Christmas Song Listening Party

it's four o'clock on a monday and you know what that means it's time for another exciting episode of taxi tv live whoa my headphone my earbud got caught on my keyboard my packet almost pulled it out of my ear how are you guys good to see you i see the chat room is filling up rather quickly today um and if i can ask everybody do it now so we don't have a bunch of uh people saying hey give us a like give us a like you know uh you've had all year to do it if you haven't done it yet give us a like doesn't cost anything hello marion hello kristen knight pierre vinio russ costa andre stepanian heidi owen john pearson jesse j peck edmund redd who i had the pleasure of speaking with over the weekend hello edmund martin gravel rosso emile dan weber reid geisland geestland um philpis williams michelle rubin music jan wyland martin frog everybody's here anyway um today just kind of hang out probably a little bit more like a quarantine happy hour than a formal episode of taxi tv uh we are going to listen to some christmas music i saw people in the chat room before the show went live going gee i wonder how many submissions they got honestly because i limited it to just guitar vocal or piano vocal i thought we wouldn't get that many maybe a couple handfuls maybe a dozen couple dozen few dozen we got 300 submissions shocking to me i guess everybody's got a christmas song but here's the thing is it said guitar vocal piano vocal if you want to add a shaker or a click track to keep time that's okay you would be shocked how many of these uh submissions today thank you liz uh how many submissions had stuff beyond guitar vocal or piano vocal i don't know what part of that people didn't understand but shame on you if you sense it because i won't play it i wanted everybody to be on an equal footing not that we're judging today but i just thought you know some people might only have a piano vocal or guitar vocal and it wouldn't be cool if other people had this big beautiful you know thing with orchestral and choir blah blah blah so put everybody in the same footing and instead we got i don't know uh i've had to have uh liz redo the list three times in the last half hour or so um eliminating stuff where people had piano vocal for like the first minute and a half of the song and then towards the end it becomes like uh you know a full choir harps strings everything comes in yep 300 that is a lot i mean frankly uh kristen knight says michael you look fantastic remind me to tell you more about that in a moment uh but thank you kristen um you know i don't think we've ever had that many uh for anything so uh yeah it was uh michelle lockheed says oops my bad didn't read the fine print it wasn't in fine print it was in the regular size hello greg carosa yours was acapella wow there's a man that really follow instructions to the letter of the law i love that um anyway okay so why do i look so good today truth be told i wore my orange miami hurricane sweatshirt my hoodie today orange doesn't work well when you're using a green screen which i am um so after about 10 minutes of trying to get my skin tone in the lighting it creates all kinds of stuff it looks like an electric snowstorm uh so i said well i'll put on my session wire t-shirt which i keep hanging on the back of my office door um number one because i like where it's i like the guys at session wire a lot i love their uh awesome software for connecting people to do virtual sessions excuse me and um i keep it there for emergencies like this where sometimes it's just easier rather than trying to dial in the color and the green screen and anything when it's everything when it's a hopeless cause i just put this shirt on and i still had problems dialing it in so i just finished about two minutes ago rebalancing all my lighting i've got one two three lights going today um tweaking the positioning of my camera and uh then going in and adjusting things here i'll tell you what i had to adjust today let's see i had to adjust brightness contrast gamma hue and saturation and then on the green screen side i had to do key threshold adjustment black clip adjustment white clip adjustment spill suppression adjustment solidify adjustment edge coloring adjustment all that to make me look reasonably good for um so that kristen knight could pay me a compliment thank you kristen it's nice that all that work didn't go unnoticed i appreciate that a bunch so yeah we are going to listen to some christmas music um i i had shot for 20 tunes but because we had to peel some off the last minute and it just wasn't timely for liz to go back into a pile of 300 to start listening so many people did include links to download them only links to stream them it's amazing how people just don't follow instructions it's the holiday season doesn't that mean following instructions i mean what if you left the damper or the fluke closed on your chimney and santa couldn't get down whose fault would it be that your kids didn't get any presences here just saying anyway so yeah it was a little problematic but we do have 18 on the list um ew i might be on the wrong list let me count these up one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. oh we've got 17. i think