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Picture This Playlist 30: Christmas Goes to the Movies

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Christmas Goes to the Movies will be rebroadcast on Sunday night, Christmas Eve, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org, from 7-8 PM. Please don’t miss this.

This show was broadcast on Sunday, December 17 from 7 to 8 PM, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. It will be re-broadcast on Christmas Eve, December 24th, same time same place)

By Wayne Cresser

Christmas Time is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas composed by Vince Guaraldi, performed here by NRBQ

Opening or “Dah Who Doraze” from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, composed by Albert Hague, Eugene Podanny, and Theodor Suess Geisel, performed by the MGM Orchestra and Chorus

Happy Holiday from Holiday Inn, composed by Irving Berlin, performed by Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds, the Music Maids and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

The Polar Express, from The Polar Express, composed by Alan Silvestri and Glenn Ballard, performed by Tom Hanks

What’s This? from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, composed and performed by Danny Elfman

Christmas Is Coming, from A Charlie Brown Christmas, composed and performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

It Feels Like Christmas from the Muppets Christmas Carol, composed by Paul Williams, performed by David Rudman

“Jingle Bells” (with the “Batman Smells” verse) from the Simpsons, featuring the voices of Phil Hartman, Nancy Cartwright, and Harry Shearer

Reindeers are Better than People from Frozen, composed by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, performed by Jonathan Groff

Winter Was Warm, from Mister MaGoo’s Christmas Carol, music Jules Styne, lyrics Bob Merrill singing Victoria Clark

Skating from A Charlie Brown Christmas, composed by Vince Guaraldi and performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

Snow from White Christmas, composed by Irving Berlin, performed by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Peggy Lee

In the Season of Hope from The Man Who Invented Christmas, composed by Michael Danna

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, from Meet Me in St Louis, composed by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine, performed by Judy Garland

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Eve from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, composed by Johnny Marks, performed by the Decca Concert Orchestra led by Herbert Raybine

 

Christmas Time is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas , composed by Vince Guaraldi, performed by Guaraldi and the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Choristers

Have a Holy Jolly Christmas from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, composed by Johnny Marks and performed by Burl Ives and Owen Bradley

White Christmas from Holiday Inn, composed by Irving Berlin, performed by Bing Crosby

Welcome Christmas Reprieve from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! featuring the voice of Boris Karloff

Thank You Very Much from Scrooge, composed by Leslie Bricusse, performed by Anthony Newley and Company

White Christmas from White Christmas, composed by Irving Berlin, performed by the Drifters

God rest ye Merry (traditional)

Source: Picture This Playlist 30: Christmas Goes to the Movies

Listen to Nilsson’s “The Point” on new episode of “Picture This”

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(Originally broadcast on Sunday, November 19, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, and streaming on wriu.org, from 7-8 PM) You can listen to the show here: All songs written and performed by Harry Nilsson fo…

By Wayne Cresser

Originally broadcast on Sunday, November 19, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, and streaming on wriu.org, from 7-8 PM.

You can listen to the show here:

All songs written and performed by Harry Nilsson for the ABC TV broadcast of February 2, 1971.

Everybody’s Got “Em

The Town (narration)

Me and My Arrow

The Game (narration)

Poli High

The Trial and Banishment (narration)

Think About Your Troubles

The Pointed Man (narration)

Life Line

Life Line-Jimmy Webb and Ira Siegel

The Birds (narration)

P.O.V. Waltz

The Clearing in the Woods (narration)

Are You Sleeping?

Oblio’s return (narration)

The Cast and Crew from Skidoo, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

I’m Mean (demo) from Popeye, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

He Needs Me (demo) from Popeye, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

Source: Playlist 26: Harry Nilsson’s The Point

Listen to “Jazz at the Movies” – music from “Pete Kelly’s Blues” and more

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Our friend and fellow-Hobbledehoy Wayne Cresser contributes the latest installment from his terrific weekly radio program, Picture This.

This week, Wayne further explores Jazz at the Movies, leading with a few choice cuts from crime movies, notably 1955’s “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” (The Hobbledehoy goes cuckoo for anything sung by Peggy Lee!)
There’s also music composed by Michel LeGrand, the great Duke Ellington and Herbie Hancock, and more. Dig it.

THE PLAYLIST:

  • “Hero to Zero” and Main Title from Anatomy of a Murder composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 
  • Title Theme from Paris Blues, composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 
  • “Strollin’ Blues” from Touch of Evil, composed by Henry Mancini
  • “Pete Kelly’s Blues” from Pete Kelly’s Blues, written by Pete Heindorf and Sammy Khan and performed by Ella Fitzgerald 
  • “Alfie’s Theme Differently” from Alfie, composed and performed by Sonny Rollins 
  • “Alfie” from Alfie, composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David performed by Cher 
  • Medley: Blues/La Dolce Vita Nobili from La Dolce Vita composed by Nino Rota 
  • “Sugar” (That Sugar Baby of Mine) from Pete Kelly’s Blues, composed by Edna Alexander Maceo Pinkard and Sidney Mitchell, performed by Peggy Lee
  • Main Title from New York New York composed by John Kander, performed by Ralph Burns 
  • “Flip the Dip” from New York, New York, composed by George Auld, performed by Ralph Burns 
  • “Movin’” from Hear My Song, composed by John Altman and Adrian Dunbar, performed by John Altman
  • “Song of the Twins” from The Young Girls of Rochefort, composed by Michel LeGrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy, and performed by Anne Germain and Claude Parent
  • “When I Fall in Love” from Good Luck and Good Night, composed by Victor Young, performed by Dianne Reeves
  • The Theme from Route 66, composed and arranged by Nelson Riddle 
  • “Bring Down the Birds” from Blow-Up, composed and performed by Herbie Hancock 
  • “Chan’s Song (Never Said)” from ‘Round Midnight, co-written by Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
  • “Farewell My Lovely” from Farewell My Lovely, composed by David Shire
“Strollin’ Blues,” indeed! Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil .

For the complete playlist from this and other episodes, proceed to Wayne’s blog Mischief Time

“Picture This” airs Monday evenings on WRIU: 90.3 FM the radio station for the University of Rhode Island. You can hear live streaming at wriu.org.

Listen to “Spinning Plates” – soundtrack music from Wes Anderson and more

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Our friend and fellow-HOBBLEDEHOY Wayne Cresser contributes the latest installment from his terrific weekly radio program, Picture This

On this episode titled Spinning Plates II you’ll hear choice cuts from movie soundtracks from two of our favorite filmmakers, Wes Anderson and his equally brilliant non-relative Paul Thomas Anderson. There’s also music from classic TV cartoons and animated films from the big screen.

‘But wait, there’s more!’

About halfway through the show, you’ll hear Leonard Nimoy perform his Spock-inspired song “Highly Illogical.”

For the complete playlist from this and other episodes, proceed to Wayne’s blog Mischief Time

“Picture This” airs Monday evenings on WRIU: 90.3 FM the radio station for the University of Rhode Island. You can hear live streaming at wriu.org.