Happy Freakin' Holidays Playlist

It's December 1 -- time for the annual celebrations, people! Let's start by raising a glass to the unification of Transylvania, birthplace of Sylvania televisions. And transsexuals, duh.

It's also time to find out how the greater metropolitan blog world celebrates some of the other, less well-known December holidays. Behold NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays, a tour of urban goodies in list and link form. The WFMU contribution, courtesy of Otis Fodder, is a playlist packed with 80 tracks that will either make you freak out or keep you from freaking out, depending on your metabolic set point.

Holiday Freak In (2002) and Holiday Freak Out (2006) are compilations Otis pulled together for his special people, and now you're a special person, too. A guy who really likes Christmas music liked them a lot. You can read that guy's interview with Otis and commentary while you download. Cuz that's gonna take a while.

Downloads, track lists, and details on NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays after the jump.

Holiday Freak In (MP3)

01  Roger Roger - Jolly Bells
02  Gordon Thomas - Merry Christmas
03  The Sounds Extraordinare - Take A Ride On Santa's Rocket
04  Northern Telecom - I Want An OC192 For Christmas/The 12 Days Of Christmas
05  Chinese Kids Choir - Hark The Herald Angels Sing
06  Oscar The Grouch - I Hate Christmas
07  Danger Woman - Sleigh Ride
08  Karen Gathercole - Come and Join the Celebration
09  Alain Marcoux - Noël j'ai mal au coeur
10  Red Coffee (Quacky The Singing Duck) - Ducky Christmas
11  Major Bill Smith and Nancy Nolte - Happy Birthday Jesus
12  Inpatient Music Therapy Program, Univ of Michigan Medical Center, Children's Psychiatric Hospital - Jingle Bell Rock
13  Les Poppys - September Noir December Blanc
14  The Greenbergs - Sleepy
15  Bathing Beauty - Christmas Tears
16  Ethel Smith - Jingle Bells
17  Otis Skillings - Love Can Work A Miracle
18  Raymond Scott Quintette - Christmas Night In Harlem
19  Eddie Davis - A Recorded Christmas Message for Reverend W. Simmons
20  Les Intimes - C'est Noel
21  Inpatient Music Therapy Program, University of Michigan Medical Center, Children's Psychiatric Hospital - Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
22  2 Live Jews - Sabbath Night
23  Mae West - Santa Come Up and See Me Some Time

Featuring the sequeway talents from Jan & Dean, Marc Bolan, The Cast of Bonanza, Tabloid Radio, The Seventh Day Adventist Church, Flo Price, and Susie & Allie possessed by Tammy Faye Bakker.

Contributions from Miss Amy, Dana Countryman, The Greenbergs, Karl Hoffman, The Bomarr Monk, Dr. Faustus, Narkspud, Oddio Overplay, Pastor McPurvis, B.C. Sterrett, Jef Stevens, Mimi La Twisteuse, and April Winchell. Compiled by Otis Fodder, with love to you and yours this winter season.

Holiday Freak Out -- Disc 1 (MP3)

01  A Visit From Santa Claus!
02  Milton Delugg & The Little Eskimos - Hooray For Santa Claus
03  Sam Ulano - The Story Of Santa Claus
04  Corporal Blossom - White Christmas
05  The Ventures - Snowflakes
06  Fred Lowery - Letter To Virginia
07  Arthur Lyman - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
08  National Lampoon - Kung-Fu Christmas
09  Bobby 'Boris' Pickett - Monsters' Holiday
10  Mae West - From Mae To You
11  Katie's Kitchen - Holiday Ring Mold
12  The Kaisers - Merry Christmas, Loopy Lu
13  Annette & Frankie - The Night Before Christmas
14  Martin Mull - Santafly
15  The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
16  Stan Freberg - Green Christmas
17  The Caroleer Singers - Christmas Cookies and Holiday Hearts
18  Toni Stante - Donde Esta Santa Claus
19  Margo Guryan - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
20  Kimi & Ritz - Merry Christmas Baby
21  The Misletoe Disco Band - Sleigh Ride
22  Wayne Newton - Jingle Bell Hustle
23  Sy Mann - Jingle Bells
24  The Border Brass - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
25  Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol - All Alone In The World
26  Ferrante and Teicher - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
27  Buchanan & Goodman - Santa and the Satellite (Part 1)

Holiday Freak Out -- Disc 2 (MP3)

