Santa's North Pole Radio

Santa's North Pole Radio

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Santa's North Pole Radio episodes

  • Herbie Koch - Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Harmonia Symphonic Orchestra - Adeste Fidelis and Henry Mancini - We Three Kings of Orient Are

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:09 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:38 Herbie Koch - Good Christian Men, Rejoice
    4. 3:36 Harmonia Symphonic Orchestra - Adeste Fidelis
    5. 6:38 Henry Mancini - We Three Kings of Orient Are
    6. 10:02 Santa on Sears Electronics Sale (commercial)
    7. 10:17 Sears Electronics Sale (commercial)
    8. 10:47 White Christmas
    9. 12:59 Bing Crosby - Segment 5
    10. 13:26 Glen Campbell - Pretty Paper — Willie Nelson wrote "Pretty Paper" in 1963, and after playing it for Monument Records producer Fred Foster, the song was given to Roy Orbison who made it a hit. Nelson recorded his own version of the song in November 1964.
    11. 15:44 Santa on Shari Lewis - Sleigh Ride
    12. 15:53 Shari Lewis - Sleigh Ride
    13. 17:32 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    14. 17:42 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Let It Snow
    15. 19:42 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
    16. 22:51 Stan Freberg & Yogi Yorgesson - Nuttin' for Christmas — A novelty Christmas song recorded by Stan Freberg and Yogi Yorgesson in 1952, featuring a mischievous child confessing to various pranks and misdeeds committed throughout the year, set to a comedic narrative about why Santa should skip their house.
    17. 25:07 Santa on Christmas Dinner
    18. 25:17 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Christmas — The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American group that started in Long Beach, California in 1966. Since 2018, the band has included Jeff Hanna and his son Jaime Hanna as guitarists and vocalists, along with Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, Ross Holmes, and Jim Photoglo.
    19. 27:21 Ray Conniff - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
    20. 29:41 Mavis Staples - Christmas Vacation — Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist who was named one of the "Greatest Singers of all Time" by Rolling Stone. She became famous as a member of the Staple Singers, her family's band, and is now the last surviving member of the group, which recorded hit singles including "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again". She released her self-titled debut solo album in 1969.

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    33 min
  • Deck The Halls, The Wise Men - My Reindeer Got Drunk and Hal Greene - O Holy Night

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:10 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:33 Deck The Halls
    4. 3:47 The Wise Men - My Reindeer Got Drunk
    5. 4:00 Hal Greene - O Holy Night
    6. 8:27 Santa on Country Christmas
    7. 8:36 Loretta Lynn - Country Christmas — Country Christmas is Loretta Lynn's eighth solo studio album and her first Christmas album, released on October 17, 1966 by Decca Records. The singer did not release another Christmas album for 50 years until White Christmas Blue came out in 2016.
    8. 10:36 The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman
    9. 12:48 Blasé Splee - Christmas Vacation
    10. 16:50 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    11. 17:01 The Beach Boys - White Christmas — The Beach Boys released their seventh studio album on November 9, 1964, featuring five original songs and seven Christmas standards. The album reached No. 6 on Billboard's Christmas LP's chart and eventually went gold, becoming a long-running success during Christmas seasons. Music historian James Perone called it "one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era".
    12. 19:27 Santa on Elvis Presley - Winter Wonderland
    13. 19:37 Elvis Presley - Winter Wonderland
    14. 21:53 Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time
    15. 24:29 Carol Of The Friendly Beasts
    16. 27:54 Paul Eakins - Auld Lang Syne
    17. 29:57 Santa on Ethel Smith - Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
    18. 30:07 Ethel Smith - Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    33 min
  • Gregorian - Child In A Manger, United States Army Reserve and Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Christmas in Vermont

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:09 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:36 Gregorian - Child In A Manger
    4. 4:49 Hank Thompson - US Army Reserve PSA — A public service announcement featuring country music singer Hank Thompson promoting the United States Army Reserve and highlighting the community contributions made by its over 260,000 members who balance military service with civilian lives.
    5. 5:42 Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Christmas in Vermont
    6. 8:46 Santa on Christmas Seals (PSA)
    7. 9:03 Christmas Seals (PSA)
    8. 9:19 Pete Fountain - Winter Wonderland
    9. 11:36 Peter Nero & The Philly Pops - Christmas Lullaby — Peter Nero was an American pianist and Pops conductor who led the Philly Pops from 1979 to 2013. He won two Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist in 1962, and received a total of 8 Grammy nominations.
    10. 15:00 Westminster Abbey Choir - The Holly and the Ivy
    11. 17:58 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    12. 18:08 Santa on Tammy With Pepper - Night Before Christmas
    13. 18:18 Tammy With Pepper - Night Before Christmas
    14. 21:08 Nina - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? — Nina, Baroness van Pallandt is a retired Danish singer and actress.
    15. 24:17 Tommy James - The Birth of Jesus
    16. 26:29 Glen Campbell - Sleigh Ride
    17. 29:15 Santa on Christmas Night in Harlem
    18. 29:27 Louis Armstrong - Christmas Night In Harlem — A jazz holiday song recorded by Louis Armstrong, featuring his distinctive vocals celebrating Christmas festivities in Harlem with joyful, festive lyrics about the neighborhood dressed in snow and lit up for the season.

