An all-new holiday celebration that is at once Christian, Hebraic, Kwanzaic, Solsticial, Pagan, Dutch, Gaelic, NSA-cent, Comedic, Firesignish, Pythonish, Ratpackian, Lennonesque. Dylanesque, Devotional, Tchaicovskian and, above all, Earthwatchian!
Including a trenchant commentary on the "color" of Santa, the origins of "Black Peter," and the cultural revisionism of that "Duckin' Dynasty."
Holiday musical selections and satirical performances include:
Wendy and Lisa, Closing of the Year, Kwanzaa Celebration Song, Stevie Wonder â Thatâs What Christmas Means to Me, Sammy Davis, Jr.- It's Christmas Time All Over the World, Bing Crosby â White Christmas, Elvis Presley â Blue Xmas, Monty Python â Christmas in Heaven, Stevie Wonder â The Bell for Freedom, A Very Special NSA Christmas â with ACLU, Richard Eskow and Dartanion London, An Earthwatch Commentary on Xmas colors and Duckinâ Dynasties,, Emma Kopp on the Dutch origins of âSenterklaasâ and âBlack Pietâ, Bob Dylan â Must Be Santa , Firesign Theatre â âToad Awayâ, The Maccabeats - Candlelight Hanukkah, The Mediaeval Baebes - We Three Kings, The Temptations - Little Drummer Boy, Karina Skye - The 13 Days of Solstice, Frank Kelly â The 12 Days of Christmas, Irish Style, Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a, and |John Lennon - Happy Xmas [War Is Over].
Anchor: Robert Knight Origin: WBAI/Pacifica Contact: rknight@wbai.org
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