VOLUME 1 FROM THE MIXTAPE MUSEUM
On this, the 26th year of my annual not-your-average Christmas music compilation, I though I'd do something a bit different, and reach back into the archives to bring you the rarest of the mixtapes!
This is the mix that started it all - well, most of the mix, anyway. Back in 1990 as a poor small-market radio jock, I made a Christmas-music mixtape as a present for family and just a few friends, not ever thinking that making an annual not-your-average Christmas music mix would ever become a "thing." Only five cassettes were ever made that first time out. The master is long gone (I think I made it on a reel!), and no one seems to have an original cassette - not even me! However, I did somehow have a partial dub, and, now, so do you! These tracks were all taken from records available at (but not playing on)the radio station in Lowell, where I was working at the time. Yes, I relied heavily on Bob Rivers cuts and tracks from the Winter Warnerland promo-only lp, but my favorites will always be Sherwin Linton's "Santa Got A DWI" and "Woodolph The Petrified Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Bill and Shakey. The real rarities are the Culturcide 45 (both sides contained here) and Eugene Viscione's "Hubert the Fat Elf."