01  The Free Design - Now Sound Christmas Introduction
02  Swingerhead - I'll Be Home For Christmas
03  The Blue Hawaiians - Have Yourself A Quiet Little Christmas
04  The Brave Combo - O Holy Night Cha Cha Cha
05  Billy May - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo
06  Tammy Faye Bakker (Susie & Allie) - Jingle Bells
07  Kirsten & Heather Mayne - Silver Bells
08  Little Marcy - Suzy Snowflake
09  Wild Man Fischer - I'm A Christmas Tree
10  Esquivel - Frosty The Snowman
11  Mel Torme - Good King Wenceslas
12  Johnny Cash - The Little Drummer Boy
13  Franklyn MacCormack - I Like Christmas
14  Jimmy Mitchell - Eres Tu
15  Star Wars Christmas - R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
16  Spike Jones - Christmas Island
17  Robert C. Pritikin - I Sawed Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
18  Buchanan & Goodman - Santa and the Satellite (Part 2)
19  Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis
20  The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
21  Neil Innes - Dear Father Christmas
22  Ricky Segall - All I Want To Ask Santa Claus
23  The Ladmo Trio & The LaChords - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
24  The Surfaris - A Surfer's Christmas List
25  Jan & Dean - Frosty The Snowman
26  The Grasshoppers - Santa Claus, Rudolph and Us
27  Red Sovine - Here It Is, Christmas
28  The Carpenters - Merry Christmas, Darling (Live 1978)
29  Herman Apple - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
30  A Visit From Santa Claus!

Contributions from Michelle Boule, Dana Countryman, Decibal Dennis, and B.C. Sterrett. Compiled by Otis Fodder, with love to you and yours this winter season.

NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays

Brooklyn Based - Home for the Holidays
Give and Get NYC - Tis The Season to Volunteer
the improvised life -  unwrapping the holidays
Manhattan User's Guide - The Gift Guide
Mommy Poppins - Offbeat and Multicultural Family Holiday Events
NY Barfly -  It's the Holidays, Time to Drink
NewYorkology - Big-ticket holiday shows: Nutcracker, Rockettes, Wintuk
offManhattan - Ten Holiday Getaways Near NYC
Patell & Waterman's History of New York - A little history with your holidays
the skint - 30 days of skintmas - a cheap (or free!) holidays-in-nyc-treat for every day of the season
The Strong Buzz - Holiday Eats Old and New
WFMU Beware of the Blog - Happy Freakin' Holidays Playlist
Walking Off the Big Apple - The Thin Man Walk: A New York Holiday Adventure with Nick and Nora Charles

P.S. Otis didn't want any credit, so if you see him, act like this never happened.

Comments

[r4 dsi]

I hate Mother's Day. Not only is my husband forgetful, but he doesn't really care about holidays the way that I do, and unfortunatly, the golden rule, "treat people the way you want to be treated" doesn't always apply! So my high expectations for how Mother's Day (and all other holidays) should be, combined with my husbands lack of enthusiasm for holidays, equals me hating Mother's Day!

[kris]

NY Barfly link doesn't work - has an 11 where there should be a 12.

[Amanda]

All links should be working now--thanks!

[Richard]

Thank you for posting these!

[paul]

oh nice, i haven't heard that Grasshoppers song in years. hysterious!

[tilly t]

oh. my. god. i love you. really.

[Claude Brindamour]

I will steal from you and put these songs on my own holiday special at CKRL FM, Quebec City !

This is good stuff that we have to listen to from time to time because cheap christmas music is everywhere and is making me craaaazzy !

L'Homme Scalp

[Sixx Deville]

2 thumbs up for all 3 playlist (especially disc 2).

Song Placements

[Steve Barton]

"...and now you're a special person too." Thank you 'Happy' Harry Cox!

-- Steve Barton
Dunwoody, Georgia

[Matthew Shiver]

Hey, is there any more Bathing Beauty out there? And if so, where can I score some?

[Some Guy Who Likes Music]

Here's another song on YouTube (one of those songs with a generic cd cover),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arj0lY2zx8w

As far as I know Bathing Beauty is a studio concoction from various musicians affiliated with the Siesta Records label (out of Madrid, Spain).

You can order the highly recommended Christmas CD here,

http://siesta.es/pags/banda_discos.asp?codBanda=160

It's not a normal holiday CD, very sunshine pop oriented and covers of some obscure 80's songs.

Siesta is a great label to support, completely indie, and with a great roster of artists.

[Some Guy Who Likes Music]

Ahhh, and after checking further, it seems the Xmas comp on Siesta is out of print. You might try writing Siesta and they may have somewhere where you can buy it from a online store (mp3s) - http://siesta.es/pags/contacto.asp

The release is,

fantasia de navidad - http://siesta.es/pags/disco.asp?codigoSiesta=160

[Gheard]

I know a hundred people who will love this site!

[Dean]

sounds like you had fun did you get yourHolidays online
great songs list