It’s Xmas Day and I’ve already started my Christmas podcast for next year – yes the best time to sort out next years’s Xmas selection is the hinterland between releasing the Xmas podcast and Xmas itself. As well you get to hear what other people are featuring which gives you ideas,
Like this amazing Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller reggae track which Matt Catt played on his festive selection last night with a black santa rasta as the album cover. Talking of which very similar theme to the YT video for Granville Williams Orchestra – Santa Claus is Ska-ing To Town….
This is from a 1978 album ‘Natty Christmas’ which has gems like Wish You A Merry Christmas, All I Want For Ismas, Natty No Santa Claus and On The Twelve Day Of Ismas. I love when roots reggae not only covers classics but also adds it’s own flavour and lyrics.
“Bow the decks with bows of Collie…” indeed. This lead me into a Christmas reggae rabbit hole, so hence this great track by The Rhythm Aces with a festive alphabet.
Of course Trojan released a Christmas box set (is there a genre that they DON’T have in reggae form?!) so the liked of Reuben Anderson are a great chill soundtrack for today, as is the ska festive vibes of Frank Cosmo’s Merry Christmas. Expect them to be featured next year, unless I forget about them!
The other thing I am listening to on this snowy white grey and dreary Xmas Day is a John Peel radio rip from 1992 complete with Sarajevo news reports – (re)posted by Keeping It Peel blog i mean all the content on the radio at the moment is canned shite so may as well listen to do some good canned stuff . Great choices as always from Peel, and especially like the pointed inclusion of Phil Ochs – No Christmas In Kentucky with Peel saying dryly how it’s ‘lucky’ that the song doesn’t apply to Britain in 1992 (or I’d add 2022). Indeed.
Replace Sarajevo with Ukraine and it’s the same, down to the Tory corruption and poverty. Merry Xmas Everyone!
Always good to hear Elton John’s ever-present Step Into Christmas as covered by The Wedding Present too.
Always good to hear Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) and – spotting a theme here – Santa Claus is Black by Mikey Jarrett And Mikey General.
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