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Hello December

11/30/2014

Hi All!

In a blur of turkey, parades and Black Friday sales, November is on its way out and December is here!

Thanks so much to everyone who has already stopped by and shared some of this early part of the season with us! We already have listeners in all 50 states, Washington, DC and 79 other countries and territories!

This week, we added new music from Marillion, the Commited, Gregory Abbott, the Baha Men, All-4-One and the Flaming Lips (with Yoko Ono) (just to name a few)! And there's still plenty more to come (including a "new" Christmas song from the Bay City Rollers)!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour are rolling along. The All Request Hour airs weekdays from noon to 1:00pm Eastern, and you can make your requests HERE. The New Music Hour airs weeknights from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern), and you can get an idea of some of the new music we're playing on our new NEW FOR 2014 page.

And at 1:00am and 7:00am, and 1:00pm and 7:00pm, you'll get an hour's worth of Christmas music from the Stars of the Sounds of Christmas - spotlighting the singers and bands who have supported us in the past, and continue to support us, with their time, talent and treasure!

Special thanks to Michael Dulin, Jean Watson, Rick Lang, Debi Smith and Larry Carltonfor sponsoring this year's broadcast and joining the Sounds of Christmas family! And extra special thanks to Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Danny Wright andShelby Lynne for returning for another season to help get us running, and keep us running! Without them, there wouldn't be a Sounds of Christmas!  You can click on each of their names and visit their homes on the web, check out their music, and, if so moved, buy their stuff! Or look them up on Amazon, iTunes, etc. Or just visit them on Facebook or Twitter and show them some love!

Starting this Tuesday, and following on every Tuesday in December, we're bringing back Two For Tuesdays! All day long you'll get two songs in a row from all your favorite Christmas music artists!

I think that's all the news, so here is this week's new top ten list (it's actually a top twenty list, since we play thousands of Christmas songs, it's hard to limit it to just ten)!

1) Kelly Clarkson
"Please Come Home For Christmas"

2) John Schneider and Tom Wopat
"Sleigh Ride"

3) Wonder Girls
"Best Christmas Ever"

4) Jamestown Story (featuring Michelle Rene)
"Wherever You Are"

5) Marilyn Scott
"Christmas Time Is Here"

6) Darlene Love
"All Alone On Christmas"

7) Mickey Thomas
"Step Into Christmas"

8) Tina Lambert
"O Christmas Tree"

9) Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Nutrocker"

10) Dean Martin
"A Marshmallow World"

11) Hayseed Dixie
"Misty Wonderland Hop"

12) Michael Keaton
"Frosty The Snowman"

13) Nancy Wilson
"That's What I Want For Christmas"

14) Natalie Cole
"A Song For Christmas"

15) Queen
"Thank God It's Christmas"

16) Sleeping At Last
"Christmas All Around Us"

17) Tommy James and the Shondells
"It's Christmas Again"

18) Elvis Presley
"It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You)"

19) Richard Marx
"Christmas Spirit"

20) Brian Courtney Wilson with Gene Moore
"This Christmas"

Thanks again for listening and sharing your holiday celebration with us! If you know someone who loves Christmas music, please send them our way!

And may you always believe in Santa Claus!

Ken

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Alice's Restaurant

11/23/2014

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Hi All!

Wow! I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving (here in the U.S.)!

Thanks so much to everyone who has already stopped by and shared some of this early part of the season with us! We already have listeners in all 50 states, Washington, DC and 62 other countries and territories!

This week, we added new music from Sara Evans, Sarah Crowe, Kevin Ross, Sleeping At Last, Carly Jamison, Meghan Trainor and Fifth Harmony (just to name a few)! And there's plenty more to come!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour are rolling along. The All Request Hour airs weekdays from noon to 1:00pm Eastern, and you can make your requests HERE. The New Music Hour airs weeknights from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern), and you can get an idea of some of the new music we're playing on our new NEW FOR 2014 page.

And at 1:00am and 7:00am, and 1:00pm and 7:00pm, you'll get an hour's worth of Christmas music from the Stars of the Sounds of Christmas - spotlighting the singers and bands who have supported us in the past, and continue to support us, with their time, talent and treasure!

Special thanks to Michael Dulin, Jean Watson, Rick Lang, Debi Smith and Larry Carltonfor sponsoring this year's broadcast and joining the Sounds of Christmas family! And extra special thanks to Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Danny Wright andShelby Lynne for returning for another season to help get us running, and keep us running! Without them, there wouldn't be a Sounds of Christmas!  You can click on each of their names and visit their homes on the web, check out their music, and, if so moved, buy their stuff! Or look them up on Amazon, iTunes, etc. Or just visit them on Facebook or Twitter and show them some love!

