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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
HANNUKAH / SOLSTICE
Light the menorah, deck the halls, and dance naked around your own private Stonehenge! Celebrate Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and the Christmas season.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Let It Snow George Shearing
Christmas With the George Shearing Quintet, Telarc - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Mildred Baily/Red Norvo
Christmas in New Orleans, Laserlight - Baby It's Cold Outside Ray Charles and Betty Carter
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Rhino - Hanukkah Dance Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin' - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways - A Heimisher Bulgar (A Homey Bulgar) Sam Musiker and his Orchestra
Klezmer Pioneers, Rounder - Makin' Whoopee The Barry Sisters
Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA - Hava Nagila Uri Caine
The Jewish Alternative Movement - A Guide For the Perplexed, Knitting Factory - Instrumental: Hora Attik Paradox Trio
The Jewish Alternative Movement, Knitting Factory - The Christians & the Pagans Dar Williams
Mortal City, Razor & Tie - The Christian Life The Louvin Brothers
Satan is Real, Capitol - Kneebone Bend The McIntosh County Shouters
Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia, Folkways - Leaning On the Everlasting Arms Fontella Bass
Gospel Live from Mountain Stage, Blue Plate - Instrumental: Ding Dong Merrily Baltimore Consort
Bright Day Star, Dorian - Paddy LeBlanc's Set Natalie McMaster
No Boundaries, WEA - Acadian Driftwood The Band
Northern Lights - Southern Cross, Capitol - J'étais Au Bal Eddie LeJeune
Le Trio Cadien, Rounder - Sagittarius Mary Lou Williams
Zodiac Suite, Smithsonian Folkways - Snowfall Esquivel
Merry Xmas, Bar/None
HOUR two
- Santa Claus is Coming To Town Jimmy McGriff
Christmas Cocktails, Capitol - Zat You Santa Claus Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong & Friends -What A Wonderful Christmas, Hip-O - Santa Claus is Skating to Town Granville Williams Orchestra
Natty and Nice, Rhino - Santa Baby Eartha Kitt
Louis Armstrong & Friends - What A Wonderful Christmas, Hip-O - Back Door Santa Clarence Carter
This is Clarence Carter/Testifyin', Koch - Rudolph, The Red- Nosed Reindeer Mambo Billy May
Christmas Cocktails, Capitol - Run Rudolph Run Chuck Berry
Yuletide Soiree, Rhino - Instrumental: Sleigh Ride The Ventures
Yuletide Soiree, Rhino - Rank Stranger Ralph Stanley & Tom Hall
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Freeland - Going Home Luna
Bewitched, Elektra - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, ABKCO - Merry Christmas Baby Southern Culture on the Skids
CD single, DGC - Merry Christmas Baby Lionel Hampton
Yule B Swingin, Hip-O - Instrumental: Santa Claus is Coming to Town Bill Evans
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve - Christmas Ball Blues Leon Redbone
Christmas Island, BMG - At the Christmas Ball Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia/Legacy - River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise - Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse - End Bed: What Child is This David Grisman
Must Be Santa, Rounder
