Carpenters Legacy and Christmas Novelty Songs with April Brucker

Twelve Songs goes to Las Vegas this week, first to talk with
Sally Olson and Ned Mills of the tribute act Carpenters Legacy
about The Carpenters and their Christmas music. This year, they
took their affection for both subjects to the natural conclusion
and recorded "Christmas Time with You," a Christmas song made in
the mold of the Carpenters. 


After that, I talk to comedian and ventriloquist April Brucker,
who released a song sung by her and her puppet May Wilson, "Merry
Christmas I'm So Glad I Didn't Marry You." We talk about
ventriloquism, novelty songs, and the age-old tradition of using
Christmas music to draw attention to your thing, whatever that
thing is.


In the episode, I mentioned ChristmasUnderground.com and my
interview with its creator, Jim Goodwin. I also talked about the
Holly Jolly X'masu podcast focused on Japanese Christmas music,
and mentioned my interview with its host, Scott Leopold. Also in
the hype department, I talked about appearing on Gerry Davila's
Totally Rad Christmas podcast to talk about "Do They Know it's
Christmas " by Band Aid Mk I and Band Aid Mk II. 


The episode closes with a great version of "Christmas Time is
Here" by Kelli Jones and Daniel Coolik from the EP A Very
Melancholy Christmas.