Episode 076: Happy Holidays
(Featuring a variety of songs about vacationing, recorded while on vacation.)

As I relax at my island retreat, I thought it would be unfair to bask in the overwhelming opulence the entire time, and thus decided to produce a quick little Vacation-themed podcast to meditate on a single theme: the two-week Summer Vacation.  What goes on?  What does one do?  How does one pass the time?  All these questions, and more, are answered in this three-part episode.

As this show was assembled on-the-road, it may not sound like your average show.  Couple that, with the three-part nature of the show, definitely puts this into the “its an experiment” category of show.  If the technical specs didn’t give it away, the repetition of, “Holiday For Strings,” by two-different artists should have been a dead giveaway.  But the song is sooooooooo good!  Oh well, perhaps we’ll fare better next time.

I would like to thank my family (Karly, Kyle, Marti and Evelyn as my Sister, Brother, Mother and Grandmother, respectively) for hosting me during this vacation.  Thanks again!  You guys are amazing.

There should be one more of these before the next live show in August.  Stay tuned!

See ya in seven.

Happy Holidays
# Track * Artist * Album * Label
01.) Paradise Found * Martin Denny * Quiet Villiage * Liberty Records
02.) Two Week Vacation * The Embarrassment * Heyday 1979 – 1983 * Bar / None Records
03.) Ha Ha Holiday * The White Wires * Girly Girly Girly * Going Gaga Records
04.) Holiday Song * The Pixies * Come On Pilgrim * 4 AD Records
05.) Holiday * Crackerbash * Holiday EP * Imp Records
06.) Holiday Harbor * The Phantom Surfers * Great Surf Crash of ’97 * Lookout! Records
07.) Payed Vacation: Greece * Camper Van Beethoven * Telephone Free Landslide Victory * IRS Records
08.) Doomsdayer’s Holiday * Grails * Doomsdayer’s Holiday * Temporary Residence Records
09.) Holiday For Strings [Live] * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Duck, Duck, Chimp (Rarities 1987 – 2001) * Self-Released
10.) Holiday In The Sun * Los Punkrockers * Los Exitos de Sex Pistols por Los Punk Rockers * Dial Discos Records
11.) Paid Vacation * Circle Jerks * Group Sex * Porterhouse Records
12.) Holiday For Strings * Spike Jones And His City Slickers * Musical Depreciation * ASV Living Era Records
13.) Holiday In Waikiki * The Kinks * Muswell Hillbillies * RCA Records
14.) “Remember Ruby Sue” * Cast * National Lampoon’s European Vacation * Warner Bros. Records
15.) Holiday In Cambodia * Dead Kennedys * Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables * Alternative Tentacles Records
16.) Holiday For Strings * Sun Ra and His Arkestra * Holiday For Soul Dance * Evidence Records
17.) Holiday For Shakespeare * Sun City Girls * Dante’s Disneyland Inferno * Abduction Records
18.) On A Holiday * Brian Wilson * Smile * NoneSuch Records
19.) Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday * William Bell * The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959 – 1968 * Stax Records
20.) Holiday * Weezer * Weezer * DGC Records
21.) Sweet Charity [Excerpt] * Mr. Bungle * California * Warner Bros. Records
22.) Vacation’s Over * Lou Josie * The Chess Story: 1947 – 1975 * Chess Records

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