December 16, 2024 • 9 mins
Christmas is upon us, with festive tunes ringing in stores and even around the home.
Wellington Mornings music man James Irwin has compiled a list of some lesser-known New Zealand Christmas tunes, and even uncovered a long lost Beatles Christmas song - released long before Paul McCartney and John Lennon released their own festive hits.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from news talks at b Eiggs, new releases, and keeping
tabs on local artists. It's music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
People know this is my favorite part of the show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every second Tuesday, James Owen comes in from his studio
to my studio, our studio. JAMESI welcome. It's been another
cracking year of music. Let's go what do you go?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Look, it has been a cracking year of music. And
I was weirdly last night. I was counting up because
I'm a big buyer of physical music. I've brought sixty
two CDs, forty two vinyl records and picked up even
a few cassette tapes. So it's been a good year
for me for music. Gig wise, I haven't seen as
many gigs as I would have liked this year. But
then I did that that slinging my kidney off midyear,
(00:56):
so that took me out of going to so many gigs.
And I've got to say thanks, you know, as from
my point of view, thanks to you, Ethan and our
listeners for all the support I got when I went
through there.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That was those listeners that don't know James Erwin's work
for this organization for numbers and numbers of years. He
puts all the music together, he runs all the music
stuff and adds and stuff. He's an amazing person and we
all love him dearly. He gave his kidney to his nephew.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah, cousin, cousin, Yeah, cousin, and.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
During the year, which was something that we all went through. Yeah,
we all know. We communicated with James the whole time,
so yeah, yeah, we feel like we all went through it,
so we love him.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's done a great job.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I had a lot of nice responses from listeners and
the likes, so thank you to all the people who
sent me nice messages during that time. And I've got
to say it's been a major success for my cousin,
so that's perfect.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
So I was deviating today.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Of course, Christmas songs, they are absolutely the best, except
of Bob Geldoff's involved and most likely Sting, and definitely
if Bono's involved, they're not the best, and quite possibly
Chris Martin of Coldplay or Snoopy's Christmas.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But otherwise Christmas songs are.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Totally the best, and I found a few rippers from
our own fear shows that don't mention it's snowing and
celebrate New Zealand as we know it best. So let's
have a quick listen to a mix of Hielands.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Christmas The King Dennis Marsh I loves, Yeah, I love him.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He features twice. Yeah, this is the kids know this
one sticky beat.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
You know that he's Mark Sticky be the key.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
He's an anti Christmas song by a band. Oh what
are they called to? Kind of remember?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Christ Church?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
All about tuning up home at Christmas with your tattoos?
Is Dennis again?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
That's the absolute classic will have And then of course
I played this last year. I played every year. I
love Marlon Williams. Just gotta love malon New Zealand's answer
to Elvis.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I always think you utiful voice. So yeah, that's a
few New Zealand Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I believe you haven't got my wife and Frankie and there.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Well, I was going to talk about Frankie.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They brought a CD out I know that and years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Come on if I played them last year to and
I was going to say that Frankie and Dennis Marsh
and Brendan Duggan and Sorry and one other great bad
They are playing as the New Zealand Highway Men. They've
just announced a big tour next year, and I reckon
we should be right across that and may you would
know all of it. You probably already had.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I knew that Frankie was doing a better stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah yeah, And obviously Frankie's coming. That used to be
Eddie Low, the Great Eddie Low who passed away. So
frank is coming and that's going to be a killer
gig starting. I know they're playing the Cozy Club out
in Upper Hut in May next year, but they're going
right across the country. I'm hoping they're gonna play a
Wellington gig because you know, me and you will be
in the front road.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Won't definitely going? Yeah, I might be able to get
us free.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, there we go. We might have been to give
away a few, so look out for that.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
But this next one's definitely fraught with danger, as the
fans of this group are a bit like though the
people you see outside Spruce Goose down at the airport
taking photos of all the planes. Definitely, if we get
anything wrong in this next segment where you're going to
be punished not only on the text machine but also
by old mate Ethan, your producer, because there's a huge
Beatles fan. So did the Beatles do a Christmas song?
(04:28):
And it took a bit of hunting around. There's definitely
some bits and pieces they used to release these ridiculous
and they are ridiculous vinyl albums for their fan club.
And in one of them, in nineteen sixty seven, there
is a Christmas song called Christmas Time. It's one of
only a few Beatles songs that is credited to all
four of them. All four of them sing on it,
(04:48):
harmonize on it, and all four of them get the
song credits, not just Lennon and McCartney. So let's have
a listen to this. And there's a couple other mixtures
of the solo guys from the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I quite like it. It's catchy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've never heard it before.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The studio tho Ethan will know it. I think it's awful.
