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=== What is the December Musical Gifstravaganza (DMG)?===
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It's a way for MetaChatters to recommend and share holiday music throughout the month of December. MetaChatters sign up for a certain day or set of days throughout the month, then post some music to share.<br>
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Services like [http://www.divshare.com/ DivShare] make it easy to let other listeners sample music before making a commitment to owning it, so that's one we've liked a lot. Of course, you are also encouraged to incorporate videos, images, personal stories, lyrics, and whatever else you think goes along with your selection.
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<br>
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Music for any end-of-year-timed holiday or no special holiday at all is welcome, but it's great if it can be winter-seasonal somehow as that is what many participants are especially looking for.
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Participation tips:
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<li>Make sure your post title includes "December Musical Gifstravaganza" or DMG.
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<li>Test your sample link before finalizing your post, to make sure it works.
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<li>Make sure you specify the actual names of the songs somewhere, preferably inside the post after the More Inside tag.
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<li>Have fun!
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We'll use this Wiki page to keep a list of past songs recommended. 
 
=== 2007 ===
 
=== 2007 ===
 
Miko started the DMG as [http://metachat.org/index.php/2007/12/02/miko_s_musical_mecha_advent_calendar Miko's Musical Advent Calendar].<br>
 
Miko started the DMG as [http://metachat.org/index.php/2007/12/02/miko_s_musical_mecha_advent_calendar Miko's Musical Advent Calendar].<br>
Songs posted:<br>
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12/1 '''Nay, Ivy, Nay''', artist unknown<br>
 
12/1 '''Nay, Ivy, Nay''', artist unknown<br>
 
12/2 '''Winter Weather''', Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy Lee and Art Lund<br>
 
12/2 '''Winter Weather''', Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy Lee and Art Lund<br>
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12/21 '''Run Run Rudolph''', Dave Edmunds<br>
 
12/21 '''Run Run Rudolph''', Dave Edmunds<br>
 
12/22 '''Children, Go Where I Send Thee''', The Gospel Scarlets<br>
 
12/22 '''Children, Go Where I Send Thee''', The Gospel Scarlets<br>
12/23 '''Remember, Harry Nilsson'''<br>
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12/23 '''Remember''', Harry Nilsson<br>
12/24 '''Guadete, Steeleye Span'''<br>
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12/24 '''Guadete''', Steeleye Span<br>
 
12/25 '''Merry XMas, War is Over!''', John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band<br>
 
12/25 '''Merry XMas, War is Over!''', John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band<br>
  
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=== 2009===
 
=== 2009===
Miko made a 2nd, somewhat truncated attempt.<br>
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Miko made a 2nd, truncated attempt to offer a whole month<br>
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12/1 '''Troika''', Prokofiev<br>
 
12/1 '''Troika''', Prokofiev<br>
 
12/2 '''Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy''', David Bowie and Bing Crosby<br>
 
12/2 '''Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy''', David Bowie and Bing Crosby<br>
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=== 2010===
 
=== 2010===
 
[http://metachat.org/index.php/2010/12/05/p45582#more45582 Discussion this year] led to a new idea of having many participants instead of one. Thus was born the December Musical Gifstravaganza. It began on December 7. <br>
 