i am on the wrong list did you send me another list i think you might have liz did you send it to my secret gmail address because that's what i'm using on the external computer uh okay yes you did all right so let me once again download like the fourth or fifth list today all right so without any further ado um let's start listening to these things get all my paperwork sorted out get my levels correct and the first one we're gonna hear is from reed geesland and this is called home for christmas day let's have a listen [Music] [Music] so that gifts can't find their way [Music] it's so exciting it's like magic isn't playing but it doesn't feel like christmas [Music] oh [Music] is he goes [Music] day [Music] christmas day is [Music] but it doesn't feel like christmas [Music] christmas day [Applause] all right i'm assuming that that wasn't reed singing just say it i hope that was your daughter if not reed i think you need to go see a doctor immediately after the show today that was very very very sweet curious to see how old she is is reid in the uh chat room reed whose last name i apparently butchered it's gaslin versus oh there's reid uh how old is your daughter it was your dog we knew that reed didn't take a genius to figure that out 14 years old very very sweet um by the way over the weekend i watched the the beatles thing on disney plus get back if you're a hardcore beatle fan you'll be on the edge of your chair just loving every minute parts 2 and parts 3 are especially good if you're not a beatles fan uh part one will maybe bore you a little bit because it's just them hanging out talking about stuff in the studio and some music here and there parts two and three they really get into it more amazing footage i can't believe that that much footage has been stashed away for 60 years i think um also 60 years no uh since 1969 so do the math because i can't 50 years um and the audio quality giles martin who is george martin uh george martin's son was in charge of the audio restoration sounded incredible and the interesting thing is that ringo on everything in that film had like a dish towel thrown over a snare drum covering the entire thing sometimes the floor tom as well and even when they had only like one talkback mike in the room uh because they were just capturing the beatles talking about this upcoming show they plan to do even ringo's kit being heard from you know 15 feet away by an overhead mic a room mic still sounded like ringo's kit pretty amazing um okay anyway yeah you do need to check it out really really good so the next one up is called nothing but love this is by sandy pollock uh and here we go it's christmas time again what happened to the year i don't need anything and i've got nothing but love for you my dear [Music] christmas tree but i'm more broke than last year [Music] if is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i'll give you [Music] you [Music] people say that christmas is [Music] to me but i've got nothing to love for you [Music] [Applause] for you [Music] but i've got nothing [Music] for you [Applause] maurice says natalie merchant would kill this song why what is the poor song done that it deserves to be killed come on maurice lighten up i know i know i'm kidding um reggae version this would be nice uh not isolated to just christmas time there you go really cool vocal treatment on that one i think everybody picked up on that that once again was nothing but love by sandy pollock um oh look at this next on the list is our very own mr john pearson with his song oops let me bring that fader down i had to goose it pretty high for the last two this is john pearson's song called the gift of christmas let's have a listen [Music] oh the tree is lit with our presence under it the green the red the gold of christmas and the stockings hung in place match a happy face that's waiting for the day of christmas and softly i hear the sound of church bells ringing out reminding me just what this season's all about the love the hope the gift of christmas [Music] and phone calls are made to friends we've known since who knows when and we reconnect again at christmas as all across the earth we celebrate the birth of god's own perfect gift at christmas softly i hear the sound of church bells ringing out reminding me just what this season's all about the love the hope the gift of christmas [Music] after the presents are exchanged [Music] the most important one remains [Music] the reason for this day a peace that never fades the love the hope the gift of christmas oh the love the hope of this gift of christmas [Music] the gift of christmas [Applause] very nice jp um is that you singing if it is uh i'm shocked because normally when i hear somebody that i know fairly well which i know john fairly well i could recognize the voice but i couldn't tell if that was you or not um anyway beautiful tune very tender and of the season damn i've got a real problem with this thing getting caught on the back of my keyboard i feel like a must be what a bass feels like when they get uh hooked [Music] okay uh i want to go back and talk about the beatles thing for a second um so how everybody who's seen the beatles documentary get back already uh give me a plus one i'm just curious