Interview: Bill Gardner and Derek Rath discuss old-time Christmas music

From: NPR Special | Date: December 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

TONY COX
NPR Special
12-22-2004
Interview: Bill Gardner and Derek Rath discuss old-time Christmas music

Host: TONY COX
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

TONY COX, host:

From the studios of NPR West, I'm Tony Cox.

(Soundbite of "Christmas in Hollis")

COX: That's Run-DMC's "Christmas in Hollis." It's hip-hop and a catchy example of what Christmas music has become in more recent years. But some of the older old-school Christmas songs still have legs. I'm talking about songs by Charles Brown, John Lee Hooker and Bobby Womack, for example, the types of tunes that can still get kids young and old to popping ...

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