[http://metachat.org/index.php/2010/12/05/p45582#more45582 Discussion this year] led to a new idea of having many participants instead of one. Thus was born the December Musical Gifstravaganza. It began on December 7. <br>
12/8 '''Christmas in Heaven''', Monty Python. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/9 '''O Magnum Mysterium''', Bill Taft and Kelly Hogan. Posted by Miko.<br>
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12/8 Boring Postcards: '''Christmas in Heaven''', Monty Python.<br>
12/10 '''My Chimney''', DJ Riko featuring Marcie. Posted by rhapsodie. <br>
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12/9 Miko: '''O Magnum Mysterium''', Bill Taft and Kelly Hogan.<br>
12/11 '''Falling in Love (With Christmastime)''', Moneybrother. Posted by Hugh Janus.
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12/10 Rhapsodie:'''My Chimney''', DJ Riko featuring Marcie.<br>
12/12 '''The Wexford Carol''', Nanci Griffith and the Chieftains. Posted by Miko.<br>
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12/11 Hugh Janus: '''Falling in Love (With Christmastime)''', Moneybrother.<br>
12/13''' December Will Be Magic Again''', Kate Bush. Posted by Miko.<br>
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12/12 Miko: '''The Wexford Carol''', Nanci Griffith and the Chieftains.<br>
12/14 '''Fuck You, Motherfucker, It's Christmas''', Brad Sucks. Posted by rhapsodie.<br>
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12/13 Miko: ''' December Will Be Magic Again''', Kate Bush.<br>
12/15 Selection from''' The Christmas Oratorio''', JS Bach. Posted by gaspode.<br>
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12/14 Rhapsodie: '''Fuck You, Motherfucker, It's Christmas''', Brad Sucks.<br>
12/16 '''Five Pound Box of Money''', Pearle Bailey, and '''Zat You, Santa Claus'''?, Ingrid Lucia. Posted by initapplette.<br>
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12/15 Gaspode: Selection from''' The Christmas Oratorio''', JS Bach.<br>
12/17 '''Christmas''', The Opal Foxx Quartet Posted by Boring Postcards. <br>
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12/16 Initapplette: '''Five Pound Box of Money''', Pearl Bailey, and '''Zat You, Santa Claus'''?, Ingrid Lucia.<br>
12/18 '''Arthur McBride''', Ox. Posted by Hugh Janus. <br>
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12/17 Boring Postcards: '''Christmas''', The Opal Foxx Quartet. <br>
12/19 '''Lovely Vine''' and '''Adeste Fideles''', Boston Camerata. Posted by initapplette. <br>
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12/18 Hugh Janus: '''Arthur McBride''', Ox.<br>
12/20 '''Chestnuts''', 31D1. Posted by rhapsodie.<br>
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12/19 Initapplette: '''Lovely Vine''' and '''Adeste Fideles''', Boston Camerata<br>
12/21 '''Christmas is Now Drawing Near''', Coil. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/20 Rhapsodie: '''Chestnuts''', 31D1.<br>
12/22 '''Here Comes Fatty Claus''', Rudolph & Gang. Posted by gaspode.<br>
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12/21 Boring Postcards: '''Christmas is Now Drawing Near''', Coil.<br>
12/23 '''Sol Invictus''', Thea Gilmore. Posted by danf.<br>
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12/22 Gaspode: '''Here Comes Fatty Claus''', Rudolph & Gang.<br>
12/24 '''The Rebel Jesus''', Jackson Browne and the McGarrigle Family; '''Christmas Anthem''' by some shapenote singers; and '''Christmas Time for Girls and Boys''' by Ludwig Van. Posted by Miko.<br>
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12/23 Danf: '''Sol Invictus''', Thea Gilmore.<br>
12/28 '''Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman''', Showcase Showdown. Posted by ufez.<br>
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12/24 Miko: '''The Rebel Jesus''', Jackson Browne and the McGarrigle Family; '''Christmas Anthem''' by some shapenote singers; and '''Christmas Time for Girls and Boys''' by Ludwig Van..<br>
12/29 '''Hell Interface''',Soylent Night; '''The Magic of Christmas''', Pac Man; '''Nu Roots''', Roy Davis Jr. Posted by  filthy light thief.<br>
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12/28 Ufez: '''Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman''', Showcase Showdown.<br>
12/30 '''Cold December''', Matt Costa; '''Our December''' , Thriving Ivory. Posted by rhapsodie<br>
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12/29 Filthy Light Thief: '''Hell Interface''',Soylent Night; '''The Magic of Christmas''', Pac Man; '''Nu Roots''', Roy Davis Jr. <br>
1/2/2011 '''White Wine In The Sun''', Tim Minchin. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/30 Rhapsodie: '''Cold December''', Matt Costa; '''Our December''' , Thriving Ivory.<br>
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1/2/2011 Boring Postcards: '''White Wine In The Sun''', Tim Minchin.<br>
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=== 2011 ===
 
