[Blindtlk] Christmas Songs

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

    These songs in themselves are entertaining and funny but a steady diet 
of them several times a day gets old. Someone needs to tell our local radio 
stations who are wearing them out to turn on the "Light of the Stable", tell 
the reason why "Santa Never Made it in to Darwin", and to tell their 
audiences to learn about "Christmas in the Trenches", or simple to have a 
"Christmas Dream." With all of the Christmas music that has been written 
from antiquity to now it's sad that more of it isn't played rather than the 
same old-same old.

    Sorry to join the off-topic crowd. Looks like I'll get "Nutten for 
Christmas." All the best.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] [OT]All-News Radio Stations


> At least I haven't heard the dogs barking out "Jingle Bells" yet.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 1:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] [OT]All-News Radio Stations
>
> And "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas!" It was funny when I
> first heard it, now it's just annoying!
>
> Chris
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com
> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:43:58 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] [OT]All-News Radio Stations
>
> Hello David and everyone,
>
> You can't beat classical public radio for holiday music.  It's
> wonderful to
> hear Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and many more
> from
> Christmases gone by especially when traditional holiday music
> gets old and
> worn out.  All the best.
>
> Peter Donahue who is tired of Grandma getting Run Over by a
> Reindeer and
> Spike Jone's song about "The Devil in the Christmas Play." if you
> listen to
> the words you'll understand why I changed one word from an angel
> to a devil.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com
> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 6:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] [OT]All-News Radio Stations
>
>
> Personally I think public radio has it all over commercial radio
> for
> news -- and I used to work as a news writer, for an all-news
> station,
> at the start of my career, KQV in Pittsburgh, PA.  Don't know if
> they
> are still doing news, doubt it, pretty expensive for a low-watt
> AM.  Our public station carries the BBC World Service overnight,
> which I very much enjoy.
>
> Dave
>
> At 10:58 PM 12/10/2011, you wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
>
>
> To the extent that the blind satisfy the stereotype of radio
> junkies, the
> following question is blindness-related - barely.
>
>
>
> I, at least, *am* a news junkie.  I have all the "All-news" radio
> stations
> of
> which I know programmed into ooTunes on my iPhone.  These are the
> various
> CBS
> radio all-news stations, WTOP in Washington, D.C.  and KOMO in
> Seattle.
>
>
>
> My question: does anyone know of other strictly all-news stations
> in the
> United States? "News-talk" stations don't count in my book as
> also the
> various NPR stations don't count - great as they are.  The CBS
> stations are:
>
>
>
> WBBM, WBZ, WCBS, KYW, KNX, KCBS and WINS.  KFWB used to be
> all-news but has
> gone news-talk since CBS owns it as well as KNX (KFWB used to be
> a
> Westinghouse station when that corporation owned radio stations).
>
>
>
> Any help or other strictly all-news stations are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Oh yes - I know of CKWX and CFTR; dunno whether there are other
> Rogers
> stations in Canada that are all-news.
>
>
>
> Now I'll go away and return you to your regularly-scheduled
> blindness
> discussions.
>
>
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
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