Sid posed for a 2018
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine profile. Portrait by Cameron Wittig
One Sunday morning in the late 1970s, Dave Mona performed a live audition of sorts for a 25-minute radio show built around sports columnist Sid Hartman, because ’CCO farm director Chuck Lilligren was tired of working Sundays. The show aired before the taped Mormon Tabernacle Choir hour from Salt Lake City.
“Sid told me after that it wasn’t going to work out and he was going to quit so they’d have to cancel the show,” Mona recalls. Hartman did quit the show by dying in October, 40-plus years later.
Calamity Claus: Our Annual Review Of Quirky Holiday Songs
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It s our annual spinning of holiday tunes with our own Mike Wilkins, radio engineer for PRX s and GBH s The World.
All this hour, GBHâs intrepid holiday music collector shares his new finds of old songs that are quirky, weird, and just a little bit extra. These are
not the traditional carols from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, or even new traditional favorites like Mariah Careyâs All I Want For Christmas Is You. Nope, for his annual collection of songs you never heard of, Wilkins has once again rescued vinyl one-hit-wonders from the forgotten bins of overlooked B-sides, and highlighted a few new tunes that might become classics. And this season â his 31st year of Jinglebell melodies â Wilkins collection gives a nod to 2020âs overwhelming impact.
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Are you in the Christmas spirit yet? I love this time of year - and hearing and singing Christmas carols and songs is my favorite holiday pastime.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Identify your absolute favorite Christmas Carol or Holiday song.
2) Share your favorite Christms carol or holiday song in a blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a comment and link here to your post.
3) For extra credit, post an audio or video of the carol or song (almost all are on www.YouTube.com) and the words to the song. Add the background of the song, and the artists if you can find them.
Today in Music History - Dec. 29
The Canadian Press 2020-12-18
Today in Music History for Dec. 29:
In 1849, the Christmas hymn by Edmund Sears, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, was first published in The Christian Register.
In 1939, Radio Luxembourg was given government permission to begin broadcasting. It was the only commercial radio station in Europe to broadcast in English during the 1950s and 60s, and was the only European station to play rock n roll. Part of Radio Luxembourg s Saturday night programming was a rebroadcast of disc jockey Alan Freed s show from the U.S.
In 1941, sax and flute player Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues was born in Stourport-on-Severn, England. Thomas, along with lead singer Denny Laine, keyboard player Michael Pinder, bassist Clint Warwick and drummer Graeme Edge, began The Moody Blues as a R&B band in 1964 in Birmingham. After their first major hit, Go Now, Laine and Warwick left the group and Justin Hayward and John Lodge joined.
Collecting Christmas records
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Dec 16, 2020
By Tim Neely
in the
Christmas mood. Perhaps you want to trim the tree or wrap presents or indulge in cookies and eggnog. You want the full throwback experience, but you don’t have any Christmas music to spin on your turntable, and you don’t want to hear the same old stuff from the local holiday-hits station. What now? One of the best parts of collecting Christmas music is that you can obtain a good collection for not a lot of money. Except for music that is collectible for other reasons for example, doo-wop, punk/alternative, audiophile reissues, 1990s vinyl most Christmas albums are common and cheap. Many are likely to lurk in the bargain bins at thrift shops and used record stores. But don’t let that deter you! If it’s that old-time feeling you want, the $1-or-less stuff is