=== 2011 ===
12/1 '''The Twenty-Fifth Day of December''', Middle Georgia Four. Posted by Miko<br>
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It was so much fun we did it again!
12/2 '''Come on Christmas, Christmas, Come On''', Ringo Starr. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/3 '''Winter Wonderland''', Ashtray Babyhead. Posted by richat.
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12/1 Miko: '''The Twenty-Fifth Day of December''', Middle Georgia Four.<br>
12/4 '''Party Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (LMFAO vs Brenda Lee)''', DJ McFly. Posted by bluesapphires. <br>
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12/2 Boring Postcards: '''Come on Christmas, Christmas, Come On''', Ringo Starr.<br>
12/5 '''There Must Be an Angel''', The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. Posted by Asok.<br>
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12/3 Richat: '''Winter Wonderland''', Ashtray Babyhead.<br>
12/6 '''''Bogoroditse Devo''''', '''''Josepeh Lieber, Joseph Mein''''', and '''Justin Bieber, Justin Mine''', choral performances. Posted by Melismata.<br>
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12/4 Bluesapphires: '''Party Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (LMFAO vs Brenda Lee)''', DJ McFly. P <br>
12/7 '''Up on the Housetop''', '''The Jackson 5''', and '''What Christmas Means to Me''', Stevie Wonder. Posted by initapplette.
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12/5 Asok: '''There Must Be an Angel''', The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir.<br>
12/8 '''One Little Christmas Tree''', Stevie Wonder. Posted by Slack-a-Go-Go.<br>
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12/6 Madamina: '''''Bogoroditse Devo''''' (Rachmaninoff), '''''Josepeh Lieber, Joseph Mein''''', and '''Justin Bieber, Justin Mine''', choral performances. <br>
12/9 '''Il est né le divin enfant'''''Italic text'', versions by Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois Montage, the Salt Lake City Choir, Demis Rousseaus, Tino Rossie, The Chieftains with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Souixsie and the Banshees. Posted by Senyar.<br>
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12/7 Initapplette: '''Up on the Housetop''', The Jackson 5, and '''What Christmas Means to Me''', Stevie Wonder.<br>
12/10 No post
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12/8 Slack-a-Go-Go: '''One Little Christmas Tree''', Stevie Wonder. <br>
12/11  '''Back Door Santa''', Clarence Carter; Lonely Christmas Eve, Phrozenlight (Bert Hulshoff);''' Christmas With the Believers'''. Posted by arse_hat.<br>
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12/9 Senyar: '''Il est né le divin enfant'''''Italic text'', versions by Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois Montage, the Salt Lake City Choir, Demis Rousseaus, Tino Rossie, The Chieftains with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.<br>
12/12 '''Mele Kalikimaka''' and '''Sleigh Ride''', Arthur Lyman and His Orchestra. Posted by Miko.<br>
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12/10 No post<br>
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12/11 Arse_hat: '''Back Door Santa''', Clarence Carter; Lonely Christmas Eve, Phrozenlight (Bert Hulshoff);''' Christmas With the Believers'''.<br>
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12/12 Miko: '''Mele Kalikimaka''' and '''Sleigh Ride''', Arthur Lyman and His Orchestra.<br>
 
