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NY Standard – Episode 136 – Happy & Merry 2015

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This year’s Christmas show is unique & yet, a lot of it is the same.  You can still hear the entire original Nat King Cole Christmas record – long since out of print – in its entirety here.  You can also hear some lovely singer/songwriters do their takes on more modern winter songs & a few of my choice Irish traditional Christmas music, too.

But, as it is, week-in week-out, this show is mostly dedicated to traditional Christmas music from my childhood.

I love them all & I hope you do, too.

May you ALL have a Happy & Merry season!

NY Standard – Episode 135 – Lush & Lovely – Thanksgiving 2015

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This week’s show is dedicated to the most beautiful music you’ve ever heard.  Long, lush lines of music…

It is built to set & forget so you can press play & go about your day as you cook, bake, clean or entertain.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 92 – Christmas 2014

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This year’s Christmas show clocks in at well over 4 hours – and I couldn’t be happier about that!

If you love Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald or nearly any form of traditional Christmas music, you’ll enjoy this show.

Here’s the list of the other artist’s featured on this year’s show:

  • Perry Como
  • Bing Crosby
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Andy Williams
  • Doris Day
  • Vince Guaraldi
  • Ashley MacIssac
  • Declan Masterson
  • The Night Heron Consort
  • Altan
  • Cormac Breatnach
  • Aine Minogue
  • Loreena McKennitt
  • Anuna
  • George Winston
  • Burl Ives
  • Mel Torme
  • Bobby Helms
  • Brenda Lee
  • Bessie Smith
  • Otis Redding
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
  • Roy Orbison
  • Elvis Presley
  • U2
  • Lisa Hannigan
  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Kate Bush
  • John Gorka
  • Gene Autry
  • The Boston Pops as conducted by Arthur Fiedler
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Nat King Cole
  • Julie Andrews
  • The Robert Shaw Chorale
  • Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Leontyne Price
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • Judy Garland
  • Guy Lombardo

See what I mean?  4 and 1/2 hours!

I wish you all an AMAZING holiday season & a WONDERFUL New Year!

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 91 – Thanksgiving (and a dash of Christmas)!

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You want 3+ hours of gorgeous luscious music?  You’ve got it!

This is the 2014 Thanksgiving episode.  It’s dedicated to lush, beautiful music that is fitting for cooking & baking the day before Thanksgiving, while you eat your meal or as you relax throughout this long, holiday weekend.

It’s rare that I play what some might consider “background” music.  But, to me, listening to these luscious melodies is a joy.  So, enjoy!

Here are this week’s artists:

  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Anita O’Day
  • Annie Lennox
  • Ann Hampton Calloway
  • Art Tatum
  • Arthur Prysock
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bernadette Peters
  • Bill Evans
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bobby Darin
  • Carmen McRae
  • Charles Mingus
  • Chet Baker
  • Clifford Brown
  • Count Basie
  • Dinah Shore
  • Dinah Washington
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Frank Sinatra
  • George Shearing
  • Glenn Miller
  • Helen Merrill
  • Jimmy Dorsey & Tommy Dorsey
  • Jimmy Rushing
  • John Coltrane
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Lester Young
  • Nat King Cole
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Tony Bennett
  • Vince Guaraldi
  • Frank Sinatra