Old Fezziwig's Ball returns for its ninth and penultimate year of delivering holiday tunes. Despite a very year filled with many highs and lows, it's nice to slow down as the year draws to a close, reflect on all the good and the challenging, and take some time to assemble a new batch of music. As I promised last year, I'll be ending this nonsense next year at the 10 year mark, and that feels about right. At this point, embedding dropbox folders with mp3 files on this blog feels quaint and outdated, what with Spotify and Turntable.fm making it much easier to create playlists and share music instantly. However, I made a promise and I sticking to it...Some notes for this year: I'll be cleaning up past entries and making sure that each year's worth of mixes are available for zipped downloads. Also, some bigwig record companies decided to block some of the videos I have featured in the past, so those will be removed. And, I'll be honest, I can't really remember if certain songs have appeared on past mixers, and the search function on this blog site seems to be malfunctioning, so if you hear a repeat, just remember the sheer volume that I have thrown up here!
For the first time since 2008, the majority of my music is accessible to me. I have moved away from storing on my older computer and keep it with me on the laptop now. Last year's compilation that featured the top of the pop chart hits in America and the UK during the holiday season of the 50s and 60s prompted me to seek out the legendary Beatles Fanclub Christmas 45s that they put out each year between 1963 - 1969, so I have included that as a bonus comp among the batch. You'll also find one mix where I leaned heavily on a spoken word theme and included several nuggets from a certain holiday classic that most folks will try to catch at least once this year (preferably in black and white). As always, I am throwing together mixes of indie, jazz, country, pop, and soul (no yacht rock yet - that's next year for the big finale). Hopefully a few of these tunes will get you in the spirit of the season. Happy Holidays everyone.
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