations...cuz it's Broadway and only WE understand it, right?

And have yourself a merry little...well, you know THAT song! XO


Happy Holiday/Let Yourself Go (Brian d'Arcy Jeffry Denman, White Christmas
Overture (Instrumental, Irving Berlin's White Christmas)
We Need A Little Christmas (Angela Lansbury, Mame)
Twelve Days To Christmas (Ensemble, She Loves Me)
Three Wishes For Christmas (Tony Yazbek, Ensemble, Gypsy)
Lovers On Christmas Eve (Joanna Gleason, James Naughton, I Love My Wife)
Be A Santa (Sydney Chaplin, Subways Are For Sleeping)
Five Pound Box Of Money (Pearl Bailey)
Surabaya Santa (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom
      Lehrer)
Sisters (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (Danny Kaye, White Christmas)
Snow (Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Trudy Stevens, White
      Christmas)
Count Your Blessings (Instead Of Sheep)(Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney,
      White Christmas)
White Christmas (Company, White Christmas)
Merry Christmas (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings)
Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of Year (Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can)
Hard Candy Christmas (Pamela Blaire, Delores Hall, Ensemble,
      Best Little Whorehouse In Texas)
Christmas Day (Ensemble, Promises Promises)
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Karen Morrow, Bryan d'Arcy James,
      Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, White Christmas)
Holiday Season (Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Home For Christmas)
A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer, More Of Tom Lehrer)
The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas (Allan Sherman, For Swinging Livers Only)
Talk Christmas, Cool Yule (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings/Holiday In Plaid)
Nothin' For Christmas (Eartha Kitt)
Turkey Lurkey Time (Donna McKechnie, Margo Sappington,  Baayork
      Lee, Promises Promises)
Johnny, It's Cold Outside (Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Home For Christmas)
Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige, Fred
      Gwynne, Here's Love)
Catered Holiday (Ensemble, Plaid Tidings/Holiday In Plaid)
Christmas Dragnet (Stan Freberg, Daws Butler)
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Leslie Odom, Jr., Simply Christmas)
Christmas Mem'ries (Barbra Streisand, Christmas Memories)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.,
      Etc. Live At Carnegie Hall, The Rest Of It)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)