December 23  of 2020 was, of course, Festivus -- but it was also the last Wednesday before Christmas. Similar to other holiday-adjacent sets, I tried to avoid having wall-to-wall holiday music (much of which is somewhere between smarmy, superfluous, and execrable), so there's about an hour and ten minutes during the main three-hour block that isn't holiday-themed. Obviously, the flip side of that is a decent helping of Christmas music (and a few Hanukkah tunes). The last number before the postgame stuff is my favorite Christmas song and the best Christmas song outside of a hymnal. (Do not @ me because I'm absolutely right.) There's also a Kwanzaa song I stumbled onto; I wouldn't necessarily recommend dancing to it, but was too good not to share during the main block.

0:00:00 Pregame show

0:22:30   Main event (new school hour)

1:21:50 Old school power double-hour

3:24:25 Extra-Christmasy (but reduced smarm) postgame show

Some notable birthdays from Christmas/Festivus week of 2020 (everybody is represented in some way across the playlist):

12/21 -- Betty Wright, Hank Crawford, Carl Wilson (Beach Boys), Emily Elbert

12/22 -- Robin & Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees), Dick Parry

12/23 -- Esther Phillips, Eugene Record (Chi-Lites)

12/24 -- Ray Bryant

12/25 -- Cab Calloway, Merry Clayton, O'Kelly Isley (Brothers), Bob James (Fourplay), Shane MacGowan (Pogues), Jesus of Nazareth (*observed)

12/26 -- Abdul "Duke" Fakir (Four Tops), Monty Budwig, James Mercer (Shins)