WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for December 20, 2009
Since 1980, I have hosted a Christmas special on the Sunday before Christmas annually on WFDU-FM. If you do the math, that makes today’s edition #30. A major snowstorm that hit our area yesterday had me worried, but the roads were clear today and I had a wonderful time hosting the show.
The program is a mix of traditional song and carol with a smattering of contemporary song that will hopefully become a part of the holiday tradition. I highly recommend the new holiday CD’s from Kerfuffle, Belshazzars Feast and Winterbloom.
Today’s show was dedicated to Jean Ritchie. Jean has been a guest on WFDU a number of times over the years, and her songs and the book "Singing Family of the Cumberlands" was one of the inspirations for putting together a program that honors the tradition and the season. My thoughts and prayers are with Jean and her family following her recent stroke.
(Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3 to 6pm Eastern Time
over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area,
or on the web at www.wfdu.fm
where our shows are archived for two weeks on the website.
A Sing Out! Radio Partner )
ARTIST Tune / Song
ALBUM LABEL – Website
Theme: HARVEY REID Jingle Bells
The Heart of A Minstrel on A Christmas Day Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
JEAN RITCHIE Brightest and Best
Kentucky Christmas Old and New Greenhays Recordings – www.jeanritchiehome.com
ATWATER-DONNELLY Wintergrace
When Winter Calls self – www.atwater-donnelly.com
HARVEY REID & JOYCE ANDERSEN I Saw Three Ships
Christmas Morning Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
MAGPIE To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Last Month of the Year Sliced Bread Records – www.magpiemusic.com
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM Christmas Time’s A Comin’
Winter’s Grace Signature Sounds – www.signaturesounds.com
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR The Twelve Days of Christmas
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell! Golden Hind Music – www.goldenhindmusic.com
THE WATERSONS Here We Come A-Wassailing
Frost and Fire Topic Records – www.topicrecords.co.uk
JOHN KIRKPATRICK, ROSIE CORSS, GEORGINA LE FAUX, MICHAEL GREGORY, JANE THRELFALL & CARL HOGSDEN The Holly and The Ivy
Wassail! Fellside Recordings – www.fellside.com
BEESTON METHODIST CAROL CHOIR Once in Royal David’s City
Brightest and Best – Village Carols from Beeston in Nottinghamshire Village Carols – www.villagecarols.org.uk
KERFUFFLE Cherry Tree Carol
Lighten the Dark: A Midwinter Album self – www.kerfuffleonline.co.uk
BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST King Herod and the Cock / Parson’s Farewell
Frost Bites Wild Goose Records – www.belshazzarsfeast.co.uk
MADDY PRIOR WITH THE CARNIVAL BAND God Rest You Merry Gentleman
A Tapestry of Carols Saydisc Records – www.saydisc.com
CHRISTMAS REVELS The Boars Head Carol
The Christmas Revels Revels Inc. – www.revels.org
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR In Praise of Christmas
A Pagent of Mid-Winter Carols Vol. 4 Golden Hind Music – www.goldenhindmusic.com
JANE SIBBERY In the Bleak Midwinter
Shusahn the Palace (Hymns of Earth) Sheeba Music – www.janesibbery.com
TELYNOR Pat-A-Pan
Off the Beaten Path self www.telynor.com
PETER OSTROUSHKO Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells)
Heartland Holiday Borderland Productions – www.peterostroushko.com
MARGO HENNEBACH & MARK SAUNDERS Rocking
Comfort and Joy self – www.margohennebach.com
DIANE TARAZ Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabella
Hope! Says the Holly self – www.dianetaraz.com
JEAN RITCHIE The Cherry Tree Carol
Kentucky Christmas Old and New Greenhays Recordings – www.jeanritchiehome.com
PENNY SEEGER WITH MIKE SEEGER & FAMILY Rise Up Shepard and Follow
American Folk Songs for Christmas Rounder www.rounder.com
DEBI SMITH & PHIL ROSENTHAL Go Tell it On the Mountain
A Folk Song Christmas American Melody – www.americanmelody.com
ANDREW ROWAN SUMMERS Away in a Manger
Christmas Carols Folkways Records – www.folkways.si.edu
VARIOUS Kentucky Wassail
Twas On A Night Like This Folk-Legacy Records – www.folk-legacy.com
KITTY MACOLL Mary Had A Baby
American Folk Songs for Christmas Rounder www.rounder.com
ODETTA What Month Was Jesus Born In?
Gonna Let it Shine M.C. Records – www.mc-records.com
ODETTA Children Go Where I Send Thee
Christmas Spirituals Alcazar – out of print
ODETTA Shout for Joy
Gonna Let it Shine M.C. Records – www.mc-records.com
ODETTA Ain’t That A Rockin
Christmas Spirituals Alcazar – out of print
TOMMY MAKEM The Huron Carol
Tommy Makem’s Christmas Shanachie – www.tommymakem.com
PETE SEEGER Twas On A Night Like This
Traditional Christmas Carols Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu
ROBERT LURTSEMA The Night Before Christmas
Christmas Stories Philo – www.rounder.com
ERIK DARLING Walk Right In, Santa
Revenge of the Christmas Tree self – www.erikdarling.com
JOEL MABUS Let’s Do Christmas Right
How Like the Holly Fossie Records – www.joelmabus.com
ED MCCURDY & THE HARVESTERS Miracle of the Wheat
45 single Kapp out of print
DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER American Noel
American Noel Signature Sounds – www.daveandtracy.com
MARA LEVINE WITH JOE JENCKS Straw Against the Chill
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol.4 self – www.hudsonharding.com
THE WEAVERS We Wish You A Merry Christmas
We Wish You A Merry Christmas MCA out of print
GREG GREENWAY Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol.1 self – www.hudsonharding.com
ANTJE DUVEKOT & MEG HUTCHINSON Silent Night
Winterbloom: Traditions Rearranged self – www.winterbloom.com
THE BURNS SISTERS O Come O Come Emmanuel
Tradition Philo – www.rounder.com
TOM PRASADA RAO Joy to the World
Christmas in the Ashram self – www.thedreamsicles.com
JOAN BAEZ Ave Maria
Noel Vanguard Records – www.joanbaez.com
JEAN RITCHIE Wintergrace
Kentucky Christmas Old and New Greenhays Recordings – www.jeanritchiehome.com
===========
Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666