to see how many of you guys have seen i'm no best no but you take the bee off and it might describe me let's see carosa karl wurzbach hancock yamagishi hurwitz nigel harris and neil mcnaughton gary scott cellness paul gerard has seen one-third of it like it okay graham eisenberg martingravel chrissy you didn't even know about it well sign up for disney plus you can always cancel later it's fairly cheap thrill or use somebody's account i didn't say that it's um seven hours of the beatles in uh on a rehearsal stage and then in the studio leading up to the famous rooftop concert um amazing stuff amazing uh let's see who else uh worst part one third of it glenn letts has seen it drew mcdonald lovely bones two-thirds kristen's got disney plus oh man it's all right guess what you're doing tonight kristen and just remember the first third of it unless you're a really hardcore beatles fan would be interesting but not that exciting the middle episode in the last episode have a little more oomph to them but if you're a hardcore beatle fan every minute of it is important it's just amazing you're actually in the room while they're writing songs um mind-blowing [Music] anyway uh all right that was john pearson now we're moving on to oh look at that marion laird got one on there this is called at christmas time from marion laird or as she says in the credits here marion faith laird which is appropriate for christmastime [Music] [Music] us think of where it all began of the mercy of god's plan when he sent you the son of man and christ our messiah born that night to redeem us from our plight and restore us to the light that christmas christmas carols in the air make us feel we want to share oh why can't we always care like chris hearts are hurting every day they don't always seek the way who lay on the bed of hay at christmas [Music] what a sight was to behold that christ our messiah born that night to redeem us from our plight and restore us to the light at christmastime we were lost when messiah came to earth angels at his birth [Music] our messiah born that night to redeem us from our plight and restore us to the light at christmas [Music] [Applause] that was at christmas time by marion faith laird nice job marion it is really um kind of cool you know because usually the crowds are too big on the show to do these on a zoom so that's why we do them live on youtube so i never get to see your faces or hear your voices and this is a great way to do that um to whoever it was said i can hear your elbows during the i'm sorry wow it does translate i've got oh you know what i don't here normally i have the mic sitting on a quarter inch thick piece of foam to isolate it i didn't have it so maybe this will help it's funny right before the show today i was looking at a shock mount for my audio technica 20 20. um great job marion yep there's that hand um it's so funny it's like i don't know what marion's voice sounds like i've known her for years in the context of the chat room john pearson i know what his voice sounds like as we've spoken on the phone several times i know what edmund red sounds like because admin little secret edmond's going to be our passenger profile for the december newsletter so over the weekend uh we did a little zoom together he did a great job and it went to the editor today and already came back to me and now it's in the hands uh i mean that was a video editor now it's back in the hands of the editorial staff for uh the newsletter um jimmy olsen is working really hard getting it together all right uh now we are moving on to the next one which is called christmas time all over the world by rochelle worden or warden m-w-o-r-d-e and rachelle i'm sorry if i butchered your name i'm going with warden uh let's see pretty healthy levels bring that down a little bit here we go [Music] christmas time all over the world box is unpacked and light stretched [Music] is christmas time a merry rhyme of jingle tombs and low voice crows what they're dreaming of this happy holiday while sending hearts and warming hearts all over the world [Music] check it twice it's christmas time christmas time christmas time all over the world it's christmas time christmas time christmas time all over the world [Applause] [Music] i'm running and rushing to get things done cooking and baking just for fun all this mary making for all the family to secretly plan the gifting christmas time christmas time christmas time all over the world seeing old carols joyly they're those with it's christmas time in our hearts it's where the place is all the smiling little faces find the traces of hope and joy and be for the christmas time all over the world [Music] christmas time over [Music] [Music] [Applause] sorry i cut the the ring out on that last note little soon that was lovely uh i kept thinking uh which disney ride is it that you go on i can't believe i can't think of this because i was just on it like two months ago um you know where you go through all the different countries of the world it's got people in their native dress you know this would be great for that um reed's making me feel bad now nailed the ending yes and michael cut off the last 10 seconds of ringa it's a small world thank you cass uh and cass is so