Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming22 Des 2025

Snap, Crackle, POP on Ice! (A Christmas Special)

It's a Christmas week episode - what a concept! I owe my friend Al Quagliari a huge thank for providing me with lots of wondrous and oft silly Christmas and New Year's songs and soundbites, and for turning me on to Bob Rivers, the Weird Al of Christmas music. It may have been a bit self-indulgent to play my own Christmas song at the end, but I'm working on a larger Bite the Wax Godhead project at the moment, so I'm hoping to give my and Cynthia's old band just a bit of additional visibilty in the next few months before we return to obscurity. And the song isn't half-bad. This was a fun show to prepare and pull off. Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas Baby – Otis Redding

O Little Town of Bethlehem – Bob Rivers

Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy – John Kirby and His Orchestra

Joy To the World – The Butties

I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You – Margo Guryan

Tchotchkes– Tchotchke & The Lemon Twigs

Decorations – Bob Rivers

(Yes It's) Christmas – War

Christmas In Suburbia – The Cleaners from Venus

Bellringers Are Hungover – Lorraine Bowen

The Christmas Song – Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva

Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller

Christmas At the Airport – Nick Lowe

How Do You Spell Channukkahh? – The Leevees

I Saw Hanukkah Harry Beat Up Santa Claus – Hal Singer

Sled Zeppelin – Bob Rivers

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town – John Davidson

What Christmas Means to Me – Stevie Wonder

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Carol of the Bells – Robert Glasper & Cynthia Erivo

Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal Version – studio chatter + Takes 6 & 7) – Vince Guaraldi & St. Paul's Episcopal Church Youth Choir

Santa Don't Go – Farrah

You Trashed My Christmas – The Primitives

Xmasploitation (Santa's Badass Revenge) – monochronic

All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) – Nat King Cole (MJ Cole Remix)

Father Christmas – The Kinks

Silver and Gold – Rosine (featuring Nancy Howell and Mark Lerner)

(I'll Be Glad When) Christmastime is Done – Bite the Wax Godhead

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