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After Christmas Top Ten

12/28/2013

Hi All!

I don't know if it's because Thanksgiving was late this year or if it's just the nature of things, but it sure seems like the season has flown by!

I do feel like I need to say that we aren't done, yet. I know there are a lot of people who have their Christmas trees out by the curb on the 26th. And most traditional radio stations have already pulled the plug on their Christmas music for the year.

But the Twelve Days of Christmas come AFTER Christmas, not before. So we will be on right through Epiphany.

I'd also like to thank everyone who has been listening this season. We had a sick dog on our house, who sadly passed away the day after Christmas. Taking care of her kept me from promoting the Sounds of Christmas as much as I'd like, and it means a lot that so many have shared some of their holiday with us, anyway!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour will continue through the end of December, so you still have time to get requests in and catch the latest new Christmas music! In fact, if there's something you'd like to hear, just click on the REQUEST tab at the top of the page and let me know about it! The All Request Hour is on December weekdays from noon to 1:00pm Eastern. The New Music Hour is on December weeknighst from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern).

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 DeDe, Kanisha K, Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Terence P. Minogue, Barbara Bretton, Louis Colaiannia, Natasha Miller, Danny Wright, James Robert Webb and Joel Kopischke for sponsoring this year's broadcast! 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 books, 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!

Oh, Two For Tuesdays will also continue til the end of December! Every Tuesday in December, you'll hear two in a row from all your favorite singers and bands!

If you would like to help us wrap up this season and get ready for the next, we'd be grateful for the assistance! You can get the details on how you can help RIGHT HERE!

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!

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

1) Nat King Cole Trio "The Christmas Song"
2) Jackie Wilson "Deck The Halls"
3) The Smithereens "Waking Up O Christmas Morning"
4) 3rd Echo "December Nights"
5) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "Little Drummer Boy"
6) Dave Davies "Father Christmas" (live)
7) Holiday Express "Disco Santa"
8) Lisa Kessler "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
9) Frank Sinatra "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"
10) Otis Redding "Merry Christmas, Baby"
11) Moe "Linus and Lucy"
12) Sleeping At Last "Christmas All Around Us"
13) B. B. King "Christmas Celebration"
14) Carole King "Sleigh Ride"
15) Ringo Starr "I Wanna Be Santa Claus"
16) Brian Setzer Orchestra "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"
17) The Band "Christmas Must Be Tonight"
18) Empty Pockets "Holly Jolly Christmas"
19) Ray Charles "That Spirit Of Christmas"
20) Tina Lambert "Caroling, Caroling"

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

The Top Ten Before Christmas

12/22/2013

Hi All!

It seems like we just got started, and now Christmas Day is almost here!

Thanks so much to everyone who has already stopped by and shared some of your holiday with us! Hope you're having a wonderful season, so far!

This week, we added new music from Sarah McLachlan, Scott MacIntyre, Harry Connick Jr., Jack Johnson and Marillion (just to name a few)! And there's plenty more to come!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour will continue through the end of December, so you still have time to get requests in and catch the latest new Christmas music! In fact, if there's something you'd like to hear, just click on the REQUEST tab at the top of the page and let me know about it! The All Request Hour is on every weekday from noon to 1:00pm Eastern. The New Music Hour is on each weeknight from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern).

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 DeDe, Kanisha K, Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Terence P. Minogue, Barbara Bretton, Louis Colaiannia, Natasha Miller, Danny Wright, James Robert Webb and Joel Kopischke for sponsoring this year's broadcast! 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 books, 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!

Oh, Two For Tuesdays will also continue til the end of December! 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!

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

1) Tey "Christmas Is Easy When Love Is Around"
2) Marillion "Carol Of The Bells"
3) Roger McGuinn "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
4) Soupy Sales "Santa Claus Is Surfin' To Town"
5) The Bobs "Fifty Kilowatt Tree"
6) Elton John and Joss Stone "Calling It Christmas"
7) Andy Williams "Hark The Herald Angels Sing"
8) Ingram Hill "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"
9) Melissa Etheridge "It's Christmas Time"
10) Reilly "Dear Santa (I Can Explain)"
11) Smashing Pumpkins "Christmastime"
12) Nick Lowe "Christmas At The Airport"
13) Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans "The Bells Of St. Mary"
14) Tom Lehrer "A Christmas Carol"
15) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "Run Rudolph Run"
16) Empty Pockets "Baby It's Cold Outside"
17) Fats Domino "Jingle Bells"
18) Lisa Kessler "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
19) Frank Sinatra "Mistletoe And Holly"
20) Ringo Starr "I Wanna Be Santa Claus"

This week, there are actually eight songs tied at 20, so here are the other seven...

20) Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas" (12" Mix)
20) Carole King "Sleigh Ride"
20) Honeymoon Suite "I Believe In Father Christmas"
20) Frank Sinatra "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"
20) Kimberley Locke "We Need a Little Christmas"
20) Wilson Pickett "Silver Bells"
20) Straight No Chaser "The 12 Days Of Christmas" (live)

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

Boston, Ashanti and Blue Sky Riders

12/14/2013

Hi All!

It seems like we're picking up speed and flying towards Christmas Day!

Thanks so much to everyone who has already stopped by and shared some of this early part of the season with us! Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season, so far!

This week, we added new music from Boston, Ashanti, Love Crushed Velvet, Blue Sky Riders, Noah, Jillaine, Ariana Grande, the Rocket Summer and Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox (just to name a few)! And there's plenty more to come!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour are back. In fact, if there's something you'd like to hear, just click on the REQUEST tab at the top of the page and let me know what you want to hear! The All Request Hour is on every weekday from noon to 1:00pm Eastern. The New Music Hour is on each weeknight from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern).

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 DeDe, Kanisha K, Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Terence P. Minogue, Barbara Bretton, Louis Colaiannia, Natasha Miller and Danny Wright for sponsoring this year's broadcast! 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 books, 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!

And finally, Two For Tuesdays are 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!

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

1) Wilson Pickett "Silver Bells"
2) The Beatles "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
3) Sand Dollar Rodeo "Island Holiday"
4) Slim Jim Phantom "Christmas Tree Boogie"
5) Roger McGuinn "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
6) Empty Pockets "Run Run Rudolph"
7) Johnny Mathis "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
8) Nick Lowe "Christmas at The Airport"
9) Natasha Miller "White Christmas"
10) Diana Krall "The Man With The Bag"
11) Frank Sinatra "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"
12) Ray Charles "That Spirit Of Christmas"
13) Kimberley Locke "We Need A Little Christmas"
14) Leigh Nash "Wishing For This"
15) Michael Keaton "Frosty the Snowman"
16) Diahann Carroll "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
17) Melinda Doolittle "God Bless Us Everyone"
18) Paul Simon "Getting Ready For Christmas Day"
19) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "It Feels Like Christmas Time"
20) Lisa Kessler "Away In A Manger"

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

Runaways, Zombies and GLEE

12/9/2013

Hi All!

Well we finally have our tree and it's nearly decorated! Hope you're enjoying this festive season (and that you really are finding it festive)!

Thanks so much to everyone who has already stopped by and shared some of this early part of the season with us! We now have listeners in all 50 states, Washington, DC and 105 other countries and territories!

This week, we added new music from Kenny Loggins, the Zombies, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie (from the Runaways), New Royalty, Leona Lewis, Killers, Jive Aces, Roger McGuinn and the Cast of GLEE (just to name a few)! And there's plenty more to come!

The All Request Hour and the New Music Hour are back. In fact, if there's something you'd like to hear, just click on the REQUEST tab at the top of the page and let me know what you want to hear! The All Request Hour is on every weekday from noon to 1:00pm Eastern. The New Music Hour is on each weeknight from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (Eastern).

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 DeDe, Kanisha K, Luanne Hunt, Sarah Pierce, Kenny Davies, Terence P. Minogue, Barbara Bretton, Louis Colaiannia, Natasha Miller and Danny Wright for sponsoring this year's broadcast! 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 books, 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!

And finally, Two For Tuesdays are 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!

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

1) NRBQ "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"
2) The Hipwaders "Yes It's Christmas"
3) Brian Wilson "What I Really Want For Christmas"
4) J.D. McPherson "Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights)"
5) Roger McGuinn "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
6) Killers "Feel It In My Bones"
7) Belinda Carlisle "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
8) Tom Lehrer "A Christmas Carol"
9) Empty Pockets "Run Run Rudolph"
10) Kimberley Locke "We Need A Little Christmas"
11) Ingram Hill "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"
12) Lisa Kessler "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
13) Josh Grobam "I'll Be Home For Christmas"
14) Katrina Carlson "You Are Christmas"
15) Natasha Miller "Christmas Time Is Here"
16) Carla Thomas "Gee Whiz It's Christmas"
17) James Brown "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay"
18) The Bobs "Fifty Kilowatt Tree"
19) Dreams So Real "Red Lights (Merry Christmas)"
20) New Royalty "I Believe It's Christmas Time"

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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