Side A
Artist	Song
Darlene Love	Christmas ( Baby Please Come Home)
Roy Orbison	You Got It
David Bowie	Absolute Beginners ( live)
Elvis!	Merry Christmas, Baby
Aretha Franklin	The Weight
Black Crowes	Seein Things
Bob Dylan	Shelter from the Storm
Kinks	Father Christmas
Pretenders	The Phone Call
Rolling Stones	Respectable
Otis Redding	Merry Christmas Baby
Crystals	Rudolph
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Norman Blake	Man of Constant Sorrow
John Lennon	War is Over
CSNY	Teach Your Children
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band	Spike Driver's Blues ( live)
Allman Bros.	Little Matha
Stevie Ray Vaughn	Riviera Paradise
Crystals	Santa Claus is Comin to Town
Blondie	T-Birds
Peter Wolf	Oh, Marianne
Johnny Cash	Hurt
Ronettes	I Saw Mommy Kissin Santa Claus

Comment:

Well, it's mostly my usual gang of suspects plus Christmas tunes. I could never make a mix that was nothing *but* Chritmas music-- it'd bore the crap outta me just trying to make the thing. A preponderance here taken from the Phil Spector Christmas album, A Christmas Gift For You, but seeing as how it's an essential, how to complain? Two versions of Merry Christmas, Baby, because you gotta have Elvis on a mix, as Dom points out, and because it's such a great tune and Otis does such a great version himself. The Kinks tune is an all-time fave and you can't make a Christmas mix without " War is Over"... can you?

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