A couple other programming notes to mention. First, we've gotten a lot of requests to play Arlo Guthroe's "Alice's Restaurant" on Thanksgiving. We're going to do it again this year. So if you'd like to hear that on your Thanksgiving, you'll get three opportunities - 10:00am, 4:00pm and 10:00pm (all times Eastern). The first one will be the original recording. The second will be an update Arlo did in the 1990's. The third will include a recent performance from Australia about the difficulty in Remembering Alice, along with the original version!

Here are the three different versions, if you want to get one for yourself...

And then, once we're into December, Two For Tuesdays will be back! Every Tuesday in December, you'll hear two in a row from all your favorite singers and bands!

That's the news for now, so let's move on to this week's top twenty! Since the Sounds of Christmas plays so many songs, all the top ten's are actually top twenty's. It just seems hard to limit it to only ten, when we play so many!

By the way, here's how the rating system works at Live 365. To be able to vote on songs, you have to have an account with Live 365. This is free and only takes a minute or two to set up. Just go to their home page RIGHT HERE and click LOG IN/SIGN UP in the upper right. Then follow the prompts to start a new account.

To vote, listen through the Live 365 website HERE. On the player, you'll see a cartoon "thumbs up" hand and a cartoon "thumbs down". Click on either during the song you want to vote on. Oh, and Live 365 also counts it as a "thumbs down" vote when you turn off the station, so don't turn us off when it's a song you really like. Hope that all makes sense! If not, you can check out a previous blog which goes into a little more details RIGHT HERE!

And starting this week, we're presenting the top twenty a little differently. Each one is clickable, so if there's something you don't recognize, you can click it and go to directly to its page on Amazon, where you can hear a sound sample (and even buy it if you want)!

Anyway, here's this week's list of the highest-rated songs on the Sounds of Christmas....

1) Tommy James and the Shondells
"It's Christmas Again"

2) Marilyn Scott "Christmas Time Is Here"

3) Brian Courtney Wilson with Gene Moore
"This Christmas"

4) Chuck Berry
"Run Rudolph Run"

5) Natalie Cole
"A Song For Christmas"

6) Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Nutrocker"

7) Tina Lambert
"O Christmas Tree"

8) Daryl Hall and Jose Feliciano
"Christmas Must Be Tonight"

9) Nancy Wilson
"That's What I Want For Christmas"

10) Michael Keaton "Frosty The Snowman"

11) Sleeping At Last "Christmas All Around Us"

12) Mickey Thomas
"Step Into Christmas"

13) John Lennon
"Happy Xmas"

14) Huey Lewis and the News
"Winter Wonderland"

15) Ramsey Lewis Trio "The Sound of Christmas"

16) Darlene Love
"All Alone On Christmas"

17) Aretha Franklin "Winter Wonderland"

18) Lisa Kessler
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

19) Richard Marx "Christmas Spirit"

20) Dean Martin
"A Marshmallow World"

Thanks again for listening and sharing your holiday celebration with us! If you know someone who loves Christmas music, please send them our way!

And may you always believe in Santa Claus!

Ken

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Halfway Through November

11/15/2014

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Hi All!

We're half through November, and speeding along toward Thanksgiving already!

Thanks so much for spending this early part of the season with us! We already have listeners in 47 states, Washington, DC and 47 other countries and territories!

If you know someone in Alaska, Vermont or Wyoming, please send them our way so we officially cover the whole country!

We're still loading lots of music, including plenty of new music (like Band Aid 30, which we should be debuting this Monday). Over 2100 songs are already up and playing!

The All Request Hour is back at noon each weekday (click REQUESTS to make yours) and the New Music Hour is back at 8:00pm each weeknight (all times are Eastern). Two For Tuesdays should be also be back in the next week or so!

Special thanks to Michael Dulin, Jean Watson, Rick Lang, Debi Smith and Larry Carlton for sponsoring this year's broadcast and joining the Sounds of Christmas family! And extra special thanks to Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Danny Wright and Shelby Lynne for returning for another season to help get us running, and keep us running! Without them, there wouldn't be a Sounds of Christmas! You can click on each of their names and visit their homes on the web, check out their music, and, if so moved, buy their stuff! Or look them up on Amazon, iTunes, etc. Or just visit them on Facebook or Twitter and show them some love!

That's the news for now, so let's move on to new twenty! Since the Sounds of Christmas plays so many songs, all the top ten's are actually top twenty's. It just seems hard to limit it to only ten, when we play so many!

By the way, here's how the rating system works at Live 365. To be able to vote on songs, you have to have an account with Live 365. This is free and only takes a minute or two to set up. Just go to their home page RIGHT HERE and click LOG IN/SIGN UP in the upper right. Then follow the prompts to start a new account.

To vote, listen through the Live 365 website HERE. On the player, when you hover your mouse over it, you'll see a cartoon "thumbs up" hand and a cartoon "thumbs down". Click on either during the song you want to vote on. Oh, and Live 365 also counts it as a "thumbs down" vote when you turn off the station, so don't turn us off when it's a song you really like. Hope that all makes sense! If not, you can check out a previous blog which goes into a little more details RIGHT HERE!

