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Just one Christmas song, James Brown "Santa Claus Go Straight To the Ghetto", from a Christmas album he did in 1968 called "A Soulful Christmas". That's my offering for the silly season, otherwise it's always the season for great roots music. A bit of a technical blue to start with - heck what's new? But after that it was plain sailing.

James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight To the Ghetto
Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man
lachie hayes - This River
The Civil Wars - You Are My Sunshine - Bonus
Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway
Allison Russell - Many Mansions
Jeffrey Foucault - Lodi
Saaneah Jamison - Get the Hell Out of Dodge
Malcolm Holcombe, Iris DeMent - Black BitterMoon
Adia Victoria - Went For A Ride
emmylou harris - So You Think You're A Cowboy
Fenton Robinson - Someboy Loan Me A Dime - Remastered
Joy Oladokun - Jordan
Noah Kahan - Someone Like You (feat. Joy Oladokun)
C.W. Stoneking - Get On the Floor
Brent Cobb - Black Creek
Waxahatchee - Fire
John Prine - Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home)
Jubal Lee Young - If My Eyes Were Blind
Chance McCoy & The Appalachian String Band - Gospel Plough
james mcmurtry - Too Long In the Wasteland
Willie Watson - Rock Salt and Nails
Gillian Welch - Paper Wings

Sliding into your podcast feed like that new meal you discovered between lunch and afternoon tea: Campbell comes thru with some essential sounds running the gambit of funk, boogie, jazz, lovers rock, bruk, jazz-samba, nuzillund new jack swing, disco, and on and on. 

Funk music is too strong to be kept down - this is the show they tried to ban, but here it is for your holiday listening pleasure pump it up before it's taken down by the powers that b!

The Meters - Sophisticated cissy (1968)
Harlem River Drive - Idle hands (1971)
Kevin Drinkard - I wanna thank you (1974)
Three Ounces of Love - Give me some feeling (1978)
All Points Bulletin - Police chasing theme (1978)
Prince Charles & City Beat Band - Don't fake the funk (1984)
TMS - Get the feeling (1982)
Khemistry - I got a feeling (1982)
The Jacksons - Everybody (1980)
Lenny Williams - Please don't tempt me (1977)
Twilight 22 - Mysterious (Remix, 1984)
Point 3 FM - So delicious (1987)
New Sector Movements - The sun (Dwelogy remix, 2001)

Dennis Brown - Love has found its way (1982)
Morgan Heritage - Love you right (2006)
George Benson - Water brother (1969)
Baden Powell - Canto de Ossanha (1966)
Tania Maria - Eruption (1982)
Gene Ammons - Jug eyes (1971)
Alix Jacques Cole Cole Band - Tessa's Theme (1980)
Raul Marrero - Perdoname (1977)
Phil Upchurch - People make the world go 'round (1982)
Afro-Funk - Afro funk (1975)
Paz - Iron works (1982)

Fuemana - Dangerous Love (1994)
Colonel Abrams - Running (1987)
Willie Hutch - Keep on jamming (1985)
Twennynine ft Lenny White - Oh Sylvie (1979)
Eddie Cheba - Lookin' good (1979)
Dego - Not in my disco (2011)
Shadee - Disco hall of fame (1979)
WJW & Roots Trunks & Branches - Rising (1978)
Frequency - Loosen Up (1979)
Valerie Horton-Brown - Lucky lucky me (1981)
George Benson - The world is a ghetto (1977)

  • James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet - Chemurgy (from The Jesup Wagon)
  • Illegal Crowns - Fading Wave (from Unclosing)
  • Matthew Shipp Trio - The Function (from New Concepts In Piano Trio Jazz)
  • Emily Remler - Catwalk (from Catwalk)
  • Charles Lloyd - Beyond Darkness (from The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow)
  • David Murray Quartet - Free Mingus (from Francesca)
  • Bobby Previte - Memory Hole (from The Coalition Of The Willing)
  • Harris Eisenstadt - Redwood (from Old Growth Forest)
  • Thumbscrew - Somewhat Agree (from Wingbeats)
  • The Fourth Way - Brown Rice (from Werwolf)
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel - I'll Remember April (from Angular Blues)
  • Jimi Hendrix - Pali Gap (from South Saturn Delta)

This week, Sam wraps up the year by playing some of his favourite tracks from around the world in 2024. 

Thanks for tuning in all year, originally on Saturday and then on Sunday. The Mixtape will be back in the new year. 

GUM and Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Dud
Fontaines D.C. - Favourite
The WAEVE - City Lights
Primal Scream - Love Insurrection
Brittany Howard - What Now
The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years
Bardo - Love Song For No One
Moses Sumney - Vintage
The Smile - Bodies Laughing
Fabiana Palladino - Can You Look In The Mirror
Pet Shop Boys - Loneliness
Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana

It's the bFM Kids' Show Christmas Show! We're visited by reindeer and the pixies, we talk christmas trees, christmas plans and just generally have a jolly old time.

This is Lee's last show for the year, Finn will be running the good ship Kids' Show for the rest of the year and into the next; Lee will be back late January! 

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Years! 

Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!

 

Boris Karloff - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Marshall Cavendish - First Flight
Little Ripples - Haere mai ki te whariki
Petite Music Box - Coucou
Gayle Peevey - I want a hippotamus for Christmas
Tim Checkley - The Christmas Song
Itty Bitty Beats - Ellie the Christmas Elephant
Moe & Friends - Another Year of You
Captain Festus McBoyle - The Christmas Song
Claudia Robin Gunn - Cat in the Christmas Tree
Nat King Cole - Frosty the Snowman
Spike Jones - All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopys Christmas
Marshal Cavendsh - Snow Queen
John Williamson - Christmas Photo
Stan Freberg - Christmas Dragnet