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Sound Salvation
Dec 21, 2018 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Music
With Steve Pick
Steve Pick brings you Sound Salvation. It's 3 hours of the best new music liberally mixed with all the classics of the last century's worth of pop music, rock & roll, jazz, blues, country, soul and more. If it's worth hearing, you'll find it on Sound Salvation.
| 7:01 AM |
| Jackson Five santa Claus Is Coming to Town Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection Motown 2009 One of my fave versions of this classic!
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| 7:04 AM |
| Gary U.S. Bonds Call Me For Christmas Hot Rod Holiday THE RIGHT STUFF 1997 You don't hear him often enough any more.
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| 7:06 AM |
| The Mavericks Hey! Merry Christmas! N Hey! It's Christmas! Mono Mundo Recordings 2018 I'm a sucker for exclamation points, ya know!
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| 7:10 AM |
| Amos Milburn Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby Legends of Christmas Past EMI 1992 I haven't played this one in way too many years.
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| 7:13 AM |
| Carla Thomas Gee Whiz, It's Christmas Soul Christmas Atlantic 1991 In the grand tradition of taking your hit and making a Christmas version.
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| 7:16 AM |
| Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns All I Want For Christmas (Is a Little Bit of Music) Christmas Party With Eddie G Columbia 1990 From my single favorite holiday music compilation album.
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| 7:22 AM |
| Teddy Thompson Christmas Christmas - Single Verve Forecast 2008 A Cat Pick fave - and I love it, too.
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| 7:25 AM |
| Coconut Records It's Christmas The Christmas Gig Target 2010 Jason Schwartzman makes good music, too.
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| 7:27 AM |
| Julian Casablancas I Wish It Was Christmas Today I Wish It Was Christmas Today single RCA 2009 Great cover of the SNL classic!
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| 7:32 AM |
| The Monkees House of Broken Gingerbread N Christmas Party Rhino 2018 A yuletide song co-written by Michael Chabon!
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| 7:35 AM |
| Tim Lee 3 Shiny Red Suit single Cool Dog Sound 2013 This song has become a holiday fave chez Pick! Dedicated to the Lee's new foster basset hound!
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| 7:40 AM |
| Three Wise Men (aka XTC) Thanks for Christmas Cafe Apres-midi Christmas Toshiba-EMI 2005 I remember finding this 7" in the stores when it was new.
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| 7:44 AM |
| The Fab Four Silent Night (In a Fab Four Style) Christmas A Go-Go Wicked Cool 2008 The Beatles never recorded this one, but they could have.
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| 7:51 AM |
| Chris Stamey & the dB's Christmas Time Ho Ho Ho Spice Volunteer 2003 Another masterpiece.
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| 7:54 AM |
| Ramones Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight) Punk Rock christmas Rhino 1995 Nobody wants to fight tonight, do they?
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| 7:56 AM |
| Ricky Nelson jingle bells Legacy CAPITOL 2000 I needed a short one and this one is cool and it fits!
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| 8:03 AM |
| Billy Squier Christmas Is the Time to Say "I Love You" Billboard Rock'n'Roll Christmas Rhino 1994 Cat chose this one, but I stand by it.
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| 8:06 AM |
| Bobby Lloyd and the Skeletons Do You Hear What I Hear / You Really Got Me Christmas Party With Eddie G Columbia 1990 There are certain records which define the holiday. This is one of them.
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| 8:08 AM |
| Canned Heat & the Chipmunks The Chipmunk Song Legends of Christmas Past EMI 1992 Truly legendary collaboration.
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| 8:12 AM |
| JD McPherson Hey Skinny Santa! N Socks New West Records 2018 One of the best holiday albums in years. This song cracks me up every time!
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| 8:14 AM |
| The Sonics Santa Claus !!!Here Are The Sonics!!! Norton 1999 Rock'n'roll and Christmas!
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| 8:17 AM |
| Syd Straw Christmas Twist Christmas Twist Pier One 2000 I had completely forgotten this number until Rich Reese made his first Christmas compilation CD this year.