12/13 No post<br>
 
12/13 No post<br>
12/14 '''The Trees''', Richard Cheese, and the first of the Beatles' Christmas records. Posted by arse_hat.<br>
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12/14 Arse_Hat:  '''The Trees''', Richard Cheese, and the first of the Beatles' Christmas records.<br>
12/15''' Christmas Medley''' and '''Silent Night''', Spike Jones. Posted by danf. <br>
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12/15 Danf: ''' Christmas Medley''' and '''Silent Night''', Spike Jones.<br>
12/16 '''R2D2, We Wish You A Merry Christmas''',''' What Do You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)''', '''Sleigh Ride''', Star Wars "Christmas in the Stars" album; '''The Cat Carol''', Meryn Cadell; '''Father Christmas''', The Kinks. Posted by Madamina. <br>
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12/16 Madamina: '''R2D2, We Wish You A Merry Christmas''',''' What Do You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)''', '''Sleigh Ride''', Star Wars "Christmas in the Stars" album; '''The Cat Carol''', Meryn Cadell; '''Father Christmas''', The Kinks. <br>
12/17 No post
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12/17 No post<br>
12/18 ''' Frosty the Snow Man''', Ella Fitzgerald; '''O Little Town of Bethlehem''', Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Posted by initapplette.<br>
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12/18 Initapplette: ''' Frosty the Snow Man''', Ella Fitzgerald; '''O Little Town of Bethlehem''', Sister Rosetta Tharpe.<br>
12/19 '''I Want a Monkey For Christmas''', The Barbary Coasters. Posted by ufez. <br>
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12/19 Ufez: '''I Want a Monkey For Christmas''', The Barbary Coasters.<br>
12/20 '''Christmas at Jimo's House''' mix. Posted by filthy light thief. <br>
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12/20 Filthy Light Thief: '''Christmas at Jimo's House''' mix. <br>
12/21 '''Nou is Yole Comen''', Portland Revels. Posted by bearwife.
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12/21 Bearwife: '''Nou is Yole Comen''', Portland Revels.<br>
12/22 '''Christmas Lights''', J Church. Posted by Boring Postcards.
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12/22 Boring Postcards: '''Christmas Lights''', J Church..<br>
12/23 '''Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)''', The Ramones; '''Let It Snow!'''; Luscious Jackson; '''Jingle Rock Bell''', Pink Stainless Tail; '''Fairytale of New York''', Billy Bragg and Florence Welch.<br> Posted by richat.
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12/23 Richat: '''Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)''', The Ramones; '''Let It Snow!'''; Luscious Jackson; '''Jingle Rock Bell''', Pink Stainless Tail; '''Fairytale of New York''', Billy Bragg and Florence Welch.<br>
12/24 '''Winter Wonderland''',''' O Little Town of Bethlehem''', '''Christmas Island''', and '''Adeste Fideles''', The Lennon Sisters. Posted by JanetLand.
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12/24 JanetLand: '''Winter Wonderland''',''' O Little Town of Bethlehem''', '''Christmas Island''', and '''Adeste Fideles''', The Lennon Sisters, and a horrible bonus of '''Frosty the Snowman''', Billy Idol, PLUS an even more horrible bonus from Boring Postcards, '''I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus''', Tiny Tim. <br>
12/25 '''White Wine in the Sun''', Tim Minchin. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/25 Boring Postcards: '''White Wine in the Sun''', Tim Minchin.<br>
12/26 Selections from the '''Trans Siberian Orchestra''', posted by sperose.<br>
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12/26 Sperose Selections by the '''Trans Siberian Orchestra'''<br>
12/27 '''The Twelve Pains of Christmas''',''' The Chimney Song''', '''Jesus's Birthday''', '''The 'What's It to Ya' Chorus''', '''Didn't I Get This Last Year''', Bob Rivers. Posted by bluesapphires.
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12/27 Bluesapphires: '''The Twelve Pains of Christmas''',''' The Chimney Song''', '''Jesus's Birthday''', '''The 'What's It to Ya' Chorus''', '''Didn't I Get This Last Year''', Bob Rivers.<br>
12/28 No post
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12/28 No post<br>
12/29 '''Winter Love''', Robyn Hitchcock. Posted by Boring Postcards.<br>
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12/29 Boring Postcards: '''Winter Love''', Robyn Hitchcock.<br>
12/30 '''Good Morning Moon''', '''Anchorage''', and '''The Avocado Song''', Marian Call. Posted by rhapsodie.
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12/30 Rhapsodie: '''Good Morning Moon''', '''Anchorage''', and '''The Avocado Song''', Marian Call. Po<br>
12/31 '''It's Just Another New Year's Eve''', Barry Manilow. Posted by JanetLand.
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12/31 JanetLand: '''It's Just Another New Year's Eve''', Barry Manilow, and '''Happy New Year''', ABBA.<br>
  
