Quad City DJs

This episode is bittersweet for me. The things I love on Quad
City DJs' All-Star Christmas make me very happy, and
this week one half of the Quad City DJs, CC Lemonhead, tells the
story of the Jacksonville, Florida DJs' journey from "Whoot!
There it Is" to "Tootsie Roll" to "C'mon and Ride It (The Train)"
to "What You Want for Christmas." It's the kind of story I love,
with people working up homemade solutions to musical challenges,
and what happens along the way. 


Unfortunately, one of the things that happened is that CC and his
partner Jay-Ski fell out during the recording of Quad City DJs'
debut album for Atlantic Records, Get on Up and Dance, and
he was out of the picture entirely for the recording
of All-Star Christmas in 1996. Equally unfortunately, I
didn't know that until a half-hour into our interview. So far,
Jay-Ski has not responded to interview requests, but I'm going to
keep trying.


Fortunately, last episode's guest, Bill Adler, tracked down one
of the singers on the album, an artist who goes by the name of
Big Tyme and recorded "Xmas Blues," otherwise known as Bonquisha
and Otis, which bounce rapper Big Freedia turned me on to on a
previous episode. Adler wrote the story for LL Cool J's Rock The
Bells website, so I this episode I read an excerpt of it to help
answer one more question about the album.


In this episode, singer Alexandra Scott returns to talk with me
about new Christmas music from Meghan Trainor, Ingrid Michaelson,
and Amanda Shires. You can hear Alexandra's music on her Bandcamp
page.


This episode is sponsored by Car-Floats.com, purveyors of
removable, reusable fabric stickers for your car. 


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