As winter closes in, and the holiday season approaches, we discuss the strange ritual of listening to Christmas music for just one month a year.


There’s got to be a German word for this. It’s that feeling, that first second, when you heard Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.

Show notes:

Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
Bruce Springsteen: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Do They Know It’s Christmas
We Are the World
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa (video)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Apple Music Christmas Playlist
Die Hard
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
I Wish it Could Be Christmas (article)
The Kinks: Father Christmas
Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: I Believe in Father Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Roomful of Blues: Roomful of Christmas

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