 
=== 2012===
 
=== 2012===
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Why stop when you got a good thing going on?<br>
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<br>
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Dec 1 - Miko: '''The Song the Season Brings''', Beta Radio.<br>
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Dec 2 - Madamina: '''White Wine in the Sun''', Tim Minchin<br>
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Dec 3 - Bearwife: '''Linus & Lucy''', Vince Guaraldi<br>
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Dec 4 - Slack-a-gogo: '''I Wanna Be Dentated-Blitzen's Bop''', MojoChronic<br>
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Dec 5 - JanetLand: '''Shake Hands With Santa Claus''', Louis Prima<br>
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Dec 6 - BoringPostcards: '''Jesus Christ''', Big Star<br>
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Dec 7 - Senyar: '''Merry Christmas, I Don't Want To Fight Tonight''', The Ramones<br>
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Dec 8 - bluesapphires: '''Hanukkah Blessings''', Barenaked Ladies; '''The Dreydel Song''', El Vez; '''Oh Hanukkah''', Gods of Fire; '''Honky Tonk Hanukkah''', Honky Tonk Confidential; '''Chanukah Suite''', Los Angeles Master Chorale (composer Jason Robert Brown); '''Candlelight''', The Maccabeats; '''Miracle''', Matisyahu; '''(I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica''', Tom Lehrer<br>
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Dec 9 - gaspode: '''We Three Kings (Of Orient Are)''', Jimmy Smith<br>
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Dec 10 - Miko: The Klematics' '''The Many and the Few''', '''Groovy's Freylekhs''', and '''Hanukkah's Flame'''<br>
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Dec 11 - arse_hat: '''Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas'''<br>
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Dec 12 - danf: '''Santa Put the Hurt on You,''' Benny Grunch<br>
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Dec 13 - initapplette: [http://metachat.org/index.php/2012/12/13/p50590#more50590'''Angels From the Realms of Glory'''], Annie Lennox<br> 
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Dec 14 - eekacat: '''Jingle Bells''', Schroeder from A Charlie Brown Christmas, '''Jingle Bells''', Jimmy Smith and '''Jingle Bells''', Mojo Nixon<br>
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Dec 15 - ufez: '''Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights)''', JD McPherson<br>
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Dec 16 - JanetLand: '''Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord''', Boney M<br>
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Dec 17 - Miko: '''Still, Still Still''' (Sarah Whiteley and Garrison Kiellor)<br>
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Dec 18 - Madamina: '''Go Power At Christmas Time''', James Brown; '''Jesus Was A Dreidel Spinner''', Jill Sobule; '''Christmas is Cancelled''', Long Blondes; '''Getting Down For Xmas''', Milly & Silly<br>
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Dec 19 - undue influence: '''12 Days Of Christmas''', Relient K<br>
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Dec 20 - Slack-a-gogo: '''Merry Christmas Will Do''', Material Issue; '''This Christmaas''', the Shoes; '''It's About That Time''', the Idea.<br>
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Dec 21 - initapplette: [http://metachat.org/index.php/2012/12/21/musical_gifstravaganza_day_21'''Jolly Old Saint Nicholas'''], Maurice Chevalier<br>
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Dec 22 - Senyar: '''Santa's Out of Rehab by Christmas''', Adam's House Cat<br>
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Dec 23 - BoringPostcards: '''I Still Believe In Christmas''', The Fleshtones; '''Champagne of Christmas''', The Fleshtones<br>
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Dec 24 - JanetLand: '''Christmas Waltz''', Doris Day<br>
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Dec 25 - gaspode<br>
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Dec 26 - Ardiril: '''Telstar''', Tornadoes<br>
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Dec 27 - initapplette: [http://metachat.org/index.php/2012/12/27/musical_giftstravaganza_day_27'''The Bells of St. Mary's and My Favorite Things'''], Andy Williams<br>
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Dec 28 - bluesapphires: '''Hippopotamus for Christmas''', Gayla Peevey<br>
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Dec 29 - arse_hat<br>
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Dec 30 - initapplette: [http://metachat.org/index.php/2012/12/30/december_musical_gifstravaganza_day_30'''Figgy Pudding'''], Johnny Cash and the Carter Family<br>
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Dec 31 - eekacat<br>
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and for fun<br>
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Jan 1, 2013! - arse_hat<br>
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=== 2013 ===
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It's back!<br>
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Dec 1 - Miko: Beta Radio again with their 3rd annual EP '''The Song the Season Brings Vol. 3'''<br>
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Dec 3 - theora55: Santastic7<br>
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Dec 6 - bearwife: '''Carol of the Bells (Ukrainian Carol)''', Seattle Girls Choir; '''Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah!''', Tzlil V’zemer Children’s Choir <br>
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Dec 7 - arse_hat: '''Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)''', Darlene Love <br>
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Dec 8 - Initapplette: '''Glory to God in the Highest''', composed by Giovanni Batista Pergolesi<br>
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Dec 11 - Initapplette: <br>
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Dec 14 - arse_hat:  '''Joseph, Who Understood''', The New Pornographers; '''Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis''', Neko Case<br>
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Dec 17 - ufez: <br>
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Dec 18 - Initapplette: <br>
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Dec 21 - Danf: '''Cry of a Tiny Babe''', Bruce Cockburn<br>
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Dec 23 - bluesapphires: '''You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch''': (1) Thurl Ravenscroft, (2) The Brian Setzer Orchestra, (3) Deanna Kirk, (4) Rockapella, (5) Rebecca Shrimpton and Eric Hotbauer<br>
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Dec 30 - bluesapphires: '''O Holy Night''': (1) Martina McBride, (2) Pentatonix<br>
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Jan 1 - arse_hat:

Latest revision as of 22:59, 29 December 2013

What is the December Musical Gifstravaganza (DMG)?

