20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each week hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
COMPACT DISC-USION: “When Merry met Sappy…” (1993) Today is Thanksgiving which means you’ve already heard “Christmas Wrapping” 16 times at your local coffee shop. But maybe your ideal carols don’t include wishing you a Funky Funky X-Mas. Maybe you want something just a little more … traditional. Bob and Tim think they might so they are big banding their way though Harry Connick Jr’s “When My Heart Finds Christmas.” It’s 14 tracks of festive spirit, holiday cheer and enough smugness to make Billy Crystal second guess his stand-up career. Ho-Ho-Horns Aplenty!
00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - maybe having a lot to say about this album
00:00:45 THE CD IS … WHEN MY HEART FINDS CHRISTMAS - and streaming of a white Christmas
00:05:48 SLEIGH RIDE - talking about whose g-g-g-generation?
00:12:38 WHEN MY HEART FINDS CHRISTMAS - a smug elf on the smug shelf
00:17:28 (IT MUST’VE BEEN OL’) SANTA CLAUS - and somebody call PETA on this guy
00:20:08 THE BLESSED DAWN OF CHRISTMAS DAY - Hymnal and void
00:23:11 LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW - under warm covers
00:26:57 THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - got a background beat you can wrap to
00:29:22 AVE MARIA - and DID Tim mention Chris Cornell?
00:32:36 PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS - rock out with your clock out
00:36:03 WHAT CHILD IS THIS? - Dominion over Nominal Non-denominational denominations
00:38:50 CHRISTMAS DREAMING - and DID Bob mention the Ray Coniff Singers?
00:40:44 I PRAY ON CHRISTMAS - oh no … Doo-Wop
00:45:38 RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER - why have it covered?
00:47:59 O HOLY NIGHT - weird place for an Oasis shout-out
00:52:05 WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE? - trashing that kid on Third Rock From The Sun
00:55:43 WINTERY MIX-TAPE - did their hearts find Christmas albums?
01:00:09 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
01:03:10 UNSOLICITED COMMENTARY - Bob and Tim talk over the WHEN MY HEART FINDS CHRISTMAS VIDEO
Synch the end of this week's podcast to the other side of a window gaze of Harry Connick Jr. in the WHEN MY HEART FINDS CHRISTMAS OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO.
Hear Harry explain his own brand of ahm … New Orleans .. Christmas … ahhh .. magic, I guess … with this LIVE PERFORMANCE OF I’LL BE HOME OR CHRISTMAS from 1993’s “The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special.”
Whisper the name of the song from The Mask soundtrack that Tim couldn't remember with the OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR (I COULD ONLY) WHISPER YOUR NAME.
Warm yourself by the burning smugness of that kid on Third Rock From The Sun with WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR'S AS PERFORMED BY ZOOEY DESCHANEL AND JODEPH GORDON-LEVITT.
Watch a well fiddled version of I SAW THREE SHIPS AS PERFORMED BY STING at the A Winter's Night Live From Durham Cathedral (2009).
See how Harry Connick Jr. takes a commercial break with this LIVE PERFORMANCE OF O’ HOLY NIGHT FROM THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW HARRY.
And, finally, understand why he’s better known as a crooner when SARAH MCLACHLAN AND HARRY TALK CHRISTMAS TUNES in an interminable 38 seconds from his since cancelled talk show HARRY.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Super Poupi ” (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.
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