tall that he doesn't actually fit in the boat to go in small world somehow you know that i do not know i went uh with my five-year-old granddaughter and uh it's so awesome you know i've got four daughters that now range between 21 and 40 years old so it's been quite a while since i've gotten to sit in the boat going through it's a small world with a little kid but it's really cool watching it through their eyes they're like wow taking it all in wow you were born in anaheim that's cool when my wife was little she lived pretty near anaheim and in the summer they would rather than taking the kids to camp or whatever um i think when my wife was like 12 years old that she and a bunch of girlfriends would get dropped off they bought like annual passes for the girls and they would drop this gang of 12 year old girls off at disneyland every day or at least very frequently my wi-fi says i get that rock but she says i get everything wrong so what the heck so uh this little gang of girls who go to disneyland every day so when i met my wife and she was then my girlfriend and later my fiancee and ultimately my wife and i had two daughters from my first marriage they would come to l.a for the summer we take them to disneyland my wife is always like ah i don't go back to disneyland i've been there like a thousand times once she gets her feet on the ground at disneyland she becomes like the biggest disneyland fan that you can imagine she's got the map out okay at 1205 we're going here at 12 32 we should be done but then we're going to stand in line for an hour at this other ride and she just controls the entire day so for somebody that says she doesn't enjoy disneyland she loves it and she's on another condo right now and she's sleeping while we're doing the show so she ain't gonna hear that um disneyland is my dream that's where we were babysat played hide and seek there wow [Laughter] that's so funny anyway yeah disneyland is cool um on wednesday this week i'm going to universal studios with my almost now six-year-old granddaughter i don't know she's actually ever seen it or not anyway i love doing that stuff i hate the lines but what the heck all right next one is mr snowy christmas this is by piervinio in the break of day wishing once in may i can't see the lights in the stars but it's not christmas anymore i see what they say all looks kind of great cannot see the lights in the snow or make a slashy ball to throw where's my snowy christmas that came around midnight it's now a shady business to make it right listen what i say maybe i should break as for peace and mercy for all lovely neighbor take the home i love this snowy christmas i love my snowy christmas [Applause] my snowy christmas by pierre vinio um i i thought i might have heard drums in the background but i think uh pierre correct me if i'm wrong that this was a full track and you just isolated the the vocal and the guitar which is a sweet sounding jazzy guitar and this way he had a little bit of drum bleed through but not gonna disqualify you for drum bleed no drums really all right well whatever it was uh it was in time all right uh i i can't believe every it's hard for those who of us who live in southern california to think that not everybody in the country or the world has been to disneyland universe all that stuff but uh when it's in your backyard you know gotta take advantage of what's there okay the next one is called falling in love with christmas falling in love at christmas this one's from anthony hutchcroft let's have a listen here we go [Music] falling in love at christmas when all is glistening and carelessing to me and you falling in love i hope you're listening so much easier with you don't you agree dear falling in love at christmas with snowflakes all about hoping our joy starts something new falling in love who can live without all i want for christmas is you do you want me love that christmas it's a magical thing i promise for all our hopes and dreams [Music] love that christmas it'll make your heart sing a gift for everyone with amazing possibilities [Music] falling in love at christmas beneath the mistletoe the joy in your life your eyes so blue falling in love with the sleigh bells in the snow such a jolly time to say i love you falling in love at christmas i love you falling in love at christmas i love you falling in love at christmas i love you [Music] i'm falling in love at christmas with you [Music] [Applause] love it that was great um i have a confession to make about universal studios my son-in-law who does not live in l.a married to one of my four daughters um is a pretty senior guy at universal studios started out there putting crash test dummies right out of college putting crash test dummies and rides and measuring you know all of the g-force and the torque blah blah um and he's been there now for probably close to 20 years has become pretty senior senior in the department and was the guy who was responsible for the what's the harry potter train called um i can't think the name of it anyway he was the guy that ran that project to get the harry potter train built and he usually can't divulge anything about his work other than to say in that case they wanted it to be exact and perfect which i believe