We weren't much for holiday music around the house growing up, although Mom would have WQXR literally booming through the house every day like clockwork. WQXR is the radio station of the New York Times, emanating from from the heart of the Big Apple and at such volume would shake the paintings on the wall in our living room all the way down the East Coast to the Jersey Shore. It was (and still is) a classical music station with the requisite news breaks on the hour. Its playlist became the soundtrack for the house...Schubert, Mozart, Liszt mixed in there along with, at times, Woody Guthrie and other "classical" folkies. You'd never hear, for example, the Elvis Christmas record, or the Sinatra one, or the Bing Crosby one, or the Fred Astaire one...it was, and still is in her house, all classical -- all the time. So, it took me back recently to realize that I actually did have a December/holiday season favorite -- and it's this Beatles BBC Sessions LP. Here 'tis, the brilliantly funny, still sunny Beatles sending up the proper Brit announcer then blasting out a standard, an original, or a favorite Chuck Berry composition. And each Christmastime like clockwork, this slides out from the stacks and becomes the most frequented LP of the season. I mean, what's Christmas without catching up with some dear, dear friends?
The Beatles - Riding On A Bus (Chatter) (Mp3)
The Beatles - Carol (Mp3)
The Beatles - I Feel Fine (Mp3)
The Beatles - Long Tall Sally (Mp3)
The Beatles - Lucille (Mp3)
The Beatles - Sha La La La La! (Chatter) (Mp3)
The Beatles - Slow Down (Mp3)
The Beatles - Some Other Guy (Mp3)
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride (Mp3)
The Beatles - You Really Got A Hold On Me (Mp3)