It's on at Spotify.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Rat This is Paul mccartny here and I'd just like
to wish you everything you wish yourselves for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
This is John Lennon saying on behalf of the Beagles
have a very hardy griddles and a good New Year.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
George Hardison speaking, I'd like to take this opportunity of
visioning of anybody Christmas listeners everywhere.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
They obviously did this personally for out.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yet he listened to a start, and I'd just like
to say Merry Christmas and a really happy New Year
to all listeners.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So this is christy okay.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
And so there's John and Yokos, which is the cracking
song Big One, A beauty, beautiful, one of the greats.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
One of the great I don't know if Ethan's shaking
his head at us.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Or not, then we shouldn't be Jesus great. I love
the song.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's a beautiful.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Paul McCartney.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He makes four hundred thousand pounds per year off the
song and routies alone fifteen million pounds and rooties. He's
Ding Dong by old George Harrison. Great video for this one,
and this absolute parnisher by McCartney. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,
(06:21):
the reggae version.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
All right, So there you go.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's that's the Beatles. We've got a little treat for
you if you're a Beatles fan. We've got an Ai
Beatles coming up very shortly. But I went round the
weird and the wonderful, and of course Christmas isn't Christmas
without having this little cracker from William Shatner from Star Trek,
and he probably was on that plastic surgery showed as well.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Let's have it listening to this with your no so brave,
will you guide my schleve tonight a little beauty and
he's got zzy top playing guitar, one of the easy
top chaps. I'm not sure if it's the one who
passed away. All here we going it spruces up in a.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Second Shattner cuts cuts loose. Yeah, that's probably enough of that.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's absolutely that lawyer.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
The lawyer.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What was that lawyer?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I can't remember it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
So if we're going weird and wonderful, we also might
as well chucking weird. Our Yankovic giving it a bash,
singing with all the spirity can muster, as if he
was from a trench in a war zone.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Brown zero, there's music in the air, the fleet ringing
and the carolers singing, while the air raid sirens flair
and Christmas that Brown Zero, the button has bad breast
the Ready.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Just let us know that this is not And as
much as that's weird and wonderful, it's very weird. It's
pop hard because that is Christmas in some places around
our globe like that for some people. And to wind
it all up this, you know, in the year of
chat GBT jobs lost to the tech bros, written programs
(08:13):
by offshore plonkers, songs made by computers, Let's go out
finding out what that Beatles Christmas song maybe would have
sounded like. And this is the legendary band, the AI Beatles.
Thanks having me on this year, Nick and Ethan, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Let's have a listen to these guys.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Christmas that plan my fame Brett's I know I'll be
singing and all day on Christmas time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
It must be Christmas, I reckon. It's a pretty good
ransition as an AI Beatles.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Ai James, here you take the opportunity to say thank
you for all you do for our organization, for our company,
for our listeners, for our people. Appreciate you, love you
like a brother, for you and Mary Jane Hope you
have a really wonderful Christmas. You're an amazing man and
an amazing talent and I love having you on the show.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Mary, Mary, Merry Christmas, and merry Christmas to everyone out there.
Thanks for putting up with me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, it's not putting up with you. We love you,
Love you like a brother.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks It'd be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from news talks at b Eiggs, new releases, and keeping
tabs on local artists. It's music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
People know this is my favorite part of the show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every second Tuesday, James Owen comes in from his studio
to my studio, our studio. JAMESI welcome. It's been another
cracking year of music. Let's go what do you go?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Look, it has been a cracking year of music. And
I was weirdly last night. I was counting up because
I'm a big buyer of physical music. I've brought sixty
two CDs, forty two vinyl records and picked up even
a few cassette tapes. So it's been a good year
for me for music. Gig wise, I haven't seen as
many gigs as I would have liked this year. But
then I did that that slinging my kidney off midyear,
(00:56):
so that took me out of going to so many gigs.
And I've got to say thanks, you know, as from
my point of view, thanks to you, Ethan and our
listeners for all the support I got when I went
through there.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That was those listeners that don't know James Erwin's work
for this organization for numbers and numbers of years. He
puts all the music together, he runs all the music
stuff and adds and stuff. He's an amazing person and we
all love him dearly. He gave his kidney to his nephew.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah, cousin, cousin, Yeah, cousin, and.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
During the year, which was something that we all went through. Yeah,
we all know. We communicated with James the whole time,
so yeah, yeah, we feel like we all went through it,
so we love him.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's done a great job.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I had a lot of nice responses from listeners and
the likes, so thank you to all the people who
sent me nice messages during that time. And I've got
to say it's been a major success for my cousin,
so that's perfect.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
So I was deviating today.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Of course, Christmas songs, they are absolutely the best, except
of Bob Geldoff's involved and most likely Sting, and definitely
if Bono's involved, they're not the best, and quite possibly
Chris Martin of Coldplay or Snoopy's Christmas.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
But otherwise Christmas songs are.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Totally the best, and I found a few rippers from
our own fear shows that don't mention it's snowing and
celebrate New Zealand as we know it best. So let's
have a quick listen to a mix of Hielands.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Christmas The King Dennis Marsh I loves, Yeah, I love him.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
He features twice. Yeah, this is the kids know this
one sticky beat.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
You know that he's Mark Sticky be the key.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
He's an anti Christmas song by a band. Oh what
are they called to? Kind of remember?
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Christ Church?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
All about tuning up home at Christmas with your tattoos?
