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Welcome to our annual Christmas and Calloway Show! Lots of music and
some readings for the winter holidays, along with music celebrating our
featured artist, Cab Calloway.
Born in Rochester, New York, on December 1907, Cabell “Cab” Calloway III
was a singer and a band leader who scored numerous hit records in the
1930s and 1940s. Calloway was a regular performer at the Cotton Club
in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a
career that spanned over 65 years.
CAB CALLOWAY RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia,org
Discography @ discogs.com
Cab Calloway’s Hepster’s Dictionary
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Jingle Bells Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Jingle Bell Swing 1962
The Calloway Boogie
Cab Calloway
Columbia Records 1947
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
Maria Muldaur
Barnyard Dance Jug Band Music For Kids 2010
Old Man of the Mountain
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
How Big Can You Get?: The Music Of Cab Calloway 2009
Merry Christmas, Baby Charles Brown Exclusive Records 1948
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Etta Jones Christmas With… 1990
IN THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS PLAY – Rev. Jim Rigsby
In this year’s Christmas play, the role of Herod will once again be played by
every political leader who bashes immigrants, mocks the poor or hounds women
having difficult pregnancies.
In this year’s Christmas play, the shepherds will be played by workers without
unions or sick leave, and by construction workers who labor in dangerous
conditions. The hotel owner will be played by those willing to stop making money
long enough to help someone in need. Joseph will be played by all those who don’t
need to personally benefit in order to help others. The 3 Wise Ones will be played
by those willing to leave old religious and political certainties and follow
wherever truth might lead.
This year, as every year, the Christ Child will be played by children born
into dangerous struggle between powerful religious and political forces.
These tender souls will be born shivering in the dark- invisible to the world.
Every precious infant born in harm’s way will be of infinite value, worth more
than all the treasures of the world.
The role of Mary will be played by all those radical lovers of humankind
who keep the torch of hope for universal justice burning. Like Mary, they will
sing of a day when those who dominate others will be brought down and the
oppressed will be lifted up in a revolution of loving justice.
The role of the angels, as always, will be played by those who can hover
above religious sects, national boundaries and hierarchies of vested wealth
and power to sing a song of peace on earth and good will to ALL.
Silent Night, Holy Night Sister Rosetta Tharpe Decca Records 1949
I’ve Got The World On A String
Patti Austin
Ella & Louis 2017
Let’s Make Christmas Merry Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
Christmas Boogie Frankie “Sugar Chile” Robinson Capitol Records 1950
I Want A Present For Christmas J.B. Summers Gotham Records 1949
Let It Snow The Count Basie Orchestra …Basie Christmas! 2015
Christmas Rain Ben Levin Still Here 2021
The Little Drummer Boy Etta James 12 Songs of Christmas 1998
Far Away Blues (Christmas Blues) Johnny Otis Savoy Records 1950
What A Wonderful World Harpdog Brown Unreleased 2021
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
The Blues Brothers 1980
Viper’s Drag
Allen Toussaint
American Tunes 2016
Between The Devil and Deep Blue Sea
Annie Ross
…Sings A Song With Mulligan 1959
The Christmas Song (Nat) King Cole Trio Capitol Records 1946
Good Morning Blues Ella Fitzgerald …A Swinging Christmas 1960
Cool Yule Catherine Russell Big Band Holidays II 2015
Kickin’ The Gong Around
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
The Boop-A-Doo 2016
Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man
Cab Calloway
Brunswick Records 1932
Winter Wonderland Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga (single) 2014
What Child Is This Ray Charles The Spirit Of Christmas 1985
READING: THE WORK OF CHRISTMAS – Howard Thurman
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among sisters and brothers,
To make music in the heart.
May Every Day Be Christmas Louis Jordan Decca Records 1951
White Christmas Sister Rosetta Tharpe Decca Records 1948
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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