'll be sliding down your chimney with a sack full of soul! We'll celebrate the season with Cheech & Chong, Run DMC, and Miles Davis, hear a trio of blue Christmas tunes, and hear a classic Christmas tale ready by the great Louis Armstrong!
UpFront Soul #2020.51 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading / Back to the Night / Back to the Night / A&M James Brown / Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto / James Brown's Funky Christmas / The Jive Turkeys / Funky Jesus / Funky Jesus / Colemine Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects / It's a Holiday Soul Party / Daptone Detroit Junior / Christmas Day / Gonna Have a Really Soulful Christmas: 40 R&B and Soul Gems (An Alternative Yuletide Celebration!) / Run Dmc / Christmas in Hollis / GREATEST HITS / Profil Cheech & Chong / Santa Claus & His Old Lady / Santa Claus & His Old Lady / Louis Armstrong / Twas the Night Before Christmas / Louis Armstrong Narrates "Twas the Night Before Christmas" / The Christmas Jug Band / Santa Lost a Ho / Uncorked / Globe Records The Ronettes / Sleigh Ride / A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector / Legacy Recordings Ron Holden / Who Says There Ain't No Santa Claus? / Bummed out Christmas / Johnny & Jon / Christmas in Vietnam / Bummed Out Christmas / Rhino The Midnighters / Christmastime for Everybody But Me / Gonna Have a Really Soulful Christmas: 40 R&B and Soul Gems (An Alternative Yuletide Celebration!) / Lambert, Hendricks & Ross / Deck Us All With Boston Charlie / Hipsters' Holiday: Vocal Jazz & R&B Classics / Kermit Ruffins / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Have a Crazy Cool Christmas / Basin St. Records The Marquees / Santa Done Got Hip / Hipsters' Holiday: Vocal Jazz & R&B Classics / Rose Graham / Black Christmas / Have a Simply Grand Christmas: Sounds of Memphis, Vol. 1 / Soulful Strings with Dorothy Ashby / Merry Christmas Baby / The Magic of Christmas / Cadet Miles Davis / Blue Christmas (To Whom it May Concern) / Jingle Bell Jazz / Columbia Records Louis Armstrong & The Commanders / Zat You, Santa Claus? / The Best Of Louis Armstrong & Friends / Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Playhouse Review / O Tannenbaum O Christmas Tree / A New Orleans Creole Christmas / C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band / Zydeco Christmas / Alligator Records Genuine Houserockin' Christmas / Alligator Don Bryant / White Christmas / Christmas Soul / Soul Rebels / What Christmas Means / Christmas Soul / James Brown / Go Power at Christmas Time / James Brown's Funky Christmas / Mahalia Jackson / Go Tell it on the Mountain / Gospel Christmas/Silent Night / Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir / Joyful Noise / Like a Ship / Light In The Attic The Drinkard Sisters / When I Rise In the Morning / Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol. 1 / The Gospel Clouds / Search Me Lord / Keep On Praying / They Abyssinian Baptist Choir / Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody / Shakin' the Rafters / Mahalia Jackson / In the Upper Room / Moving On Up a Little Higher / Shanachie Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / God Rest Ye Merry Gents / It's a Holiday Soul Party / Daptone Sam Cooke / Havin' a Party / Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 / RCA