http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/like-a-holiday/ Our Top 40 Past . . . in the Present Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:31:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/like-a-holiday/#comment-3486 JP Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:57:03 +0000 http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/like-a-holiday/#comment-3486 In response to the first paragraph of your post, one of my earliest (and fondest) memories of WLS dates back to '73 or '74 on Christmas Eve, when my family would drive into the city from the suburbs to meet family for an evening celebration. I can remember driving in the late afternoon down the Eisenhower Expressway (5:00pmish), listening to WLS' Festival of Music on the radio, and then again hearing it through sleepy ears around midnight as we drove back to the suburbs, all the time envisioning Santa Claus flying overhead delivering toys. As a 3 or 4 year old, it was truly a magical experience. I remember a wonderful variety of traditional and contempory Christmas tunes, interspersed with informative vignettes about various Christmas topics (e.g., the origin of Silent Night, the history of the Xmas tree, etc.). I for one would dearly love to hear again some snippets from this truly classic program. In response to the first paragraph of your post, one of my earliest (and fondest) memories of WLS dates back to ‘73 or ‘74 on Christmas Eve, when my family would drive into the city from the suburbs to meet family for an evening celebration. I can remember driving in the late afternoon down the Eisenhower Expressway (5:00pmish), listening to WLS’ Festival of Music on the radio, and then again hearing it through sleepy ears around midnight as we drove back to the suburbs, all the time envisioning Santa Claus flying overhead delivering toys. As a 3 or 4 year old, it was truly a magical experience. I remember a wonderful variety of traditional and contempory Christmas tunes, interspersed with informative vignettes about various Christmas topics (e.g., the origin of Silent Night, the history of the Xmas tree, etc.). I for one would dearly love to hear again some snippets from this truly classic program.

]]> http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/like-a-holiday/#comment-3463 The Stepfather of Soul Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:44:12 +0000 http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/like-a-holiday/#comment-3463 I'd never heard this version of the song before - hot damn this has a nice sound to it (is it blasphemous for me to say that I may just like it more than Messr. Bell's?) I’d never heard this version of the song before – hot damn this has a nice sound to it (is it blasphemous for me to say that I may just like it more than Messr. Bell’s?)

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