Sunday, December 17, 2017
A segue fit for Christmas Eve
Listen to the shimmering, quivering outro of the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles medley, "Deck The Halls/Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella." At the nanosecond it ends, launch into the comparable shimmering, quivering intro of Freiheit's "Keeping The Dream Alive." You'll have a smooth transition from two Christmas standards into a tune whose lyrics fit Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve equally well. I've had this idea for a segue since the mid '90s, but I've never heard anyone else play these two songs together. If you're free to program your own music at a noncommercial station this Christmas, however, this is a transition worth making.