So with Christmas time again and the songs of Christmas in the Heart even on the dutch television it may be time to go back to 34th episode of  Theme Time Radio Hour. This was a 2 hour show with Dylan's choice of Christmas and New Year songs.

If you didn't get it previous then you must get it now and listen to it after or before listening to Christmas in the heart and see how things mingle.

Listen to Must be Santa from the Brave Combo

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Playlist:

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Swinging For Christmas (Boppin' For Santa) - Tom Archia - (1948)
Christmas Is A-Comin' - Leadbelly - (194?)
A Party For Santa Claus - Lord Nelson - (1963)
Sock It To Me Santa - Bob Seger & The Last Heard - (1966)
Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas ? - The Staple Singers - (1970)
Please Come Home For Christmas - Charles Brown - (1960)
Jingle Bells - Johnny Paycheck - (1967)
It Must Be Christmas - Gerry Mulligan & Judy Holiday - (1961)
Christmas Morning - Titus Turner - (1952)
Poor Old Rudolph - The Bellrays - (2001)
Blue Xmas - Bob Dorough & Miles Davis - (1962)
Far Away Christmas Blues - Little Esther & Johnny Otis Orchestra - (1950 )
Beatniks Wish - Patsy Raye & The Beatniks - (1959)
Don't Believe In Christmas - The Sonics - (1965)
Christmas Tree - King Stitt - (1969)
Silent Night - Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns - (1962)
Must Be Santa - Brave Combo - (1991)
Mambo Santa Mambo - The Enchanters - (1957)
Fiesta De Navidad - Celia Cruz & La Senora Matancera - (1961)
Merry Christmas Darling - Hop Wilson & His Buddies - (1960)
Merry Merry Christmas - Alton Davis & The Lipsticks - (1972)
The Merriest - June Christy - (1961)
Truckin' Trees For Christmas - Red Simpson - (1961)
Christmas In Jail - The Youngsters - (1956)
I Want A Casting Couch For Christmas - Kay Martin & Her Body Guards - (1962)
Santa Claus - Sonny Boy Williamson II - (1960)
Hello Mr. New Year - Cool Breezers - (?)
Happy Christmas, Happy New Year - Mabel Mafuya - (1958)
Christmas To New Year's - The Larks - (1951)
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - Nancy Wilson - (1965)

The show featured a reading by Dylan of the 1822 poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

by Clement Clarke Moore;

as well as a reading of the 1862 poem ... "Christmas Bells"

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,

The belfries of all Christendom

Had rolled along

The unbroken song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till, ringing, singing on its way

The world revolved from night to day,

A voice, a chime,

A chant sublime

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each bleak, accursed mouth

The cannon thundered in the South,

And with the sound

The Carols drowned

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;

'There is no peace on earth,' I said;

'For hate is strong,

And mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!'

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

'God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!

The Wrong shall fail,

The Right prevail,

With peace on earth, good-will to men!'