Playlist Corner: Happy New Year!

HAPPY 2021!! As I'm sure you agree, may it be a safe, kinder new year.

But more specifically, in the words of Tony Camargo in El Año Viejo (I will never tire of this), I hope it brings you:

"a little goat,

a very black little mule,

a very white little mare,

and a nice mother-in-law."

You know - what really counts.

PLAYLIST NOTES

1) Ella Fitzgerald - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

2) The Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

3) Tony Camargo - El Año Viejo

4) Bing Crosby - Let's Start The New Year Right

5) Jo-Ann Campbell - Happy New Year Baby

6) The Cast - Auld Lang Syne

A beautiful version with the likely original melody.

7) The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year

One of the most perfect songs. Tenderly and perfectly used in The Middle.

8) The Kinks - Skin and Bone

A joyful anti-Atkins, anti-New Year Resolutions song.

9) Charles Brown - Bringing in a Brand New Year

10) Waterson:Carthy - New Year Carol - Residue

11) Sam Cooke - I Wish You Love

12) Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Barbaro - Look Around the Corner

13) Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy New Year

14) Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - New Year's Resolution

15) Nina Simone - Feeling Good

16) The Walkmen - In the New Year

17) Regina Spektor - My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)

#newyear #jazz #ska #Mexico #pop #rock #rhythmnblues #folk #soul

Playlist Corner: Winter - Part 2, The Warm Up

 Part 2 is here! After the shivery tracks of the Winter Playlist Part 1, I hope this warms you up. Lots of cozy sounds. Best enjoyed with a hot drink

Winter Playlist - Part 2, The Warm Up

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BE3KE7PsqjYFTQ03EPnN0

PLAYLIST NOTES

Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)

The Mills Brothers - December

Chet Atkins - Winter Walkin'

Julie London - Warm December

Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes

Alma Cogan - Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo

Fountains Of Wayne - Valley Winter Song

Bernard Herrmann - By The Fireside

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Winter Wonderland

Fontaines D.C. - Winter In The Sun - Darklands Version

Ted Heath - Hot Toddy

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter

Benny Goodman - Winter Weather (feat. Peggy Lee) - 78rpm Version

Tom Hanks - Hot Chocolate

Connie Francis - I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

Ella Fitzgerald - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

#winter #playlist #christmasmusic #christmasplaylists #festiveplaylists #seasonal #winterwonderland #WinterMusic #wintersongs

Also available at:

https://www.facebook.com/mikichristmasplaylists/posts/703209303670956

Playlist Corner: Winter - Part 1, The Shiver

It begins!!! Christmas began early for everyone this year, and thank fuggles for that.

This December I'll be having lots of mini-playlists alongside this year's main Christmas playlist, because why not. And I'll be re-uploading the old links soon, as I know they're out of date.

But enough admin! Here's the first playlist of the season. Enjoy!!

Winter Playlist - Part 1, The Shiver

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fUv6fONukAbpFJcva4Vl5

Part 2 - The Warm Up will be coming soon 

Go for a shivery walk and a listen.

PLAYLIST

1) Tim Rose - Snowed In

2) Georgy Sviridov - The Snowstorm: II. Waltz

3) Aztec Camera - Walk out to Winter

4) Antti Paalanen - Winter's Dance

5) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

6) Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating

7) Billy May - Snowfall

8) Al Petteway - Roving on a Winter's Night

9) Headless Heroes - The North Wind Blew South

10) Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia antartica [No. 7]: V. Epilogue (Alla marcia moderato, non troppo allegro)

11) Lidia Ruslanova - Valenki, Valenki

12) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers

13) Bellowhead - Cold Blows The Wind

#winter #playlist #christmasmusic #christmasplaylists #festiveplaylists #seasonal #winterwonderland #WinterMusic #wintersongs

Also available at:
https://www.facebook.com/mikichristmasplaylists/posts/701498923841994

Awful Audio Advent Calendar

(yeah, I know it's not every day, but I don't have enough awful music... yet)

SHeDaisy - Deck The Halls

Now, I thought the song was pretty terrible - until I saw the video, which revealed an almost ambitious multi-level awfulness.

There's the ugly harmonies, the weird expression of the singers (are they happy? sexy? creepy? all three?), Disney characters, plus an old lady having a nervous breakdown as she unleashes some black magic around herself and transforms herself into a child. Something like that.

Enjoy!

Awful Audio Advent Calendar

Christmas is coming, and I'll be getting fat, alongside making my annual playlist for friends and family.

The thing is, going through all of that music to find gems also means coming across some real horrors.

Which I also want to share, but for very different reasons.

Welcome to the Awful Audio Advent Calendar.

To start with - Jingle Bells mixed with the worst acid trip anyone's ever had.

The Jingle Bells remix from The Santa Clause