Playlist for 12-24-2013 WFCF - Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve show! Holiday favorites from Dexter Gordon, King Curtis, Bill Evans and many more! Took some doing to get to the station, today - but I made it. Thanks for tuning in & Merry Christmas! - Kendo


Hour One:

Vince Guaraldi - "O Tannenbaum" - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Bill Evans - "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" - Trio '64 (1963)

    3:15 Jazz Cookie Break!

Michael Bublé - "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - Let It Snow! (2003)

Dexter Gordon - "The Christmas Song" - The Panther (1970)

The Swingle Singers

Swingle Singers - "Medley" - Christmastime (1968)

King Curtis - "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?" - Soul Christmas (1968)

Roy Hargrove - "Frosty the Snowman" - Holiday Jazz (1996)

Jack Brokensha - "Little Drummer Boy" - Xmazz (1993)

Stan Kenton - "O Holy Night" - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (1961)

Vince Guaraldi - "Greensleeves" - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Valerie Gillespie - "Silver Bells" - It Can't Be Christmas Without You (2006)

Hour Two:

Bill Doyle Trio with Linda Cole - "Jingle Bells" (2013)

Heath Brothers - "Our Little Town" - God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen (1981)

Jimmy Smith - "White Christmas" - Christmas '64 (1964)

Mix of big band and combo numbers on this one!

Bobby Timmons - "Deck the Halls" - Holiday Soul (1964) 

Duke Ellington - "Arabesque Cookie" - The Nutcracker Suite (1960)


[music during announcements: Lawrence Welk - "Let It Snow!
Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"]

Yank Lawson - "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" - Yank Lawson/Bob Haggart - Hark the Herald Angels Swing! (1972)

Red Garland - "Winter Wonderland" - All Kinds of Weather (1958)


Stan Kenton - "Good King Wenceslas" - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (1961)

Nnenna Freelon - "Christmas Time is Here" - Christmas (2013)

Wynton Marsalis Quintet - "We Three Kings of Orient Are" - God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen (1981)