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Laid-back Christmas Gems

Find your new festive favourites with this off-beat selection of hidden gems and covers.

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Sun 11 Dec 202202:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Khruangbin

    Christmas Time Is Here

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Purple Snowflakes

    • A Motown Christmas Volume 2 (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • The Sha La Das

    Sha La Da La La (Christmas Time)

    • Love in the Wind.
    • Daptone Records.

  • Beach House

    I Do Not Care For The Winter Sun

    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Kate Bush

    December Will Be Magic Again

    • It's Christmas Time (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Snow Is Falling in Manhattan (feat. Jarvis Cocker & Feist)

    • Gentle Threat.

  • Harry Nilsson

    Snow (Alternate Version)

    • RCA Records.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Ring Them Bells

  • Bob Dylan

    Winterlude

    • Columbia/Legacy.

  • Low

    Just Like Christmas

    • JEEPSTER RECORDINGS.

  • Girl in Red

    two queens in a king sized bed

    • world in red.

  • St. Vincent

    Happy Birthday, Johnny

    • MASSEDUCTION.
    • Concord Bicycle Music.
    • 6.

  • Phoebe Bridgers

    Christmas Song

    • Dead Oceans.

  • Joni Mitchell

    River

    • Reprise.

  • Fleet Foxes

    White Winter Hymnal

    • Bella Union.

  • The Unthanks

    2000 Miles

    • Rabble Rouser Music.

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Donna and Blitzen

    • XL.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    We Three Kings

    • Capitol Records.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Winter Wonderland

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana.

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & Sandra Robinson

    Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

    • (single).
    • Trojan Records.

  • James Brown

    Christmas Is Love

  • Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

    Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects

    • Daptone Records.

  • Prince

    Another Lonely Christmas

    • Warner Bros.

  • LCD Soundsystem

    Christmas Will Break Your Heart

    • LCD SOUNDSYSTEM.

  • The Velvet Underground

    Jesus

  • Mazzy Star

    Flowers In December

    • Flowers In December.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 1.

  • Broadcast

    Winter Now

    • Warp Records.

  • Luke Temple

    The Birds of Late December

  • Marika Hackman

    Driving Under Stars

    • Transgressive.

  • Au Revoir Simone

    Fallen Snow

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Merry Christmas Baby

  • Carla Thomas

    Gee Whizz, It's Christmas

    • The Original Soul Christmas.

  • Sonny Boy Williamson

    Santa Claus

  • The Drifters

    White Christmas

    • Billboard Greatest Xmas Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio

    Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal)

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Dec 202202:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music