the djbc happy hour

Tonight on the show, we say goodbye to 2023. We preview the New Year's Six and College Football Playoff (will this be the year that Michigan does it?). And more. And who made Santa's Naughty and Nice List?

NPR Top Stories of 2023: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1216411821/top-stories-2023

New Year's Traditions (Good Housekeeping): https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/g25360543/new-year-tradi...
New Year's Superstitions (Country Living): https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/g29538911/new-years-superstit...
New Year's Traditions Around the World: https://worldstrides.com/blog/2016/12/9-new-years-traditions-cultures-ar...

Holiday Music from the 2000s

Song List:
“Opera of the Bells” (Destiny’s Child, 2001)
“Toyland” (Barry Manilow, 2007)
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Martina McBride & Dean Martin, 2007)
“Heatmiser” (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 2004)
“Jingle Bells” (Diana Krall with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, 2005)
“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (Michael Buble, 2003)
“Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?” (Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert, 2007)
“The Polar Express” (featuring Tom Hanks, 2004)
“The Spirit of the Season” (Alan Silvestri, 2004)
“Believe” (Josh Groban, 2004)
“Where Are You Christmas?” (Faith Hill, 2000)
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” (Carrie Underwood, 2007)
“The Happy Elf” (Harry Connick Jr., 2003)
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Zooey Deschanel & Leon Redbone, 2003)
“Love Is All Around” (The Troggs, excerpt)
“Christmas Is All Around” (Billy Mack, 2003)

Segments:
Popular Christmas Toys from the 2000s
Popular Christmas TV from the 2000s

The Happy Elf became a TV Special and Stage Musical.
The Polar Express is based off the 1985 Children’s Book by Chris Van Allsburg.

Tonight on the Show, Thanksgiving and another Top 3 match between # 2 Ohio State and # 3 Michigan, both 11-0 for the second straight year.

Stores Open and Closed on Thanksgiving Day: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/whats-open-and-closed-in-...

Tonight, we defend our Wolverines, and kick off the Holiday Season.

2023 Franklin County Election Results: https://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/elections

The 8th Annual Musical Day of the Dead pays tribute to artists and musicians lost in the past year.

PLAYLIST
HOUR 1

“Fame” - Irene Cara
“Hold Me” - Fleetwood Mac
“Deep Purple” (1963) - Nino Tempo and April Stevens
“Dream Weaver” - Gary Wright
"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Along Comes Mary" - The Association
“Wives & Lovers Suite” - Burt Bacharach
"Mr. Tambourine Man" - The Byrds
“Take It To The Limit” - The Eagles (written by Randy Meisner)
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" - Tony Bennett
“Who Put The Bomp” - Barry Mann (co-written by Cynthia Weil)
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Jamaica Farewell” - Harry Belafonte
"You Make Loving Fun" - Fleetwood Mac
Clip: “Cafe Regio” - Isaac Hayes (RIP Richard Roundtree)

HOUR 2

Clip: “Flashdance…What A Feeling” - Irene Cara
“Everywhere” - Fleetwood Mac
“All-Star” - Smash Mouth
“Private Dancer” - Tina Turner
“A Beautiful Morning” - The Rascals
“The Girl from Ipanema” - Astrud Gilberto with Stan Getz
Clips, including “It Don’t Mean A Thing” & “Sing, You Sinners” - Arthur Duncan
“Tie A Yellow Ribbon” - Clay Hart
“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” - The Band
“My Cup Runneth Over” - Ed Ames
“People in Your Neighborhood” clip - Bob McGrath with Barbara Walters
“Margaritaville” - Jimmy Buffett
“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
“40 Hour Week” - Alabama
“Save the Last Dance” - The Drifters
“Is That All There Is” - Tony Bennett
Clip - “We’ll Be Together Again” - Tony Bennett with Bill Evans
“The Last Farewell” - Roger Whittaker