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    33 min
  • The Next Door Neighbors - Snowday, Hasbro Transformers and Vince Gill - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:09 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:31 The Next Door Neighbors - Snowday
    4. 4:54 Hasbro Transformers (commercial, 1985)
    5. 5:25 Vince Gill - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
    6. 7:52 Santa on I Keep My Snowman In The Freezer
    7. 8:01 I Keep My Snowman In The Freezer
    8. 9:15 Hudson & Landry - Frontier Christmas
    9. 13:59 Monica Lewis - The Christmas Song (1947)
    10. 17:07 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    11. 17:18 Frankie Jaxon - Christ Was Born On Christmas — Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, whose real name was Frank Devera Jackson, was an African American entertainer who worked as a vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian and gained popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.
    12. 20:35 Santa on Johnny Maestro - O Holy Night
    13. 20:44 Johnny Maestro - O Holy Night
    14. 24:40 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) — It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. The movie is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943, and that story was loosely based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
    15. 26:38 Jimmy Sturr - O! Holy Night — Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra recorded this polka arrangement of the classical Christmas hymn for their 1979 album Polka Christmas in My Home Town. The piece combines traditional accordion-based polka styling with the beloved holiday standard.
    16. 30:03 Audition Studio Orchestra - Mulberry Bush

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    32 min
  • David Seville & The Chipmunks - All I Want for Christmas, The Sandpipers - Frosty the Snowman Part 1 and James Brown - You Know It

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:10 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:38 David Seville & The Chipmunks - All I Want for Christmas
    4. 3:16 The Sandpipers - Frosty the Snowman Part 1
    5. 4:56 James Brown - You Know It
    6. 7:07 Santa on William Clauson - Dias De Navidad
    7. 7:14 William Clauson - Dias De Navidad
    8. 8:45 Pat O'Brien - Little Town of Bethlehem
    9. 10:49 Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Twelve Days
    10. 14:00 Julie London - I'd Like You For Christmas
    11. 16:26 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    12. 16:36 Santa on Armond, Caroll & Robert Forseth - I'm Longing for Jesus
    13. 16:45 Armond, Caroll & Robert Forseth - I'm Longing for Jesus
    14. 19:40 The Sisterhood - The Rocking Disco Santa Claus
    15. 21:48 English Country Church Choir - I Saw Three Ships — "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is an English Christmas carol listed as number 700 in the Roud Folk Song Index, with its earliest printed version dating to the 17th century, possibly from Derbyshire, and later published by William Sandys in 1833. The song was probably traditionally known as "As I Sat On a Sunny Bank" and was particularly popular in Cornwall.
    16. 24:00 Nat King Cole - Buon Natale — The Magic of Christmas is a 1960 album by Nat King Cole that was arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael.
    17. 25:29 Santa on Mister Santa
    18. 25:40 Lenny Dee & Anita Kerr Singers - Mister Santa — A cheerful Christmas song recorded by Lenny Dee and the Anita Kerr Singers, featuring children's voices singing about being good for Santa Claus and requesting gifts.
    19. 27:36 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Winter Wonderland
    20. 30:25 Carpenters - Christmas Waltz

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    33 min
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Pete King Chorale - Christmas Medley and My Birthday Comes on Christmas

