Episode 34: The Week Ending December 25, 1971 There’s No Place Like the ‘70s for the Holidays

Merry Christmas baby! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially since I saw mommy kissing the little Saint Nick as they were rocking around the Christmas tree, or where they doing the Merry Christmas Polka?  I forget which song they were dancing to, was it Silver Bells, or Jingle Bell Rock? I know I am really hoping for a white Christmas, so we can all go for a sleigh ride. There really is no place like home for the holidays, that’s why I’ll be home for Christmas. If something prevents that, it will be a blue Christmas for sure and all the pretty paper in the world won’t cover that up. One thing I am sure of; all I want for Christmas is an episode featuring the Watermark Productions compilation of the top 40 Christmas songs of all time from 1971 via Santa and the satellite radio.
Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/at40_xmas1.htm
Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.
Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)
Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll
“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s)" by Pete Battistini.
Some links to things we discussed in this episode:
The Little Drummer Boy | 1968 | HD | 1080p | Full Movie | Christmas Movies for Kids : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIW7HR2LOo
Norelco Santa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888mx7hMZ0
Deep Purple Podcast Episode #192 (Pet and I guested) - The Deep Purple Christmas Special (2022)(YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY8aQOgB5N8
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-192-the-deep-purple-christmas-special-2022/id1461491935?i=1000590585701
Stitcher : https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/209955406&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/209955406&deep_link_value=stitcher://episode/209955406
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RCXrLQGNoxNoumXGdPktK
Deep Purple Podcast Website: https://deeppurplepodcast.com/