List: All the Christmas Stuff | Curated by Peter Sanfilippo

Dec 19, 2022
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All the Christmas Stuff
Peter Sanfilippo
The Home Alone Soundtrack: A Miracle that Almost Didn’t Happen (twice)John Williams — 1990
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Blue Christmas: Trains, Cowboys, and the War for a HitJay W. Johnson and Billy Hayes — 1948
Dec 8, 2022
Dec 8, 2022
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Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town: The Great Depression, Charity, and ConsumerismJ Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie — 1934
Dec 22, 2021
Dec 22, 2021
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Wonderful Christmastime: From a New Toy to Money in the BankPaul McCartney — 1979
Dec 11, 2021
Dec 11, 2021
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas: Pudding, Pagans, and RevoltArthur Warrell (sort of) — 1939
Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020
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Happy Xmas (War is Over): From Vietnam to New York to Your RadioJohn & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band — 1971
Dec 9, 2020
Dec 9, 2020
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O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) — Another Song that has Very Little to Do with ChristmasErnst Anschütz — 1824
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019
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Silent Night: The World’s Most Famous One-Hit WonderJoseph Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber — 1818
Dec 15, 2019
Dec 15, 2019
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Martin, Your Lyrics are Trash and Everybody Knows ItHugh Martin & Ralph Blane — 1944
Dec 8, 2019
Dec 8, 2019
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Baby It’s Cold Outside: Let’s just get this one out of the wayFrank Loesser — 1944
Dec 22, 2018
Dec 22, 2018
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I Saw Three Ships: Dead Kings, a Really Bad Sense of Geography, and More EnglishTraditional — 1833 (kinda)
Dec 18, 2018
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What Child is This? — Prostitutes? Henry VIII? Italians?William Chatterton Dix (kinda) — 1865
Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018
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Carol of the Bells — Soviet Invasion, Assassination, and a Talking BirdMykola Leontovych, Peter J. Wilhousky — 1916, 1921 Respectively
Dec 24, 2017
Dec 24, 2017
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Good King Wenceslas — Charity, a Red Wedding, and the Ripoff of an Easter SongIt’s complicated — It’s very complicated
Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017
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Do You Hear What I Hear — Nazis, the Cold War, and the Little Drummer BoyGloria Shayne and Noël Regney — 1962
Dec 19, 2017
Dec 19, 2017
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Go Tell It on the Mountain — Decades of Struggle, a Dedicated Bookworm, and UniversityUnknown — Mid 19th Century
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
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O Holy Night — An Atheist, an American Christian, a Missing Hand, and WarAdolphe Adam — 1847
Dec 15, 2017
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