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:11 Santa opens the show
    3. 1:43 10 - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane for the MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), where Judy Garland performed it. The song has been recorded by numerous artists over the years, including Frank Sinatra.
    4. 4:54 Pete King Chorale - Christmas Medley
    5. 8:35 Spike Jones - My Birthday Comes on Christmas — A novelty Christmas song recorded by Spike Jones, a bandleader known for comedic and satirical recordings. The song humorously depicts a child's frustration at having a birthday on Christmas Day and receiving combined presents for both occasions.
    6. 10:35 Santa on 22 Brides - A Coventry Christmas Carol
    7. 10:45 22 Brides - A Coventry Christmas Carol
    8. 12:57 Camille Metoyer Moten - Joy To The World
    9. 16:11 Gene Autry - Merry Texas Christmas, You All!
    10. 21:23 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    11. 21:33 Boris Brott - Carol of the Bells — "Carol of the Bells" is a Christmas carol based on the Ukrainian New Years song "Shchedryk," with music written and arranged by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych between 1901 and 1916. American composer Peter Wilhousky wrote the English-language lyrics in 1936.
    12. 22:39 Santa on Will Kennedy's Stereo Orchestra - Lo How a Rose
    13. 22:48 Will Kennedy's Stereo Orchestra - Lo How a Rose
    14. 26:15 The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells — The Singing Dogs was a Danish musical project from the 1950s created by recording engineer and ornithologist Carl Weismann and record producer Don Charles that used altered recordings of barking dogs to make music.
    15. 27:48 The Rock - 12 Days of Christmas — "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol and nursery rhyme that lists gifts given by a true love on each of the twelve days of Christmas. The song's words were first published in England in the late eighteenth century and have a Roud Folk Song Index number of 68. The most well-known melody comes from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin.

    …and 1 more. The whole running order: Santa's North Pole Radio

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    33 min
  • Christmas Eve, Deck the Halls and The Night Before Christmas

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:11 Santa opens episode 8
    3. 1:37 The Bickersons - Christmas Eve — The Bickersons was a comedy series that started in 1946 on NBC radio featuring Don Ameche and Frances Langford as a married couple who constantly argued with each other. The show later expanded to television and consisted of sketches centered around the husband and wife's constant bickering. The couple's relationship was portrayed as one long ongoing verbal conflict throughout the series.
    4. 12:00 The Monkees - Deck the Halls (1967)
    5. 12:27 Stan Freberg - Christmas Dragnet, Pt. 1
    6. 15:36 Santa on The Night Before Christmas (1922)
    7. 15:46 The Night Before Christmas (1922)
    8. 18:46 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    9. 18:56 Musical Betts - Church in the Wildwood
    10. 20:35 Deems Taylor - Dance of the Mirlitons (Intro)
    11. 20:52 Bobby Helms - Captain Santa Claus
    12. 23:15 Santa on The Three Suns - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
    13. 23:24 The Three Suns - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
    14. 24:50 Santa Claus & His Rockin' Snowmen - Thank God It's Christmas — A Christmas rock song performed by Santa Claus & His Rockin' Snowmen, released in 2008 on the album Christmas Rock. The upbeat holiday track celebrates the arrival of Christmas with a rock-oriented arrangement.
    15. 29:00 Capitol Steps - Looking A Lot Like Santa — A parody by the Capitol Steps, a political satire group founded in 1981, from their Christmas album O'Christmas Bush. The song is a humorous take on the classic Christmas carol, reflecting their signature style of turning current events into song.
    16. 30:17 Mahalia Jackson - Silent Night — Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer regarded as one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century, with a 40-year career that helped develop and spread gospel blues in black churches across the U.S. Despite racial segregation during her era, she achieved significant success in recording, selling an estimated 22 million records and performing before integrated audiences in concert halls worldwide, establishing herself as one of the best-selling gospel music artists.

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    34 min
  • Christmas City, Timex and Go Where I Send Thee

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:09 Santa opens episode 7
    3. 1:44 Merv Griffin - Christmas City — Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was an American television host and media executive who started as a radio and big band singer before moving into film and Broadway. He hosted The Merv Griffin Show from 1962 to 1986. Through his production companies Merv Griffin Enterprises and Merv Griffin Entertainment, Griffin created popular game shows including Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
    4. 3:47 Timex (commercial) — Timex Group USA, Inc. is an American watch brand founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. The company was acquired by Timex Group B.V. in 2008 and renamed Timex Group USA, though Timex Group USA is the original company from which the holding company took its name.
    5. 4:23 University Singers - Go Where I Send Thee — "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" is a traditional African-American spiritual song known for its cumulative structure, where each number comes with a biblical reference. The song has many different versions and is now widely recognized by Americans as a Christmas carol.
    6. 7:26 Santa on Silent Night - Complete Dramatization
    7. 7:36 Silent Night - Part 2 — "Silent Night" is a Christmas carol composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. UNESCO declared it an intangible cultural heritage in 2011, and the song was first recorded in 1905, becoming one of the most recorded Christmas songs with more than 137,000 known recordings. The carol has remained popular through films, recordings, and musical compositions that have quoted it.
    8. 9:49 Blasé Splee - O Holy Night — A contemporary rendition of the classic Christmas carol recorded by Blasé Splee, released on the Suburban Sprawl Music Holiday Sampler in 2009.
    9. 14:12 Christmas Seals (PSA) — Christmas seals are adhesive labels resembling postage stamps that are sold and attached to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs, particularly those focused on lung diseases like tuberculosis and child welfare. They were first issued in Denmark beginning in 1904, with Sweden and Iceland also issuing them that same year. The practice became popular and spread quickly around the world, with 130 countries eventually producing their own Christmas seals.