everything they did related to harry potter had to be exact and perfect um and they had the the set designer art director whomever that worked on the movies come and like check every hogwarts express thank you um check everything out just not on the train but on all the harry potter stuff um to give approval anyway um i have been fortunate uh many years ago to go to universal with our son-in-law where you get the front of the line pass where you don't have to stand in line they take you to an air-conditioned room give you a bottle of water how you feeling you're ready to go okay and you walk right on the ride that's like a once-in-a-lifetime event um so that was cool tomorrow or wednesday we'll be paying for those tickets and standing in line um casey's taking off get back in the room horowitz all right uh next one i love the title i noticed this one before the show this one might be my favorite title it's called drunk santa which i mean let's face it if you're going to get in a sleigh and be out in the open air at an altitude of like 10 000 feet doing 100 knots you're gonna be freezing your tushy off right so a little nip while you're out there why not this is drunk santa by elmer nable whoops [Music] ain't nothing like a drunk santa calling everybody ho fallen from a roof in indiana face down in the snow snow snow caught it all on camera just ask grandma ain't nothing like a drunk santa ho ho ho he never puts names on the children's toys it really mixes up all the girls and boys jackson got a barbie doll oh emma got her mama's bra it happens every freaking year a bit too much christmas cheers [Music] just as grandma ain't nothing like a drunk santa ho ho he's standing beneath the mistletoe he don't take it well when his cousins say no old and liz don't stand a chance next on the list first tinsel flap dance telling kids dirty jokes stuff and stockings full of home rolled smokes [Music] ain't nothing like a drunk santa calling everybody ho ho ho falling from a roofing indiana face down in the snow snow snow caught it all on camera just ask grandma ain't nothing like a drunk santa after dinner he's leading christmas carols lighting up tree in a burn barrel ain't nothing like a drunk santa calling everybody [Music] [Applause] how could you not love that that was really funny oh boy everybody's loving that one stone santa funny i love this the song has to take first place i know it was a contest but uh really really funny remember the movie um bad santa this should have been on the end credits for that um everybody loved it show stopper amazing song plus plus plus one love it my favorite so far everybody loved it so good job on that elmer um yeah there's a bunch of stuff i want to say but it's a family-friendly show so i won't bring down the level a little bit let's see what's up next all right this one is called hold on to christmas it's by laurie schmidt looking back on how it was we used to laugh and cry you were always in a rush sometimes i'd wonder why we held on to christmas we put the lights on the trees hold on to christmas please hold on to me [Music] we had our doubts and things got grim seems we could never win but somehow we still found a way from something deep within and we held on to christmas [Music] we put the lights on the trees hold on to christmas [Music] please hold on to me we almost had each other from the start until the end should we stay together [Music] i just can't stand believing that this may be the end could we have forever again [Music] [Music] hold on to christmas it's all we've got can't you see hold on to christmas [Music] please hold on to me [Music] yeah oops [Music] and i misspoke on the name i risk misread it actually it's lon schmidt not lori schmidt um hold on to christmas obviously a fan favorite really really beautiful voice great piano sound i'm assuming that was a real piano unless it's a really really good sample but really nice um yeah just love that one and frankly that's a great example of why i wanted people to just do piano vocal or guitar vocals today because a great song is a great song with nothing more than a piano vocal or guitar vocal and i wanted everybody to be on equal footing you know not that it's a contest in any way shape or form but um i just uh yeah i didn't want anybody coming in with 101 strings and you know 80 voice choir and just like i wanted everybody just to appreciate the songs the intimacy um all right the next one up is called merry christmas appropriately and i've already screwed up the ganks whoops there we go back to the top this is bert cross merry christmas [Music] it's that time of year to celebrate many happy things just come to mind thinking how to spend those precious moments reflecting on just why this is a special time everything's just fine all the parties of the holidays remembering the friends we hold so dear seeing family faces and saying the same merry christmas have a blessed new year there's some who pray for gifts of love while embracing the gift that's from hubbard others may seem and merry play [Music] sharing hugs and kisses on that christmas day we know the reason for this season clinging to a faith we hold so dear singing all those old songs and saying the same merry christmas