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| 8:23 AM |
| R.E.M. Deck the Halls CD Single S/R
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| 8:24 AM |
| The Shins Wonderful Chrismastime Holidays Rule Hear Music 2012 An annual tradition to play this song.
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| 8:27 AM |
| Miley Cyrus & Mark Ronson Happy Xmas (War Is Over) N single Sony 2018 She and Mark Ronson and Sean Lennon did this on SNL the other night.
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| 8:33 AM |
| The Hives & Cyndi Lauper A Christmas Duel download Unknown 2010 In the grand tradition of Christmas songs about couples fighting!
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| 8:37 AM |
| Bob Reuter & Kamikaze Cowboy White Christmas / Silver Bells / White Christmas L Better Than Fruitcake Sound System 2000 Bob Reuter made a lot of great music in his lifetime - this is a wonderful example of what he could do.
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| 8:43 AM |
| Rufus Wainwright & Sharon Van Etten Baby it's Cold Outside Holidays Rule Hear Music 2012 A song celebrating female desire!
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| 8:47 AM |
| Pogues w/ Kirsty Macoll Fairytale of New York Essential Pogues Island 1991 One of the greatest of all Christmas-time songs.
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| 8:52 AM |
| Sloan Merry Xmas Everybody Merry Xmas Everybody - Single murderecords 2012 I almost forgot they did a cool version of this - Cat didn't.
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| 8:56 AM |
| Mega-Hurts All I Got For Christmas Was This Lousy Gun A Very Bert Dax Christmas Volume Three Bert Dax Cavalcade Of Stars 2004 Karen Ried of Bunnygrunt wrote and sang this masterpiece during the years her other band took time off.
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| 9:02 AM |
| Ella Fitzgerald Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Verve One of the most perfect Christmas albums.
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| 9:05 AM |
| Peggy Lee Happy Holiday Happy Holiday Capitol Records 1965 A delightful number that goes out of its way to be holiday inclusive.
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| 9:07 AM |
| Carmen McRae The Christmas Song Jingle Bell Jazz COLUMBIA/LEGACY 1962 I was lucky enough to see her sing live once.
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| 9:12 AM |
| Aimee Mann with Michael Penn Christmastime Just Say Noel Geffen 1996 Husband and wife celebrating the holidays together.
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| 9:16 AM |
| The Kinks Father Christmas Billboard Rock and Roll Christmas Rhino 1994 A song about economic injustice.
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| 9:20 AM |
| Rufus Wainwright Spotlight on Christmas McGarrigle Family Christmas Hour Nonesuch 2005 A wonderful family Christmas album.
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| 9:24 AM |
| Rough Shop Gimme That Twine! L N Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree Perdition 2014 The two holiday albums by this local treasure are essential!
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| 9:27 AM |
| Fleming and John Merry Mountain Wonderland unknown Unknown 2005 A perfect mix of Led Zeppelin with Winter Wonderland.
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| 9:31 AM |
| King Diamond No Presents for Christmas Best of King Diamond Roadrunner 2003 He had to be in on his joke, right?
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| 9:35 AM |
| The Decemberists Angel, Won't You Call Me? Five Songs - EP Hush 2002 Maybe not a Christmas song, but it has Angel in the title.
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| 9:40 AM |
| The Supremes my favorite things Ultimate Motown Christmas Motown 2009 A holiday song of sorts.
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| 9:43 AM |
| The Drifters White Chistmas Soul Christmas Atlantic 1991 My all-time fave version of this song.
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| 9:46 AM |
| Dressy Bessy All the Right Reasons All the Right Reasons - EP Kindercore 2003 I don't really know anything about this band, but this is a cute song.
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| 9:49 AM |
| Funky Butt Brass Band Every Day (Will Be Like a Holiday) [feat. Big Mike Aguirre] L A Funky Butt Family Christmas Funky Butt Brass Band 2017 One of the best blues singers in town.
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| 9:53 AM |
| Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please come home) A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector Philles 1963 The greatest of all Christmas records.
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