For the third year, Morning Edition Host Rick Ganley and Producer Emily Quirk team up for two hours packed with under-appreciated holiday tunes, requested by you!
(Note: to download the audio files on this page, right-click on the player arrow and select "open in new tab." Then click on the three dots next to the player on display to download the .mp3 file.)
This year also features in-studio performaces by a variety of NHPR reporters and producers, including:
- Nick Capodice, Civics 101
- Sarah Gibson, Southern NH & education reporter
- Taylor Quimby, Patient Zero
- Jason Moon, Bear Brook
- Dave Anderson, Something Wild
Scroll to the bottom of this post if you want to hear the songs recorded by NHPR folks, and thanks to everyone who sent in their requests over the last few weeks!
This programs originally aired on December 21st 8-10, and will rebroadcast again on Christmas Eve from 8-10.
Listen to the full program:
Listen to songs performed by NHPR staffers and friends:
You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - performed by NHPR's Taylor Quimby:
Go Tell It On The Mountain - performed by NHPR's Jason Moon and Sarah Gibson:
Christmas Is A Coming - performed by NHPR's Sarah Gibson and Nick Capodice, along with their friends Danny Mulligan and Margaret Mitchell:
All Is Calm - written and performed by former NHPR host and reporter Brady Carlson:
Shanty Town - performed by Something Wild host Dave Anderson and his band, Peabody's Coal Train:
Silent Night - performed by Peabody's Coal Train:
And here's a classic - NHPR's Sean Hurley (as his alter ego Sherwin Sleeves) singing The Christmas La La Song, which he wrote for the Ron and Fez show. (Listen to the story about it here.)
Lorna from Bow, NH requested Riu Riu Chiu, from The Monkees' Christmas Show (Christmas Day in 1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_hlYgCNFZc
