The 2008 SDA LNR Twelve Days of Christmas
The 2008 SDA Late Nite Radio
Twelve Days of Christmas
Extravaganza
December 15, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio, and welcome to our annual Twelve Days of Christmas Extravaganza. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our opening bid in this year's shows, on a humorous note, here are Straight No Chaser performing The Twelve Days of Christmas at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana (1998, 3:30). And for tonight's flip-side, here is Mr. Frank Sinatra performing The Christmas Waltz (2:59).
We're planning to do two tunes a night during this year's extravaganza, since even at two-dozen tunes we're still barely scratching the facade of the rich tradition underfoot. And to be clear, to mitigate potential impatience, we'll generally be starting out on the secular foot now, and ending up on the sacred foot later, ok?
While we're here, a quick reminder that a set of Christmas Carol Song Sheets, including both the sacred and the secular, and formatted for printing, is available (should you find it useful) at The Sagacious Iconoclast.
Lastly, for the record, I should like to note that:
December 16, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is Mr. Nat King Cole performing The Christmas Song (1961, 1:54). And for tonight's flip-side, here are Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds performing White Christmas, from Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn movie (1942, 3:07).
December 17, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is Mr. Andy Williams performing Christmas is a Feeling in Your Heart (2:41). And for tonight's flip-side, here is Mr. Dean Martin performing Silver Bells (2:27).
December 18, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is an old favourite of ours at SDA Late Nite Radio, the inimitable Miss Dolly Parton performing Smoky Mountain Christmas (2:03). And for tonight's flip-side and for our friends even farther south, here is Mr. Louis Armstrong performing Christmas In New Orleans (3:02).
December 19, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the Bill Susman Trio performing Oh Christmas Tree (2005, 3:35). And for tonight's flip-side, here is Mr. Mel Tormé performing Christmas Time is Here (3:49).
December 20, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our regular Friday night old-time radio show, here are Mr. Bob Hope et al perforing his Christmas 1948 Bob Hope Show from Berlin, Germany, during the Air Lift (26:41). And for tonight's flip-side, here are Mr. Milton Berle et al performing the Christmas 1947 Milton Berle Show (27:16).
December 21, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, and pursuant to one of our original design goals for this year's extravaganza ~ that of starting off on the secular foot and ending up on the sacred foot ~ we now change feet. Here for your delectation are two of The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras; Plácido Domingo is on a break) performing Adeste Fideles ("Oh Come, All Ye Faithful", 3:02). And for tonight's flip-side, here are a collection of popular Ukrainian artists performing the Christmas classic Dobry Vechir Tobi (Добрий вечір тобі ~ "Good Evening to You", 5:03).
December 22, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is John Eliot Gardiner leading the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in the opening chorus of the first cantata in Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (7:39). And for tonight's flip-side, here are Musica Amphion performing the sixth and seventh movements of Arcangelo Corelli's Christmas Concerto in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8 (5:56).
December 23, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the York Minster choir performing Good King Wenceslas (1995, 2:51). And for tonight's flip-side, here is Ella Fitzgerald performing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (3:14).
December 24, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our Christmas Eve 2008 show, here are the Vienna Boys Choir performing Silent Night (1998, 3:14). For tonight's flip side, here is Linus explaining The Meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown (1:18).
December 25, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our Christmas Day 2008 show, here is our number one Interwebothique Christmas Carol selection for 2008: the King's College, Cambridge Chapel Choir performing God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1998, 3:35).
God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our saviour
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from satan's power
when we have gone astray.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy.
Oh good tidings of comfort and joy.
And for tonight's flip-side, here is The News Magazine of the Screen's
1950 version of Peace on Earth ~ Good Will Toward Men (5:17).From what's not to like, already?
Merry Christmas, Everyone! December 26, 2008
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our final Twelve Days of Christmas show for 2008 (our Boxing Day 2008 show), here is the St. Paul's Cathedral choir performing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (3:32). And for tonight's flip-side, here is Mr. Mario Lanza performing We Three Kings of Orient Are (1951, 3:10).
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