merry christmas [Music] merry christmas have a blessed new year [Music] merry christmas oh merry christmas to you too [Applause] not as fast on the draw as i used to be when i was a younger man go back to the top on that that's going to start playing again all right that was really cool great job on that love the the piano sound love the texture on the vocal loved the melodic thing everybody was loving it getting a lot of really nice comments that once again was merry christmas by bert cross and i'm guessing that bert might not have been the vocalist on that that he might have had somebody else sing it but wow the producer in me is hearing you know this voice with that song and maybe this person playing guitar on it putting it all together um it was really really good okay this next one i'm curious about the title it's called 364 or 364. um it's by gary sellnis and i have no idea what the 364 means other than maybe the other 364 days a year that aren't christmas it looks like it's got a lot of levels so i'm guessing at a fader setting and here we go 364 days a year all you have to do is act like it is here let everyday be christmas be thoughtful kind and true treat everyone as if they were you we're all in this together so let's all do our part to make this world better have a heart to love and to be loved it's so easy to do what goes around comes around right back to you how can you miss christmas when 364 days a year all you have to do is act like it is here let every day be christmas be thoughtful kind and true treat everyone as if they were you love is it every day now more than ever what would jesus say before throwing stones stop and ask what would jesus do loves everyone do you [Music] how can you miss christmas when 364 days a year all you have to do is act like it is here let every day be christmas be thoughtful kind and true treat everyone as if they were you it's all about people how we care for each other love me gets loved so become a beginner love is the gift that keeps on giving so give it to everyone make your life worth living how can you miss christmas with 364 days a year all you have to do is [Music] be thoughtful kind and true treat everyone [Music] man i gotta be faster on the draw uh that was very cool and i i think i guessed right 300 the other 364 days kristen knight taking off uh bye kristen great to see you in the chat anyway if not see you in person have a great christmas and a wonderful new year um what's next we have carl wurzbach up to bat next this is called christmas present let me go back to something ah sorry [Music] once again christmas presents for coming good times so nice to see you this time of the year we've been friends forever your face makes me smile come on inside and sit down for a while this house is humming there's kids everywhere mama's been cooking all week take a deep breath now don't that smell good yeah we got some fine things to eat [Music] i love just sitting here talking with you but something is missing do you feel it too i cannot explain it and i don't know why but i think i'm crying there's tears in my eyes oh this year was crazy everything changed the world got turned upside down people are gone folks that i love so dear and it's so hard they're not around see i miss my father and you miss your wife well friends miss the loved ones who nodded their lives we remember [Music] they were the presence [Music] beauty and lessons but this year at christmas we'll miss their present the brothers and sisters who live in our hearts there is no distance can keep us apart hold on to the magic cling to the essence [Music] remember their presence i miss my father you miss your wife we all miss the children were gone from our lives hold on to the magic and dance with the essence this year at christmas let's sing to their presence [Music] hey thanks for coming good times good cheer so nice to see you this time of the year [Music] [Applause] great job carl great job was that you singing uh i don't think i've ever spoken to you on the phone it's like unless you were one of the call-in people on one of the quarantini shows uh but great vocal texture love that love the um it's the word i'm looking for um i can't think of it but you did that song what frank sinatra would do to a lyric which is you made it be real come to life made it intimate really really really nice job artie todesco in the house artie how are you bro artie and i worked together in the studio um 1970 79 somewhere around there 77 maybe at beautiful triad recording in fort lauderdale wow good to see you in there it's been a long time um all right um how much time we're good on time all right next one is called hang on it's christmas time this is by graham mizin [Music] well i've spoken to dad on the phone now i'm waiting for christmas to come and i can't wait to see what he's getting for me but something is leaving me now cause whatever has happened this year a time to forget now i fear how i wish that they could be together with me cause hang on it's christmas time he moved away in february he said he had to go but at this time of year our cans we all be together [Music] together as this nose falling down from the sky look up and i'm wondering why daddy's moved so far away