Here is a sample of what's being played on Holiday Soul, which occupies SiriusXM Channel 49 from now through Christmas day.
SiriusXM 49 - Holiday Soul
A Joyous Song - Boyz II Men (1993)
Amen -...
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Here is a sample of what's being played on Holiday Soul, which occupies SiriusXM Channel 49 from now through Christmas day.
SiriusXM 49 - Holiday Soul
A Joyous Song - Boyz II Men (1993)
Amen -...
Whoever programs Holiday Traditions (Channel 73, November 1 through December 25) must have just discovered Spirit Of The Holidays, a 2005 double-CD by smooth-jazz pianist Lisa Addeo. She released it...
Country Christmas, Channel 58, just played an unusual version of Peter Wilhousky's Carol Of The Bells (which he set to the tune of Shchedyrk, a 1916 Ukrainian carol) by the Nashville Mandolin...
Christmas Spirit features holiday songs by contemporary Christian artists. It's on SiriusXM online channel 787 from November 1 through December 14 and then on channel 63 (The Message) December 20-25....
The Hallmark Channel evolved from two Christian cable television networks and officially launched in August 2001. Every year since 2009, the Hallmark Channel has begun airing Christmas movies in late...
Oscar McLollie -- his real name was Oscar Mack Lollie -- was a Louisiana-born jump blues singer who, between 1952 and 1960, released 15 solo singles and two singles with Jeanette Baker. His only...
Rockin' Christmas occupies online channel 781 through December 26. You have to take the bad with the good. You'll hear an X-rated song about a naked Santa getting stuck in a chimney and you'll hear...
The Hays Office was named for attorney William Hays, an attorney and president of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America. The Hays Office, which enforced the Motion Picture Production...
All those baseless, idiotic complaints about this supposed "date-rape" song certainly boosted sales for ol' Dino. Dean died on Christmas Day 1995. I wonder what he would have thought about all this...
Acoustic Christmas, online channel 779, began simulcasting today on channel 14. Here is what was just played. I'm not really sure what "acoustic" means but I think it must be a synonym for "secular."...
Country Christmas just played All I Want For Christmas Is You by Vince Vance & the Valiants. Lisa Layne, the lead singer, starred in the touring musicals A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline and Always,...
I was surprised to hear It Feels Like Christmas on Holiday Traditions. The Muppets sing the song to Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Michael Caine) in the 1992 movie The Muppet Christmas Carol. The film...
This is making the rounds on the World Wide Web -- and I wouldn't be surprised if these Christmas song bans someday come to pass:
Dear Radio Station,
Since you decided to pull Baby It’s Cold...
Here is an excerpt of a column by Los Angeles Times writer Libby Hill. I'm guessing she was named for the late 1960s Women's Lib movement. Hey, Libby, instead of criticizing an Academy Award-winning...
The Country Christmas channel just played Ronnie Milsap's It's Christmas, written by Thomas Cain and Joe Nelson. It was released in December 1983 (RCA 13665) with We're Here To Love on the B-side....
Run Rudolph Run was written by Johnny Marks and "M, Brodie." Marks also wrote A Holly Jolly Christmas, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree and Rudolph The Red Nosed...
As adults, we know Santa Claus, elves, flying reindeer, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy are not real. (In truth, aduts have to be Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy.) But...
Holiday Chill Out, which occupies SiriusXM Channel 783 now through December 26, has a bizarre mix of music -- and I mean "mix" in both senses of the word. Some of the songs they're playing, such as...
Channel 3, Holiday Traditions, just played Mabel Scott's Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, a #12 r&b hit from December 1948. Four months earlier, she reached #6 with Elevator Boogie, which featured Charles...
We need Linus to tell us what "Christmas is all about," like he told Charlie Brown. Holly, which occupies SiriusXM Channel 4 through December 28, seems to be playing an unusually high percentage of...
Anyone who likes jazz will enjoy SiriusXM's Jazz Holidays channel -- as long as you don't expect to hear legends such as Miles Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker,...
What good timing! Tomorrow, eight SiriusXM Christmas channels will launch -- and today, the London Independent shared this bit of news:
Listening to too much Christmas music is bad for your...
For those of you who watch Hallmark's mystery movies, I want to assure you that Candace Cameron-Bure will not be stumbling across any dead bodies on this new channel.
Hallmark Channel to present...
Merry Chrisrnas! Happy Hanukkah! Yes, I know it's only October but SiriusXM just released details of this year's holiday channels. The complete press release is linked below. I had to do a lot of...