The first day of Hot Roxmas

With all the fun I had with November's National Blog Posting Month, here's the deal for December. I'm going to try to post a Christmas song (or link to same) every day on average for this entire month. In order to keep it to a manageable size, I'm going to post the songs alphabetically by artist, one for each letter. I'm hoping for an Advent calendar in alphabetical order.

I've been collecting Christmas music for ages, so I've got buckets of it. I've also been doing holiday mixes for the last few years, so I'm trying not to post songs here from my recent mixes. However, for the first few years series, I did three or four mixes on tape (as was the custom at the time) . Nobody listens to cassettes anymore, so I feel confident digging into mixes from the tape years for lost songs. Like this one.

Anton Barbeau's "Xmas Song" was the leadoff song from my 1997 collection "Guess It Just Wouldn't Be Christmas", which was named after a Loud Family song that wasn't included in the collection. At that time, Anton had only released this song on his 1995 "Sula's Revenge" tape, so it wasn't well known outside his coeterie of fantonatics. It was reissued in 2001 on the Antology 2: The Golden Boot CD on 125 Records (now available for just $3 from them. what a deal!) and as a free download from Anton's website, so the song isn't that rare anymore, but still not as well known as it should be, and I can't think of a better way to kick off a month of Christmas songs.

If anyone has requests for other songs, for this or my 2007 holiday mix (which I'm still working on) leave them in the comments, or email me at sholteblah-at-gmail-dot-com.


Anton Barbeau - Xmas Song (from antonbarbeau.com)

(For those who are curious, I'm sorting in iTunes default order where individuals sort by first name, so Anton comes under A. You got a problem with that?)