he's not coming here today hang on it's christmas time i know we see that every now and then mom says it's all for the best [Music] but at this time of year can't we all be together together well my sister and i will be fine cause i'm 12 she's 10 and in time we'll get used to this thing that's been happening and come on it's christmas time and i hope the dad will see the card under his tree it says we'll think of him at christmas wow beautiful [Applause] maurice cobb sums it up nicely jaw on floor yeah absolutely beautiful beautifully crafted lyrics great vocal performance really cool guitar playing and if i may add a little something for the other engineers in the room the reverb was really cool love the pre-delay on the reverb just awesome reverb it was really really really good um okay we have four more left this one's called kids again christmas by stephen elling bring up my fader a pinch because it looks a pinch low let's have a listen kids again christmas [Music] [Music] it's that time of year again my dear to trim the christmas tree make it shine so bright throughout the night for all the world to see let's just be kids again the way we used to do make a christmas wish again and see if it might come true hang the stockings up and share a cup of good old christmas cheer come and sit with me and you'll agree it's the best time of the year let's just be kids again the way we used to do [Music] make a christmas wish again and see if it might come true how i love to see our family all gathered round with me such a simple thing that christmas brings as perfect as could be warm my feet by the fire and watch the snow drift by hanging up the mistletoe we're cozy from the cold outside [Music] [Music] cause my favorite part that fills my heart he's spending christmas time with you christmas time with you [Music] [Applause] whoops [Music] i hit stop anyway that was kids again christmas by stephen elling that was beautiful great job on the vocal whoever sang that you did a wonderful job um loved the guitar playing really really cool we doing we got 21 minutes all right um liz just because i'm curious if you could dig up uh greg carosa's song which is acapella apparently unless somebody's got an acapella in the next three i would love to hear crow's acapella thing so uh if you could find that if possible in the next few minutes and email it to the gmail address maybe we can squeeze that one in if we've got time all right uh next up we've got laguna christmas by brian gibson hear the choir in the distance singing lullabies to christmas wondrous eyes ever wishful search the skies peace on earth sang the angels to the child in the manger long ago for all the world to know we've been waiting for miracle to come to heal this broken world imagine all of us saying we've had enough and there'll be no more waiting [Music] waiting on a miracle no more waiting waiting on a miracle at the very heart of christmas lies a year and deep within us a memory so blissful filled with hope [Music] come this christmas morning may you feel that burning in your soul a peace from long ago we've been waiting on a miracle to come to hear this broken world imagine all of us saying we've had enough and there'll be no more waiting [Music] [Music] miracles [Music] [Applause] all right liz just told me that she's got the carosa thing in my inbox but it's a cover i thought we asked for originals but you know what i want to hear an acapella so if we have time i think we're going to have time i'll slip it in funny enough as many of you know i was in israel last month from like november 10th right after the rally until december 10th and the apartment that we were staying in has a little squawk box that goes down to the doorman in the lobby or whatever and uh i i found it amusing um not inappropriate but amusing that when the guy downstairs called to say your guest has arrived they had played jingle bells and it was in the middle of hanukkah maybe dreidel dreidel dreidel during hanukkah i don't know anyway i thought that was funny and cute all right that was laguna christmas by brian gibson and now we're going to hear from matt glickstein or glick stein and karen mitchell this is called real christmas magic [Music] we didn't have much but we have accounts a house full of love and we spread it around a lifetime of memories wrapped up under the tree i've always believed [Music] real christmas magic his family and friends making the moments i'll never forget peace love and happiness as long as i live the greatest gift is feeling that real christmas magic [Music] seeing hugs and smiles has me joining [Music] me and like a child dreaming again santa's on his way closed my eyes and right on his sleigh but i know today [Music] christmas magic is family and friends making the moments i'll never forget [Music] love and happiness as long as i live the greatest gift is feeling that real christmas magical [Music] real christmas magic is family and friends making the moments i'll never forget [Music] peace and happiness as long as i live the greatest gift is feeling that real christmas magic feeling that real christmas magic feeling that real christmas magic [Applause] great job on that love the vocals um love the texture of the lead