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Cool Yule: The Flip Side of Holiday Music

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document Holiday CD picks from from Minnesota Public Radio music staff

American Routes' Nick Spitzer and the resident conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bill Eddins, bring their favorite holiday music selections and talk about them. MPR's Julie Amacher serves as moderator to bring out the personalities of her guests.


Playlist
20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection  
20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection

Cool Yule
20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection (Remastered)
—Louis Armstrong and the Commanders
Hip-O Records

Hiphop Khasane 

Hiphop Khasane

Solomon and Socalled
Hiphop Khasane
—Cantor Sam Weiss, David Krakauer, Digitallis Allstars Simcha Band, Frank London, Josh Dolgin, Michael Alpert, Nik Ammar, Philip Shaw Bova, Sol Gunner, Sophie Soloman, Susan Hoffman Watts, Elaine Hoffman, Zev Feldman
Piranha records

Southern Journey, Georgia Sea Islands Alan Lomax Collection Volume 12: Biblical Songs and Spirituals Island Residents  
Southern Journey, Georgia Sea Islands

O Day
Southern Journey, Georgia Sea Islands Alan Lomax Collection Volume 12: Biblical Songs and Spirituals Island Residents

— John Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Nat Rahmings, Albert and Emma Ramsay, Ed Young, Hobart Smith
Rounder CD 1712

Holiday in Dementia  
Holiday in Dementia

Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Holiday in Dementia
— Joseph Spence

 

Winter into Spring  
Winter into Spring

Relfection
Winter into Spring
20th Anniversary Edition
—George Winston
Windham Hill

Blue - Joni Mitchel  
Blue - Joni Mitchell

River
Blue
—Joni Mitchell
Reprise

Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You  
Ray Charles and Betty Carter-Dedicated to You

Baby It's Cold Outside
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You
—Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Al Porcino,Bill Pittman,David "Fathead" Newman,Don Fagerquist, Edgar Willis, Frank Rosolino, Harry Betts, Irving Cottler, Jack Halloran, John Hunt, Kenny Shroyer, Martin Banks, Mel Lewis, Philip Guilbeau, Ray Triscari, Richard Nash
Rhino

Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248  

Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

J S Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
Blue
—Conductor: Ton Koopman; Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Performers: Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Christoph Pregardien, Elisabeth von Magnus, Klaus Mertens, Lisa Larsson
Erato 14635

Angel Clare  
There Goes Rhymin' Simon

American Tune
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
—Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon
Warner Brothers

Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection  

Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection

Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night)
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection
—Bessie Jones, Bob Cooper, Bob Copper, David Freeman, David Thomas, Ewan MacColl, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Norman Edmonds, Ron Copper,Ronald Cooper, Seamus Ennis, Trinidadian Cantique Singers, Valencia, Willis Proctor
Rounder 14635

Christmas with Chanticleer featuring Dawn Upshaw  
Christmas with Chanticleer featuring Dawn Upshaw

Silent Night
Christmas with Chanticleer featuring Dawn Upshaw
—Composers: Christmas Traditional, Franz Xaver Gruber, Healey Willan, Hugo Distler, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, Joseph Jennings, R. Fisher Boyce / Adger M. Pace, Sir John Tavener, Thomas Bold, Welsh Traditional Performers: Chanticleer, David Alan Marshall, Dawn Upshaw, Joseph Jennings, Kevin Baum
Teldec

Ballads – John Coltrane Deluxe  
Ballads – John Coltrane Deluxe

Greensleeves
Ballads – John Coltrane Deluxe
—John Coltrane
Universal

Pachelbel: Canon/Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings  

Pachelbel: Canon / Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings

Vaughn Williams: Greensleeves
—Conductors: Leonard Slatkin; Orchestras: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Rhino

A Winter Garden  
A Winter Garden

Good King Wenceslas
A Winter Garden
—Loreena McKennitt
Warner Brothers

Celtic Christmas, vol 4  
Celtic Christmas,
vol 4

Christmas Time's A Comin'
Celtic Christmas, vol 4
—Ricky Scaggs
Windham Hill

Ceremony of Carols  
Ceremony of Carols

Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols
— Kings College Choir, Cambridge
EMI 764653

A Creole Christmas  
A Creole Christmas

Go Tell It On A Mountain
A Creole Christmas
Zion Harmonizers
Epic (out of print)

Otis!  
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding

White Christmas
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding
—Otis Redding
Atlantic



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