    …and 11 more. The whole running order: Santa's North Pole Radio

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Hail Blessed Virgin Mary, Barber Shop Octette and The Rockin' Dreidel

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:09 Santa opens episode 6
    3. 1:32 Wells Cathedral Choir - Hail Blessed Virgin Mary — A traditional Christmas carol performed by the Wells Cathedral Choir, a sacred piece honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus, recorded for various cathedral and Christmas music collections.
    4. 3:37 Dorothy Cameron - Barber Shop Octette — A novelty song from Dorothy Cameron and Edwin M. Rich's Christmas Show of 1951, featuring humorous lyrics about a barbershop quartet.
    5. 5:51 Sha Na Na - The Rockin' Dreidel — A novelty Christmas song performed by Sha Na Na, the 1950s rock and roll revival group, combining Hanukkah themes with rock and roll music.
    6. 8:43 Santa on Gimbels
    7. 8:53 Gimbels (commercial) — Gimbel Brothers was an American department store corporation founded by Adam Gimbel in 1842 with his first general store in Vincennes, Indiana. The company moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1887 and opened its first department store there, then expanded to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894 and to New York City in 1910 under the direction of Bernard Gimbel. The corporation operated until 1987.
    8. 10:28 I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas — "Nuttin' for Christmas" is a novelty Christmas song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett that became popular during the 1955 holiday season when five artists recorded versions that appeared on Billboard's pop charts. The most successful recording featured Art Mooney and His Orchestra with six-year-old Barry Gordon as the lead vocalist, reaching No. 6 on the charts and selling a million copies.
    9. 12:56 Ignacy Podgorski - Jingle Bells (Polish) (1947) — "Jingle Bells" is an American song written by James Lord Pierpont that became one of the most commonly sung Christmas songs in the world. The song was published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857, and although it originally had no connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas in the 1860s and 1870s. The song was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder, which is believed to be the first Christmas record but is now lost, though an 1898 Edison Records recording of the song still survives.

    …and 23 more. The whole running order: Santa's North Pole Radio

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Sleigh Ride Party / Jingle Bells, Silent Night and Brahms Lullaby

    Santa spins novelty Christmas records, holiday songs and carols, vintage toy commercials and B-movie Christmas trailers from North Pole Radio, the little station in the corner of his workshop, with a bit of trivia and a corny joke between them. A Stupid Potato show.

    In this episode:

    1. 0:00 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato
    2. 0:11 Santa opens episode 5
    3. 1:35 Sleigh Ride Party / Jingle Bells (1922) — "Jingle Bells" is an American song written by James Lord Pierpont that is now one of the most commonly sung Christmas songs worldwide. The song was originally published as "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857, though its exact place and time of composition remain unclear. Although the song had no original Christmas connection, it became associated with winter and Christmas during the 1860s and 1870s, and later appeared in various parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s. The song was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder—believed to be the first Christmas record though now lost—with a surviving 1898 Edison Records recording.
    4. 4:07 Archie Campbell & Dottie West - Silent Night — "Silent Night" is a Christmas carol composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. UNESCO declared it an intangible cultural heritage in 2011, and the song was first recorded in 1905. It is one of the most recorded Christmas songs, with more than 137,000 known recordings.
    5. 5:47 Brahms Lullaby — "Wiegenlied", Op. 49, No. 4, is a song for voice and piano by Johannes Brahms that was first published in 1868. The piece is among Brahms's most well-known works.
    6. 9:16 Santa on Blue Christmas
    7. 9:26 Barry Korcheski - Blue Christmas — A version of the classic Christmas standard recorded by Barry Korcheski, released on the 1997 album Christmas in Vancouver.
    8. 12:15 Twelve Days of Christmas — "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol and nursery rhyme that describes gifts given by a "true love" over twelve days, with the number of gifts increasing each day. The song's lyrics were first published in England in the late eighteenth century and are catalogued with Roud Folk Song Index number 68. The most popular melody associated with the song comes from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody created by English composer Frederic Austin.
    9. 16:27 Santa's North Pole Radio on Stupid Potato

    …and 13 more. The whole running order: Santa's North Pole Radio

    About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

    1 hr 4 min

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