It's a way for MetaChatters to recommend and share holiday music throughout the month of December. MetaChatters sign up for a certain day or set of days throughout the month, then post some music to share.
Services like DivShare make it easy to let other listeners sample music before making a commitment to owning it, so that's one we've liked a lot. Of course, you are also encouraged to incorporate videos, images, personal stories, lyrics, and whatever else you think goes along with your selection.
Music for any end-of-year-timed holiday or no special holiday at all is welcome, but it's great if it can be winter-seasonal somehow as that is what many participants are especially looking for.

Participation tips:

  • Make sure your post title includes "December Musical Gifstravaganza" or DMG.
  • Test your sample link before finalizing your post, to make sure it works.
  • Make sure you specify the actual names of the songs somewhere, preferably inside the post after the More Inside tag.
  • Have fun! We'll use this Wiki page to keep a list of past songs recommended.

    2007

    Miko started the DMG as Miko's Musical Advent Calendar.

    12/1 Nay, Ivy, Nay, artist unknown
    12/2 Winter Weather, Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy Lee and Art Lund
    12/3 Let it Snow, Sam Bush
    12/4 Christmas Wrapping, the Waitresses
    12/5 Great Day in December, The Swan Silvertones
    12/6 Joy to the World, John Fahey
    12/7 The Boar's Head Carol, Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band
    12/8 (Just Like) Starting Over, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
    12/9 Santa's Got a Big Old Bag, The BellRays
    12/10 Trinquez, Trinquez, Michael Doucet
    12/11 Christmas in Prison, John Prine
    12/12 Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Bruce Springsteen
    12/13 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Judy Garland
    12/14 Overture and Sugar Rum Cherry, Duke Ellington
    12/16 Thanksgiving Theme, Vince Guaraldi
    12/17 2000 Miles, The Pretenders
    12/18 Merry Christmas from the Family, Robert Earl Keen
    12/19 The Last Month of the Year, Betty May Bowman
    12/20 A-Roving on a Winter's Night, artist unknown
    12/21 Run Run Rudolph, Dave Edmunds
    12/22 Children, Go Where I Send Thee, The Gospel Scarlets
    12/23 Remember, Harry Nilsson
    12/24 Guadete, Steeleye Span
    12/25 Merry XMas, War is Over!, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band

    2008

    There was no DMG this year.

    2009

    Miko made a 2nd, truncated attempt to offer a whole month

    12/1 Troika, Prokofiev
    12/2 Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy, David Bowie and Bing Crosby
    12/3 Christmas Anthem, by Sacred Harp Singers
    12/4 Sing We Now of Christmas, Hans Christian and Friends
    12/5 What Will Santy Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin'), Louis Prima
    12/6 Angels We Have Heard on High, The Taj Motel Trio
    12/7 Merry Christmas, Baby! By Bruce Springsteen, Otis Redding, and Bonnie Raitt

    2010

    Discussion this year led to a new idea of having many participants instead of one. Thus was born the December Musical Gifstravaganza. It began on December 7.

    12/8 Boring Postcards: Christmas in Heaven, Monty Python.
    12/9 Miko: O Magnum Mysterium, Bill Taft and Kelly Hogan.
    12/10 Rhapsodie:My Chimney, DJ Riko featuring Marcie.
    12/11 Hugh Janus: Falling in Love (With Christmastime), Moneybrother.
    12/12 Miko: The Wexford Carol, Nanci Griffith and the Chieftains.
    12/13 Miko: December Will Be Magic Again, Kate Bush.
    12/14 Rhapsodie: Fuck You, Motherfucker, It's Christmas, Brad Sucks.
    12/15 Gaspode: Selection from The Christmas Oratorio, JS Bach.
    12/16 Initapplette: Five Pound Box of Money, Pearl Bailey, and Zat You, Santa Claus?, Ingrid Lucia.
    12/17 Boring Postcards: Christmas, The Opal Foxx Quartet.
    12/18 Hugh Janus: Arthur McBride, Ox.
    12/19 Initapplette: Lovely Vine and Adeste Fideles, Boston Camerata
    12/20 Rhapsodie: Chestnuts, 31D1.
    12/21 Boring Postcards: Christmas is Now Drawing Near, Coil.
    12/22 Gaspode: Here Comes Fatty Claus, Rudolph & Gang.
    12/23 Danf: Sol Invictus, Thea Gilmore.
    12/24 Miko: The Rebel Jesus, Jackson Browne and the McGarrigle Family; Christmas Anthem by some shapenote singers; and Christmas Time for Girls and Boys by Ludwig Van..
    12/28 Ufez: Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman, Showcase Showdown.
    12/29 Filthy Light Thief: Hell Interface,Soylent Night; The Magic of Christmas, Pac Man; Nu Roots, Roy Davis Jr.
    12/30 Rhapsodie: Cold December, Matt Costa; Our December , Thriving Ivory.
    1/2/2011 Boring Postcards: White Wine In The Sun, Tim Minchin.

