The Big Takeover Show – Number 466 – December 25, 2023 - Happy X-Mas Show!

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DJ Jack Rabid
Benny Lee & The Ken-Tones & Orchestra Conducted by Ron Goodwin – Rock ’N’ Rollin’ Santa Claus (single) 1956
The Libertines (U.K.) – Run Run Run (All Quiet åon the Eastern Esplanade) brand new
Velcros – Troubled Mind (Strange News From the Vault) brand new
Joel Stoker – I Go to Sleep (The Undertow) new
Dennis Davison – Life of a Song (Voice Memorandum) brand new
Piltdown Men – Piltdown Rides Again (single) 1960
Mabel Scott – Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (single)
Teresa Jennings – Rock n Roll Snowman (Music K-8) 2011
DJ Jack Rabid
Putney Dandridge & His Orchestra – Santa Claus Came in the Spring (single) 1935; Johnny Mercer song
The Anderson Council – Do You Remember Walter? (various, Jem Records Celebrates Ray Davies) new; Kinks cover
Black Swan Lane – Covenant (Dead Souls Collide) brand new
NORMANS – Anti-Crusoe (NORMANS) brand new
The Monkees – House of Broken Gingerbread (The Monkees Christmas Album) 2018; co-written by Adam Schlesinger
The Ethiopians – Ding Dong Bell (single) 1968
Sheb Wooley – Santa and the Purple People Eater (single) 1958
DJ Jack Rabid
Four Bands Interviewed in Big Takeover Issue 93:
Modernettes – Rebel Kind (View From the Bottom EP) 1982; reissued now
Mountain Goats – Clean Slate (Jenny From Thebes) new
Crime and the City Solution – Brave Hearted Woman (the killer) new
Sweeping Promises – Eraser (Good Living is Coming For You) new
Harry Lee – Rockin’ on a Reindeer (single) 1959
Fats Domino – I Told Santa Claus (Christmas is a Special Day) 1993
Bob Rivers – Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (CHECK More Twisted Christmas) 1997
DJ Jack Rabid, DJ Jim Santo
Jim Santo Guest DJ Set: Jim’s Tribute to 1980, Part 2 of 2!
The Joe Jackson Band – Someone Up There (Beat Crazy!) 1980
The English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom (I Just Can’t Stop It) 1980
The B-52’s – Strobe Light (Wild Planet) 1980
Devo – Girl U Want (Freedom of Choice) 1980
Adam & the Ants – Antmusic (Kings of the Wild Frontier) 1980
Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare (Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables) 1980
X – Your Phone’s Off The Hook, But You’re Not (Los Angeles) 1980
The Damned – Wait for the Blackout (The Black Album) 1980
DJ Jim Santo, DJ Jack Rabid
The Orioles – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? (single) 1949

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