Is Dennis again?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
That's the absolute classic will have And then of course
I played this last year. I played every year. I
love Marlon Williams. Just gotta love malon New Zealand's answer
to Elvis.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I always think you utiful voice. So yeah, that's a
few New Zealand Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I believe you haven't got my wife and Frankie and there.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Well, I was going to talk about Frankie.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They brought a CD out I know that and years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Come on if I played them last year to and
I was going to say that Frankie and Dennis Marsh
and Brendan Duggan and Sorry and one other great bad
They are playing as the New Zealand Highway Men. They've
just announced a big tour next year, and I reckon
we should be right across that and may you would
know all of it. You probably already had.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I knew that Frankie was doing a better stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah yeah, And obviously Frankie's coming. That used to be
Eddie Low, the Great Eddie Low who passed away. So
frank is coming and that's going to be a killer
gig starting. I know they're playing the Cozy Club out
in Upper Hut in May next year, but they're going
right across the country. I'm hoping they're gonna play a
Wellington gig because you know, me and you will be
in the front road.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Won't definitely going? Yeah, I might be able to get
us free.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, there we go. We might have been to give
away a few, so look out for that.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
But this next one's definitely fraught with danger, as the
fans of this group are a bit like though the
people you see outside Spruce Goose down at the airport
taking photos of all the planes. Definitely, if we get
anything wrong in this next segment where you're going to
be punished not only on the text machine but also
by old mate Ethan, your producer, because there's a huge
Beatles fan. So did the Beatles do a Christmas song?
(04:28):
And it took a bit of hunting around. There's definitely
some bits and pieces they used to release these ridiculous
and they are ridiculous vinyl albums for their fan club.
And in one of them, in nineteen sixty seven, there
is a Christmas song called Christmas Time. It's one of
only a few Beatles songs that is credited to all
four of them. All four of them sing on it,
(04:48):
harmonize on it, and all four of them get the
song credits, not just Lennon and McCartney. So let's have
a listen to this. And there's a couple other mixtures
of the solo guys from the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I quite like it. It's catchy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I've never heard it before.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
The studio tho Ethan will know it. I think it's awful.
It's on at Spotify.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Rat This is Paul mccartny here and I'd just like
to wish you everything you wish yourselves for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
This is John Lennon saying on behalf of the Beagles
have a very hardy griddles and a good New Year.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
George Hardison speaking, I'd like to take this opportunity of
visioning of anybody Christmas listeners everywhere.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
They obviously did this personally for out.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yet he listened to a start, and I'd just like
to say Merry Christmas and a really happy New Year
to all listeners.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So this is christy okay.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
And so there's John and Yokos, which is the cracking
song Big One, A beauty, beautiful, one of the greats.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
One of the great I don't know if Ethan's shaking
his head at us.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Or not, then we shouldn't be Jesus great. I love
the song.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's a beautiful.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Paul McCartney.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He makes four hundred thousand pounds per year off the
song and routies alone fifteen million pounds and rooties. He's
Ding Dong by old George Harrison. Great video for this one,
and this absolute parnisher by McCartney. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,
(06:21):
the reggae version.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
All right, So there you go.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's that's the Beatles. We've got a little treat for
you if you're a Beatles fan. We've got an Ai
Beatles coming up very shortly. But I went round the
weird and the wonderful, and of course Christmas isn't Christmas
without having this little cracker from William Shatner from Star Trek,
and he probably was on that plastic surgery showed as well.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Let's have it listening to this with your no so brave,
will you guide my schleve tonight a little beauty and
he's got zzy top playing guitar, one of the easy
top chaps. I'm not sure if it's the one who
passed away. All here we going it spruces up in a.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Second Shattner cuts cuts loose. Yeah, that's probably enough of that.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's absolutely that lawyer.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
The lawyer.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What was that lawyer?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I can't remember it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
So if we're going weird and wonderful, we also might
as well chucking weird. Our Yankovic giving it a bash,
singing with all the spirity can muster, as if he
was from a trench in a war zone.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Brown zero, there's music in the air, the fleet ringing
and the carolers singing, while the air raid sirens flair
and Christmas that Brown Zero, the button has bad breast
the Ready.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Just let us know that this is not And as
much as that's weird and wonderful, it's very weird. It's
pop hard because that is Christmas in some places around
our globe like that for some people. And to wind
it all up this, you know, in the year of
chat GBT jobs lost to the tech bros, written programs
(08:13):
by offshore plonkers, songs made by computers, Let's go out
finding out what that Beatles Christmas song maybe would have
sounded like. And this is the legendary band, the AI Beatles.
Thanks having me on this year, Nick and Ethan, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Let's have a listen to these guys.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Christmas that plan my fame Brett's I know I'll be
singing and all day on Christmas time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
It must be Christmas, I reckon. It's a pretty good
ransition as an AI Beatles.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Ai James, here you take the opportunity to say thank
you for all you do for our organization, for our company,
for our listeners, for our people. Appreciate you, love you
like a brother, for you and Mary Jane Hope you
have a really wonderful Christmas. You're an amazing man and
an amazing talent and I love having you on the show.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Mary, Mary, Merry Christmas, and merry Christmas to everyone out there.
Thanks for putting up with me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, it's not putting up with you. We love you,
Love you like a brother.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks It'd be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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