WTD 2008 Holidays - Bing Crosby Christmas Radio

[Aaron]

It seems we neglected to open a thread for this holiday channel. It's over now, but please post your comments if you gave this one a listen.

Aired December 13 - 25 on XM 120, Sirius 118
A non-stop broadcast of more than twenty years of vintage Bing Crosby holiday radio specials, hosted exclusively for SIRIUS XM by the Crosby family and features a wide variety of Crosby's beloved music. Special guests include Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Bob Hope among others which airs December 13 at midnight ET through Christmas Day.

* Please indicate how much you like this channel by assigning it a rating. Simply use the thread rating system found at the top of the thread and give it a vote.

 

[semipenguin]

Oh no. Aonther single artist channel...:shock:
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[squigy0]

hahah thanks Aaron! I had a fresh review ready to go and nowhere to put it!

Sounds: All of Bing Crosby's radio XMAS specials

Positives: A piece of history and heritage preserved perfectly. Original XMAS pieces performed by hit musicians and screen actors of the time that don't get any airplay these days

Negatives: The channel jumped around a lot to different years' shows making it difficult to listen to shows within context. Pad data was too long so the exact date of the show was always cut off on the screen

# of HO HO HOs: 4.99 out of 5

Overall: Small issues on an amazing channel! XMAS song's you've never heard before, cute on-stage comedy skits, reports from the Netherlands and some Netherlands Christmas songs, reports from Bing's son with the Army in Austria with some Austrian Christmas songs being sung, even the mic'ed up Crosby kids XMAS gift opening back in the 30s was interesting until it became extremely annoying and I had to turn it off

 

[Wolf]

I didn't catch much of it, but I enjoy quite a bit of Bing Crosby Christmas music.

I give it 3 stars.

 

[DAB]

I really didn't care much for this channel! I was really rather bored with it. I gave it 1 star for terrible!