Deck The Halls – Julie Andrews / How Not To Drown – Chvrches & Robert Smith / 2000 Miles – The Pretenders / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Ghosts Of Christmas Past / Is There Something I Should Know – Duran Duran / Home For The Holidays – Carpenters / Black & Gold – Sam Sparro / Sleigh Ride – Ella Fitzgerald / Eden – Sarah Brightman Marshmallow World – Johnny Mathis / Don’t Talk To Me About Love – Altered Images / I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard / After The Love has Gone – Princess / December Will Be Magic Again – Kate Bush / Good Enough – Melanie C / Merry Christmas Everyone – Slade / Love’s Got A Hold (Scott Featherstone Remix) – Kym Sims / Santa Can You Hear Me? – Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande / I Love To Love (12″ Disco Remix) – Tina Charles / Silent Night – Stevie Nicks / Tonight… – Dead Or Alive / O Christmas Tree – Aretha Franklin / I Just Can’t Wait Til Christmas (Rob Moore Remix) – Sheena Rose & Gypsy Love / Frozen (2021 Re- Edit Assembly Cut) – Marco Middlesex / Sleigh Ride – Debbie Gibson / Dreams – Bernadette Bohan / In Private – Dusty Springfield / Christmas At The Davenports – From “Female Trouble’ Film Soundtrack / Mary’s Little Lamb – James Darren
Please join us tonight (Sunday) at 8pm, as we share highlights from the first set and all of the second set of April 6, 1971, from a newly circulated Betty board.
Please join us tonight (Sunday) at 8pm, as we share the majority of the first (known) soundboard of a wonderful Garcia & Grisman concert from December 9, 1991: I Ain’t Never | Grateful Dawg | Two Soldiers | Louis Collins | Shady Grove | Friend Of The Devil | Walkin’ Boss | When First Unto This Country | Trouble In Mind | Sweet Sunny South | Tell It To Me | So What | Off To Sea Once More | Sitting In Limbo | Russian Lullaby | Dreadful Wind And Rain | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
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Every year leading up to my Annual Annual, I suffer and strain to decide on a year I want to focus on. This year was no different. Do I want to reach back pre-1970? How about something a little more recent, like the lost year of 2020? I asked for suggestions, and a bunch flew my way, but the one that really stuck came from my buddy, and teaching colleague, Eric, who suggested 1978. The emergence of English post-punk, metal was evolving, funk was redefining itself against a backdrop of too much disco. There is a lot to choose from when it comes to 1978.
I took at least a week to pour over my options. In the end I sat with approximately four hours of music to fit into about an hour forty minutes, mixed with talk and highlights from the year. I tried to mix it up, and keep you on your toes. I really appreciate all of the many comments that kept coming during the show, and I’m sorry I didn’t take any requests. Shows like these are pretty well mapped out by the time I flip the switch.
Take a look at the playlist below, and click the link up above to stream or download this bad boy.
If you’re interested in the previous 10 editions of my Annual Annual, take a look below.
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The Finkelstein Shit Kid/Up In Smoke: Cheech and Chong
On Top Of The World: Cheap Trick This Year’s Girl: Elvis Costello and the Attractions
B-Movie Box Car Blues/Flip, Flop and Fly: Blues Brothers Every 1’s A Winner: Hot Chocolate Baltimore: Nina Simone
Annalisa: PIL You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla): The Dickies What Do I Get? Buzzcocks Teenage Kicks: The Undertones Warrior in Woolworths: X-Ray Spex
Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now: Ry Cooder That’s The Way The World Goes ‘Round: John Prine Snake Song: Townes Van Zandt Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis: Tom Waits
Radebe: Johnny Dyani Lanquidity: Sun Ra Hong Kong Garden: Siouxsie and the Banshees
One Nation Under A Groove: Funkadelic The Robots: Kraftwerk Ca Plane Pour Moi: Plastic Bertrand
The Green Manalishi: Judas Priest (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures: The Rezillos Time Will Tell: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Radio Valencia is co-presenting Flipper, December 30th and 31st at Bottom of the Hill. This is going to be two incredible shows. Yours truly is MCing December 30th, featuring comedian Neil Hamburger, and Mike Watt and the Missingmen. New Years Eve has Neil Hamburger and SF punk luminaries VKTMS!!! Go to the Bottom of the Hill website for tickets and more information. Radio Valencia will be in house with lots of freshly printed t-shirts just for you!
Get stranded with me again at 2pm PST for the encore broadcast of the first of last December’s podcasts, starting with this gem and at the grand finale a duet with me and Ella Fitzgerald!
We’ll be back with a brand new live episode which will be broadcast from my new home studio this Sunday, tech gods permitting!I hope you enjoy this festive chestnut of holiday love!
