Day 287: New Year’s Day, U2
Really there was no other song to choose was there?
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Covid Island Discs
Day 286: Do they know it’s Covid Time, Joe
Staying with the comedy, I think this is the song to finish the year on as it summaries the UK Tory government nicely. Let’s hope 2021 is a better year but it feels like an impossibly long time to wait before this current crop of cabinet charlatans (I mean ministers) are finally prised from the
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Day 285: Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree, Mel and Kim
Another bizarre unique Christmas video. The other thing that keeps me going in life is comedy and one of my all time favourite double acts were Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Their head to heads were hilarious but this head to head quickly takes an interesting Christmas musical twist with none other but Kim
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Day 284: All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey
A nice happy and I guess pretty popular Christmas song for that middling time between Christmas and New Year’s day when you feel like you have gained a few extra pounds and are beginning to wonder what next year will bring.
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Day 283: Merry Christmas Darling, Karen Carpenter.
As everyone will be well aware there are plenty of Christmas classics that fill our radio stations every year. While I have included some I am also on the hunt for less well known ones for Covid Island Discs. I have only ever posted one Carpenter hit so far all the way back on day
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Day 282: Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth) David Bowie & Bing Crosby
This is such an utterly bizarre video in my opinion and well worth watching if you’ve never seen it. Who would have guessed that two very accomplished and famous musicians from opposite ends of the musical spectrum and from different generations would one day come together to produce this Christmas song. Like Bowie’s reference to
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Day 281: Cold as Christmas, Elton John
Back to rock star Christmas theme songs which I think deserve to be in Covid Island Discs. This song brings back some good memories for me as I went to see Elton John in concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney just after he released the album Too Low for Zero. Cold as Christmas
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Day 280: O Come all ye faithful (Christmas Day)
Sing choirs of angels Sing in exaltation Oh sing all ye citizens of Heaven above Glory to God All glory in the highest O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord Happy Christmas everyone!
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Day 279: Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Christmas Eve)
This is one of my all time favourite Christmas carols. As I get older, I realise the reality in which we find ourselves leaves us with a stark choice. We can make our way through life looking for the odd joy here and there but anyone who really ponders the human condition realises that if
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Day 278: Fairytale of New York, The Pogues
OK so I’m still prioritizing Christmas songs I enjoy over cheery content. This song from the Pogues is a classic although again doesn’t quite fit the traditional Christmas theme. However, in all honesty the song does touch on a Christmas reality that all social workers know about. My first job was working in a drug
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