WKSU Ornaments and Icing 2000

This is the second year of our effort to have fun creating something fresh to listen to during the holidays. We offered singers and musicians the NPR network if they would record their own interpretation of a classic carol they've always loved, or put forward a new seasonal song. In either case, it was to be an unreleased recording. In that way everyone shows up with a new present that everyone else can enjoy! Twenty-three "Ornaments," or songs, and three stories are performances you've never heard before; they premier here. Add to the stories some nugget-size anecdotes by the artists, and a visit with Pete Seeger, and you've got your "Icing." Enjoy! The artists did have fun. From Leon Redbone jazzing up his "Christmas Island" live in concert, to Alison Brown and her group inventing a medley and calling it Carol AND the Kings because, "...that's funnier," to Eric Bibb making a trip up to Vancouver and recording a special song with his dad Leon, everyone caught the spirit and created some wonderful moments for us to listen to. Thanks to all of them. Our take-a-turn telling of "The Night Before Christmas" is becoming a tradition as well, this year involving twenty-nine readers! It happens near the end of the second hour, and helps get across the "gang" spirit of the show. Whether you catch it on an NPR station, or here off the web, I hope you enjoy "Ornaments and Icing," and have a wonderful holiday season. --Joe Gunderman, Producer Listen to the show on-air on 89.7 WKSU on the following date: Sunday, December 24 at 10pm The details of the songs featured in both hours follow...		Ornaments & Icing 99 -- see where the tradition began! Jim Blum, host Joe Gunderman, producer



Click on each link below to learn more about the performer(s) and the contributed song or poem.



Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer -- American Noel Alison Brown -- Carol And The Kings Leon Redbone -- Christmas Island Rhonda Vincent & The Rage -- Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem Bill Staines -- A Christmas Lullaby David Holt -- The Ruby John Floridis -- What Child Is This/Coventry Carol Grace Griffith -- Miss Kitty's Christmas Peter Mayer -- People Look East Pete Seeger -- intervew, T'was On A Night Like This Al Petteway & Amy White -- Coventry Carol -- Pat-a-Pan John McCutcheon -- The Greatest Story Never Told Jim Blum -- Reflection On The Longest Night The Bobs -- Christmas Morn Listen to Hour One in RealAudio



Tom Chapin & Michael Mark -- Memories Of Christmas Under The Tree -- Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem John Gorka -- Christmas Bells The Limeliters -- Children Go Where I Send Thee Robin Bullock -- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Eric & Leon Bibb -- There's A River The Asylum Street Spankers -- Far Away Christmas Blues Brooks Williams -- Good King Wenceslas Tom Paxton -- It Was A Night Like This Joe Gunderman -- The Old Man's Last Christmas Alex Bevan -- We Could Be Elves Bob Bellamy & Wendy Barlow -- The Moon Shines Bright/T'was In The Moon Of Wintertime The Cast -- The Night Before Christmas Livingston Taylor -- The Christmas Song Listen to Hour Two in RealAudio