vocal um both in the natural sound of the voice and the recording of it sounded great you guys just gave me an idea um you're right i've got a a little true confession time 99.9 of the time anytime an email goes out from us for a taxi tv all the listings literally all the listings that you see i look at all that stuff and i didn't look at the email that went out for this show i did say last week on the show wanted it to be originals and i and bria said to me do you want to check the email i said figuring what could possibly go wrong well apparently it didn't mention that the song should be original so that's what went wrong you have my apologies so i can solve this problem and make amends i was reaching out to robin frederick for next week's show but then again i know that robin always spends the week between christmas and new year's with her sister and i thought ah man i don't want to bother her and ask her to do a show when she's with her sis that she only gets to see a couple times a year so next week we're going to take and we're not taking any more submissions because we got 300 as it is but next week we will do another round of christmas songs and we will try and focus mainly on covers because there are some in there um so there you go um but no more submissions please don't beg please don't yeah we got 300 to go through all right so well now a little less than 300 but uh so how does that sound you guys um mary and larry says oh what a great idea she's my favorite critic i love mary all right uh great so that's the plan next week on the 27th yes next week monday the 27th at 4 p.m right back here we will listen to more christmas songs from you guys and they will be um piano vocals or guitar vocals and we will include uh rainy bears in the room hello reiny uh we will include the covers because that was my fault for not checking the email all right let's listen to this one's from maggie coco it's called missing you for christmas [Music] christmas just won't be the same without [Music] with all my heart my mind i sing this tribute on the days i find it hard to start i sing merry christmas [Applause] [Music] you're the greatest gift you've ever given i was blessed to have you for a time [Music] life goes on but sometimes [Music] every day nothing could replace the love i'm still i see the stars and how they glistened remembering the warmth that we both knew merry christmas [Applause] i love you to the end every year that goes on by i imagine that i'll cry a little less merry christmas [Music] merry christmas [Music] merry christmas [Music] [Applause] beautiful wow what a voice um maggie were you in the room beautiful voice okay give me a minute i am gonna go check my email see if i can find mr carosa there we have it [Music] jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is [Music] laughing all the way [Music] oh jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh how fun it [Music] two is i thought i'd take a ride as soon as fatty bright was seated by my side the horse was leaning like this fortune seemed his life [Music] jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is [Music] oh jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is be [Music] [Applause] wow incredibly good sounds like the cast of glee stopped by your house was that you singing on that greg looking for an answer from greg come on greg shut the refrigerator come back to your computer lead vocals david paul zimmer singing on the bass and david and i are both doing the other harmonies well incredibly good job really really really first rate um we do have three minutes 45 seconds left um i saw somebody asking play my song you know if i do it for one person i have to do it for everybody we've only got like three and a half minutes left so anna kala i'm sorry but maybe your song will get played next week and plus we've got like 300 of them in the pile so for liz to go find that now and get it and email it to me we would be over time so i'm so sorry but we will um have next week right back here four o'clock on monday we will continue the vibe this was a lot of fun you guys really really really great job uh and i'm always so appreciative of how brave people are to put their music out there in front of a bunch of other musicians you know and i always need to remind myself that the taxi crowd is not like the crowd that you see like on some of the facebook or twitter stuff or some other forums where people are like ew i wouldn't have done it like that maybe you know so you guys really talented really worked hard in this stuff and um the audience definitely appreciative very much in the christmas spirit with that i would like to wish you all a merry christmas um i hope that you and your families are healthy and happy and get together and sit around the fireplace and drink a lot of booze because i hear that fireplaces and liquor kill covet germs when they're traveling through the air um anyway uh see you next week which will be short like two days after christmas we'll do this again thank you so much for joining us today bye bye and see you good night from los angeles [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 88min 30sec (5310 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 20 2021