Contents 1 Show 2 Sessions 3 Tracklisting 4 File

Show Edit

Name

• John Peel's Other Christmas Records

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1992-12-24

Comments

• An all-record show of festive tunes, introduced by John as 'the records that Santa Claus forgot, guaranteed Greg Lake-free'.
• Before the Black Ace track, John mentions that he saw Ace play live (and afterwards that he comes from Fort Worth, Texas: this was the place where JP had to go for a medical once). Then admits that he can't remember whether the fact he saw him live is true or not.
• The group named the Wailers is not Bob Marley's group, and JP jokes about this.
• Following the Lonnie Brooks track, John states that while he was playing the song Christmas Day began. He then proceeds to give a complete rundown of Radio One's Christmas Day programmes, culminating in his own, featuring the Festive Fifty.
• Comment after the Carla Thomas track: 'I rather dislike Christmas parties myself, to be honest with you: I always seem to end up in the kitchen talking with a bunch of people that I don't know about loft insulation. Perhaps I'm going to the wrong parties'.
• This programme is not listed in the shows section of Ken Garner's Peel Sessions: a news bulletin thirty minutes in confirms a) that the show is live and b) that the date is Christmas Eve 1992. The bulletin refers to Caspar Weinberger's pardon.

Sessions Edit

• None

Tracklisting Edit

• Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, 'Santa Claus Is Coming'
• Solomon Burke, 'Presents For Christmas'
• Shonen Knife, 'Space Christmas'
• Hepsters, 'Rocking And Rolling With Santa Claus'
• Black Ace, 'Santa Claus Blues'
• Mikey Jarrett And Mikey General, 'Santa Claus Is Black'
• Four Lovers, 'White Christmas (EP-Rocking Christmas)'
• Margo, Sylvia And The Tuneweavers, 'Merry Christmas Baby (CD-Doo Wop Christmas)'
• Wailers, 'Christmas Spirit'
• Cocteau Twins, 'Frosty The Snowman (EP-Snow)' (4AD)
• Huey Piano Smith, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas'
• Phil Ochs, 'No Christmas In Kentucky (LP-A Toast To Those Who Are Gone)' (Rhino)
• Ramones, 'Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight) (7 inch, B-side of I Wanna Live)' (Sire)
• Champion Jack Dupree, 'Santa Claus Blues'
• Moods, 'Rockin' Santa Claus'
• Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band, 'There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evening Train (LP-Spotlight Kid)' (Reprise)
• Amos Milburn, 'Christmas Comes Once A Year (7 inch)' (King)
• Oscar Matlolly And His Honeyjumpers, 'Dig That Crazy Santa Claus'
• Lynn White, 'If You Can't Come Home For Christmas'
• Johnny Preston, 'I Want A Rock'n'Roll Guitar'
• Lonnie Brooks, 'Christmas On the Bayou'
• Wedding Present, 'Step Into Christmas (7 inch, B-side of No Christmas)' (RCA)
• Meditation Singers, 'Blue Christmas (LP-Christmas Dedication)'
• Carla Thomas, 'Gee Whizz It's Christmas'
• Director, 'Christmas Soca' (Bumble Bee)
• Waitresses, 'Christmas Wrapping (EP-I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts)' (Polydor)
• Moonglows, 'Hey Santa Claus'
• Commander Cody, 'Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas'
• Run DMC, 'Christmas In Hollis (CD-A Very Special Christmas)'
• Turtles, 'Santa And The Sidewalk Surfer'
• Plan 9, 'Merry Christmas (LP-A Midnight Christmas Mess)' (Midnight)
• Freddie King, 'Christmas Tears'
• Gary U.S. Bonds, 'Call Me For Christmas'
• Carlene Davis, 'Santa Claus Do You Ever Come To The Ghetto (LP-Yard Style Christmas)'
• Fall, 'Xmas With Simon (7 inch, B-side of High Tension Line)' (Phonogram)
• Sonics, 'Santa Claus'
• Marcels, 'Merry Twistmas (CD-Doo Wop Christmas)'
• Otis Redding, 'White Christmas'

File Edit

John Peel's Other Christmas Records 1992-12-24

Length

• 01:59:50

Other

• Produced by Mike Hawkes

Available

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