34-New Year's Eve Party

Last day of the year! We made it! And what a year it's been. Best thing that happened was getting married after being a lifelong bachelor for the first fifty or so years. The worst thing that happened was getting flooded out of my parent's house during Hurricane Milton three weeks before the wedding. Everything else has been somewhere between those two extremes. I'll just be glad when this year is over and we can get on with the next one. The theme today is obviously New Year's & New Year's Eve songs, though supplanted with a healthy helping of regular Christmas tunes as well. And since there aren't that many New Year's songs out there, I've temporarily suspended my rule against using the same song more than once. You'll find more than your fair share of Auld Lang Syne and What Are You Doing New Year's Ev versions here. Just hold your nose and listen, it'll be OK. I even dug up a special New Year's greeting for you from the one and only Ann-Margret. Enjoy!

1. Seymour (The Heartbeat Trumpet) With Chimes And Organ-Jingle Bells
2. The World's Greatest Jazzband-Silent Night
3. The Statues-White Christmas
4. 20 Accordionists From The Accordiana-Shepherd's Came (Traditional Polish Carol)
5. Bob Decker-Accompanied By Alan Paller And His Orchestra-An Old Fashioned Christmas
6. Brad Swanson And His Whispering Organ Sound-Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
7. Danté And The Evergreens-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
8. David Buskin-Arranged & Conducted By Glenn Spreen-The Rest Of The Year (Stereo)
9. David Grant With The Wallace Fields Middle School Choir-Have Yourself A Merry Christmas
10. Debra Ferrara With The Walsh High Choir, Music By The Del Fi's-Christmas Time (Is Near)
11. Dick Wilson-Merry Christmas To You Dear Holy-One
12. Dorothy Collins-Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Dick Jacobs-The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas
13. Eddie "Piano" Miller Trio-Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
14. Eric Jay-Orchestra Under The Direction of Marion Evans-Little Drummer Boy
15. Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra And Chorus-Blue Christmas
16. Jimmy Little John (The Tall Texan) And His Robin Hoods-Santa You Made A Mistake
17. Marti Mae-A Delightful Story Of A Boy, A Girl, And Christmas
18. Milleridge Singers-Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
19. Ramona Gerhard-O Holy Night
20. Reggie Lamb-Christmas Confession-Vocal
21. Shawn Phillips-A Christmas Song
22. Sonny Til-Arranged And Conducted By Bert De Coteaux-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
23. The Ames Brothers With Sid Ramin And His Orchestra-O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël)
24. The Festival Singers-Auld Lang Syne
25. The G-Clefs-I Understand (Just How You Feel) (Auld Lang Syne)
26. The Heartbeats-After New Year's Eve
27. The Jimmy Castor Bunch-The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
28. Tommy Leonetti-Handful Of Happy New Years
29. Alexander O'Neal-Thank You For A Good Year
30. Cary Grant-Here's To You
31. Don Box With The Sundance Band-Here It Is New Year's Eve
32. Eddy Howard And His Orchestra-Vocal By Eddy Howard With Trio And Jack Halloran Choir-Auld Lang Syne
33. George Thorogood & The Destroyers-New Year's Eve Party
34. Hal And Joanne-The New Years Eve Song
35. Joe Gumin-Auld Lang Syne
36. King Curtis-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
37. Little Toodles-Auld Lang Syne
38. Nancy Wilson-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
39. Spike Jones And His City Slickers-Vocal Refrain By Sir Frederick Gas, Doodles Weaver, George Rock And Spike Jones-Happy New Year
40. Subway Serenade (Rich Peritone, Bob Emrick, John Blewitt, Chris Mahoney, Rick Nicolini)-What Are You Doing New Years Eve
41. The Mom & Dads-Auld Lang Syne
42. Tommy Wills (Man With A Horn)-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
43. White Elephant-Auld Lang Syne-Long Version
44. The Three Stooges-Auld Lang Syne
45. Ann-Margret-New Year's Greetings

MEGA

33-Thank You God For Santa Claus

The theme today was supposed to be Christmas songs that confused those two icons of Christmas, Santa and Jesus. Over the past year I've noticed a few songs where little kids pray to Santa Claus for something, or they ask Jesus to bring them a new bike. There are a few interesting conflagrations like that in here, but I didn't come up with very many. So I added in some God & Santa Claus tracks, and filled it out a bit with various songs including God & Jesus, as well as some pleas to put Christmas back into Christmas. Looks like I dumped a few December titles in there as well, since December is almost over. Oh, and I added a few songs from an aborted collection of Christmas songs that don't feature Christmas-related titles. See if you can pick some of those out from this list of tracks. It's an interesting collection, but kind of all over the place. Give it a listen and give me your suggestions on how I might clean this up a bit. Enjoy!

1. Bill Durkin And Full Orchestra-God's Christmas
2. Danny Shirley-Thank God For Christmas
3. Elliott, Walter & Bennett-The Twelve Days Of A Buffalo Bill Christmas
4. Errol Brown-Send A Prayer (To Heaven)
5. Frank Sinatra-A Baby Just Like You
6. Hal And Joanne-Gee, But I'm Lonesome
7. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers-Let's Party: March Of The Mods; Merry Christmas Everybody; I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday; Another Rock And Roll Christmas; Christmas Rap
8. Keith Harris, Orville And Dippy-Arranged And Conducted By Chris Walker-Come To My Party
9. Lucky Blondo-Noel Blanc
10. Marilyn Ford-Please Dear God Help Santa Claus
11. Mike Douglas-Arranged And Conducted By Lee Pockriss-Happy Birthday, Jesus
12. Orion Samuelson & The Uff-Da Band-Jingle Bells
13. Patti Page-Happy Birthday Jesus (A Child's Prayer)
14. Ruth Reinhart-Thank You God For Santa Claus
15. Slim Whitman-Where Is The Christ In Christmas
16. The Baja Marimba Band-December's Child
17. The Roger Bright Band-Snowmobiling
18. Vaughn Monroe-Orchestra Conducted By Charles Grean-The Song Of The Skier (In This White World)
19. Wickline-Powder Winter
20. Bobby Darin-Arranged & Conducted By Bobby Scott-Child Of God
21. Bobby Farrell-Heartache Wrapped In Blue
22. Exposé-December
23. George Leger-The Country Cajun-Let's Put Christ In Christmas Again
24. George T. Bowers-Wishin' Star Song
25. Guitars, Inc.-Little Toy
26. Hank Snow-God Is My Santa Claus
27. Jim Backus-The Office Party
28. Larry Cartell-Vocal & Orchestra Under The Direction Of Mary Trickett-Little Drummer Boy
29. Leroy Holmes And His Orchestra And Chorus-Song Of December
30. Levi John-Season's Greetings
31. Lew Davies Orchestra-Frosty The Snow Man
32. Loretta Lynn-Let's Put Christ Back In Christmas (Stereo)
33. Mark Strasser-Getting Ready For Christmas
34. Merle Lemon-Christmas Company
35. Mike Thomas-From Us To You This Christmas
36. Paul Huffman-Vocal Background "The Bach-Ahp Singers"-Tears Of Mary
37. Paul O'Keefe-A Baby In A Basket
38. Ralph London-What Is Christmas?
39. Spike Jones And His City Slickers-Vocal Refrain By Rudolph And The Reindeers-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
40. Syndicate-Silent Night (Instrumental)
41. Walter Murphy Orchestra-Deck The Halls
42. The Norman Luboff Choir-Joy To The World
43. The Three Suns-O, Holy Night (Cantique De Noël)
44. The Cathedral Choir-Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
45. Steven Curtis Chapman-Sparrow Christmas ID

MEGA