Tell Me What You Want For Christmas - The 2014 Christmas Compilation

And so we come to the end of 2014, otherwise known as either The Year We Lost A Boatload of Great Actors or The Year We Lost Whatever Patience We Had Left With A Militarized Police Force, Racial Profiling, The Justice System, You Name It.  Either one of which (but especially the latter) can put a stake of holly in the heart of anyone’s Christmas cheer.

So here’s something musical to help turn that frown upside down—music to lift your spirits over the next couple of weeks—music to trim your tree to (if you haven’t done that already)—music to wrap your gifts to (and I KNOW you haven’t done that already)—music to make you  feel the warmth of Shane McGowan’s Birthday  The Day James Brown Died  The Night We Bombed The Crap Out of Hanoi  Christmas.

 

 

Enjoy, and Haddy Grimble, everybody.

You can find the songs below in a zip file here

01 Tell Me What You Want For Christmas  -  Chris August

02 I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas  -  Leann Rimes

03 Christmas List  -  Vic Mulkey and the Blue Veins

04 Full Service Santa  -  Vic Mulkey and the Blue Veins

05 Santa's Got a Zoot Suit  -  Dave Rudolf

06 Poppa Santa Claus  -  Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

07 Santa's Party  -  Nick en Simon

08 The Party's Still Going On  -  Marcia Ball

09 Christmas People (Radio Edit)  -  Naguale

10 On Christmas  -  Dum Dum Girls

11 Jingle Bells  -  The Minions

12 Goin' Up To Bethlehem  -  Bob Rivers

13 Good King Wenceslas  -  Fab Four

14 Make it So  -  Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise

15 Hannukah In Las Vegas  -  Richard Cheese

16 Joel the Lump of Coal  -  The Killers

17 Unwed Mother  -  Hoyle

18 Let It Fall  -  Over The Rhine

19 Autumn Carol  -  Leigh Beery et al

20 In The Bleak Midwinter  -  John Fahey

21 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening  -  Allen Leech

22 Let It Go  -  Pentatonix

23 Imagine  -  Emeli Sande

24 Make It Rain, Dear  -  Maggie Chapmen

25 My Reindeer Got Drunk  -  The Wise Men

26 Don't Need A Reindeer  -  The Moody Blues

27 Sleigh Me  -  Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler

28 Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy)  - Duke Ellington

29 All My Christmases  -  Jillian Edwards

30 Christmas Day Blues  -  Cephas & Wiggins

31 Talkin' Christmas  -  Taj Mahal & The Blind Boys Of Alabama

32 Rum-Rum-Bells!!!  -  Los Temblooores

33 On Christmas Day (Radio Edit)  -  Magnum

34 Christmas Madness  -  The Rocket Summer

35 Being Alone At Christmas  -  Miss Montreal

36 The Ice of Boston  -  The Dismemberment Plan

37 BONUS TRACK