Some brief commentary by me, five satiric songs, and an imitation Broadway "big production number." All take a comic but critical view of American hypocrisies, religiosity, commercialism, militarism, class warfare, and other Christmastime traditions. See "Notes" for playlist.
This program has been broadcast from time to time in years past--most recently in December 2015
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "first floor") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Playlist: Hugh Blumenfeld, "Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew" Simon and Garfunkel, "Silent Night / Six O'Clock News" Anne Feeney, "Brave New Christmas" Roy Zimmerman, "Buy War Toys for Christmas" Stan Freberg, "Green Chri$tma$" Tom Lehrer, "A Christmas Carol"
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes355-ComicSatireForChristmas
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
NOTE:MP3 files downloaded from the liinks, below, are identified as NWN #355.