    2011

    It was so much fun we did it again!
    12/1 Miko: The Twenty-Fifth Day of December, Middle Georgia Four.
    12/2 Boring Postcards: Come on Christmas, Christmas, Come On, Ringo Starr.
    12/3 Richat: Winter Wonderland, Ashtray Babyhead.
    12/4 Bluesapphires: Party Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (LMFAO vs Brenda Lee), DJ McFly. P
    12/5 Asok: There Must Be an Angel, The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir.
    12/6 Madamina: Bogoroditse Devo (Rachmaninoff), Josepeh Lieber, Joseph Mein, and Justin Bieber, Justin Mine, choral performances.
    12/7 Initapplette: Up on the Housetop, The Jackson 5, and What Christmas Means to Me, Stevie Wonder.
    12/8 Slack-a-Go-Go: One Little Christmas Tree, Stevie Wonder.
    12/9 Senyar: Il est né le divin enfantItalic text, versions by Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois Montage, the Salt Lake City Choir, Demis Rousseaus, Tino Rossie, The Chieftains with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
    12/10 No post
    12/11 Arse_hat: Back Door Santa, Clarence Carter; Lonely Christmas Eve, Phrozenlight (Bert Hulshoff); Christmas With the Believers.
    12/12 Miko: Mele Kalikimaka and Sleigh Ride, Arthur Lyman and His Orchestra.
    12/13 No post
    12/14 Arse_Hat: The Trees, Richard Cheese, and the first of the Beatles' Christmas records.
    12/15 Danf: Christmas Medley and Silent Night, Spike Jones.
    12/16 Madamina: R2D2, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, What Do You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb), Sleigh Ride, Star Wars "Christmas in the Stars" album; The Cat Carol, Meryn Cadell; Father Christmas, The Kinks.
    12/17 No post
    12/18 Initapplette: Frosty the Snow Man, Ella Fitzgerald; O Little Town of Bethlehem, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
    12/19 Ufez: I Want a Monkey For Christmas, The Barbary Coasters.
    12/20 Filthy Light Thief: Christmas at Jimo's House mix.
    12/21 Bearwife: Nou is Yole Comen, Portland Revels.
    12/22 Boring Postcards: Christmas Lights, J Church..
    12/23 Richat: Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight), The Ramones; Let It Snow!; Luscious Jackson; Jingle Rock Bell, Pink Stainless Tail; Fairytale of New York, Billy Bragg and Florence Welch.
    12/24 JanetLand: Winter Wonderland, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Christmas Island, and Adeste Fideles, The Lennon Sisters, and a horrible bonus of Frosty the Snowman, Billy Idol, PLUS an even more horrible bonus from Boring Postcards, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Tiny Tim.
    12/25 Boring Postcards: White Wine in the Sun, Tim Minchin.
    12/26 Sperose Selections by the Trans Siberian Orchestra
    12/27 Bluesapphires: The Twelve Pains of Christmas, The Chimney Song, Jesus's Birthday, The 'What's It to Ya' Chorus, Didn't I Get This Last Year, Bob Rivers.
    12/28 No post
    12/29 Boring Postcards: Winter Love, Robyn Hitchcock.
    12/30 Rhapsodie: Good Morning Moon, Anchorage, and The Avocado Song, Marian Call. Po
    12/31 JanetLand: It's Just Another New Year's Eve, Barry Manilow, and Happy New Year, ABBA.

    2012

    Why stop when you got a good thing going on?