Anyway, here's this week's list of the highest-rated songs on the Sounds of Christmas....

1) Trans-Siberian Orchestra "Nutrocker"
2) Daryl Hall and Jose Feliciano "Christmas Must Be Tonight"
3) Dean Martin "A Marshmallow World
4) Brian Courtney Wilson and Gene Moore "This Christmas"
5) Marilyn Scott "Christmas Time Is Here"
6) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles "Christmas Everyday"
7) Sleeping At Last "Christmas All Around Us"
8) Tommy James "It's Christmas Again"
9) Mickey Thomas "Step Into Christmas"
10) Kathy Sledge "Christmas Waltz"
11) Darlene Love "All Alone On Christmas"
12) Chuck Berry "Run Rudolph Run"
13) Aretha Franklin "Winter Wonderland"
14) Polyphonic Spree "Happy Xmas"
15) Tina Lambert "O Christmas Tree"
16) Natalie Cole "A Song For Christmas"
17) Lunch At Allen's "Zuzu's Petals"
18) Richard Marx "Christmas Spirit"
19) Pomplamoose "Jingle Bells"
20) Nancy Wilson "That's What I Want For Christmas"

Thanks again for listening, and sharing the beginning of the season with us! If you know someone who loves Christmas music, please send them my way!

And may you always believe in Santa Claus!

Ken

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First Top Ten of 2014

11/9/2014

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Hi All!

Well, it's hard to believe, but we've already been back on for just over a week! And we already have listeners in 44 states, Washington, DC and 39 other countries and territories! Thanks so much for giving us such an awesome start!

As usual, it's very busy here. We're constantly loading music and going through stacks of the latest CDs and mp3s (not really stacks of mp3s, but you know what I mean). The first 2000 songs are already up and playing, and there are plenty more on the way!

The All Request Hour is back at noon each weekday (click REQUESTS to make yours) and the New Music Hour is back at 8:00pm each weeknight (all times are Eastern). With luck, Two For Tuesdays should be running by Thanksgiving!

Special thanks to Michael Dulin, Jean Watson, Rick Lang, Debi Smith and Larry Carlton for sponsoring this year's broadcast and joining the Sounds of Christmas family! And extra special thanks to Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Danny Wright and Shelby Lynne for returning for another season to help get us running, and keep us running! Without them, there wouldn't be a Sounds of Christmas! You can click on each of their names and visit their homes on the web, check out their music, and, if so moved, buy their stuff! Or look them up on Amazon, iTunes, etc. Or just visit them on Facebook or Twitter and show them some love!

That's the news for now, so let's move on to our first top twenty of the season! Since the Sounds of Christmas plays so many songs, all the top ten's are actually top twenty's. It just seems hard to limit it to only ten, when we play so many!

By the way, here's how the rating system works at Live 365. To be able to vote on songs, you have to have an account with Live 365. This is free and only takes a minute or two to set up. Just go to their home page RIGHT HERE and click LOG IN/SIGN UP in the upper right. Then follow the prompts to start a new account.

To vote, listen through the Live 365 website HERE. On the player, when you hover your mouse over it, you'll see a cartoon "thumbs up" hand and a cartoon "thumbs down". Click on either during the song you want to vote on. Oh, and Live 365 also counts it as a "thumbs down" vote when you turn off the station, so don't turn us off when it's a song you really like. Hope that all makes sense! If not, you can check out a previous blog which goes into a little more details RIGHT HERE!

Anyway, here's this week's list of the highest-rated songs on the Sounds of Christmas....

1) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles "Christmas Everyday"
2) Marilyn Scott "Christmas Time Is Here"
3) Daryl Hall and Jose Feliciano "Christmas Must Be Tonight"
4) Larry Carlton "The First Noel"
5) Zoe Bentley with Canadian Brass "Very Merry Christmas"
6) Yule Logs "North Pole 45789"
7) Susan Boyle "I Believe In Father Christmas"
8) Perry Como "That Christmas Feeling"
9) Lisa Kessler "The Christmas Song"
10) Harry Connick Jr. "When My Heart Finds Christmas"
11) Darlene Love with the Brian Setzer Orchestra "Deep In The Heart Of Xmas"
12) Anthony Hamilton "Tis The Season"
13) Carole King "Love For Christmas"
14) Empty Pockets "Run Run Rudolph"
15) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "Little Drummer Boy"
16) Michael Dulin "Deck The Halls"
17) Rod Stewart "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
18) Vanessa Williams "Christmas Time Is Here"
19) Whitney Houston "Joy To The World"
20) Queen "Thank God It's Christmas"

Thanks again for listening, and sharing the beginning of the season with us! If you know someone who loves Christmas music, please send them my way!

And may you always believe in Santa Claus!

Ken

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