    Dec 1 - Miko: The Song the Season Brings, Beta Radio.
    Dec 2 - Madamina: White Wine in the Sun, Tim Minchin
    Dec 3 - Bearwife: Linus & Lucy, Vince Guaraldi
    Dec 4 - Slack-a-gogo: I Wanna Be Dentated-Blitzen's Bop, MojoChronic
    Dec 5 - JanetLand: Shake Hands With Santa Claus, Louis Prima
    Dec 6 - BoringPostcards: Jesus Christ, Big Star
    Dec 7 - Senyar: Merry Christmas, I Don't Want To Fight Tonight, The Ramones
    Dec 8 - bluesapphires: Hanukkah Blessings, Barenaked Ladies; The Dreydel Song, El Vez; Oh Hanukkah, Gods of Fire; Honky Tonk Hanukkah, Honky Tonk Confidential; Chanukah Suite, Los Angeles Master Chorale (composer Jason Robert Brown); Candlelight, The Maccabeats; Miracle, Matisyahu; (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica, Tom Lehrer
    Dec 9 - gaspode: We Three Kings (Of Orient Are), Jimmy Smith
    Dec 10 - Miko: The Klematics' The Many and the Few, Groovy's Freylekhs, and Hanukkah's Flame
    Dec 11 - arse_hat: Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas
    Dec 12 - danf: Santa Put the Hurt on You, Benny Grunch
    Dec 13 - initapplette: Angels From the Realms of Glory, Annie Lennox
    Dec 14 - eekacat: Jingle Bells, Schroeder from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Jingle Bells, Jimmy Smith and Jingle Bells, Mojo Nixon
    Dec 15 - ufez: Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights), JD McPherson
    Dec 16 - JanetLand: Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord, Boney M
    Dec 17 - Miko: Still, Still Still (Sarah Whiteley and Garrison Kiellor)
    Dec 18 - Madamina: Go Power At Christmas Time, James Brown; Jesus Was A Dreidel Spinner, Jill Sobule; Christmas is Cancelled, Long Blondes; Getting Down For Xmas, Milly & Silly
    Dec 19 - undue influence: 12 Days Of Christmas, Relient K
    Dec 20 - Slack-a-gogo: Merry Christmas Will Do, Material Issue; This Christmaas, the Shoes; It's About That Time, the Idea.
    Dec 21 - initapplette: Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Maurice Chevalier
    Dec 22 - Senyar: Santa's Out of Rehab by Christmas, Adam's House Cat
    Dec 23 - BoringPostcards: I Still Believe In Christmas, The Fleshtones; Champagne of Christmas, The Fleshtones
    Dec 24 - JanetLand: Christmas Waltz, Doris Day
    Dec 25 - gaspode
    Dec 26 - Ardiril: Telstar, Tornadoes
    Dec 27 - initapplette: The Bells of St. Mary's and My Favorite Things, Andy Williams
    Dec 28 - bluesapphires: Hippopotamus for Christmas, Gayla Peevey
    Dec 29 - arse_hat
    Dec 30 - initapplette: Figgy Pudding, Johnny Cash and the Carter Family
    Dec 31 - eekacat
    and for fun
    Jan 1, 2013! - arse_hat

    2013

    It's back!
    Dec 1 - Miko: Beta Radio again with their 3rd annual EP The Song the Season Brings Vol. 3
    Dec 3 - theora55: Santastic7
    Dec 6 - bearwife: Carol of the Bells (Ukrainian Carol), Seattle Girls Choir; Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah!, Tzlil V’zemer Children’s Choir
    Dec 7 - arse_hat: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), Darlene Love
    Dec 8 - Initapplette: Glory to God in the Highest, composed by Giovanni Batista Pergolesi
    Dec 11 - Initapplette:
    Dec 14 - arse_hat: Joseph, Who Understood, The New Pornographers; Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis, Neko Case
    Dec 17 - ufez:
    Dec 18 - Initapplette:
    Dec 21 - Danf: Cry of a Tiny Babe, Bruce Cockburn
    Dec 23 - bluesapphires: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch: (1) Thurl Ravenscroft, (2) The Brian Setzer Orchestra, (3) Deanna Kirk, (4) Rockapella, (5) Rebecca Shrimpton and Eric Hotbauer
    Dec 30 - bluesapphires: O Holy Night: (1) Martina McBride, (2) Pentatonix

    Jan 1 - arse_hat: