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On the Saturday December 23, 2023 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we have look at some of the greatest Christmas songs of all time. \n\nFirst we meet Moe Berg, one forth of the Trans-Canada Highwaymen, a new band that consists of four of this country\u2019s best rock singer-songwriters, Sloan\u2019s Chris Murphy, Odds\u2019 Craig Nothey and former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page. \n\nThe album, \u201cExplosive Hits Vol. 1,\u201d is covers of Canadian AM rock radio hits from the 1960s and 70\u2019s and it\u2019s super fun. Moe Berg and I talk about the new album, and then get into the spirit of the season as Moe talks about a Christmas song he wrote with the Pursuit of Happiness and a tune he loves so much, he has a plaque with the lyrics.\n\n\u201cFurious Devotion\u201d author Richard Balls joins me to talk about \u201cFairytale of New York,\u201d a song that is an Irish folk-style ballad and was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer Shane MacGowan and Kristy MacColl as bickering former lovers on Christmas Eve. A song about their youthful hopes crushed by alcohol and drug addiction doesn\u2019t sound like a Christmas cracker, but in the UK it was the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century and re-enters the music charts every December.\n\nWe\u2019ll also get to know Larry Weinstein, director of the documentary \u201cDreaming of a Jewish Christmas,\u201d a musical documentary about the amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas, and we\u2019ll learn how the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time.\n\nFinally we wrap with Brent Butt, the star, writer and/or producer of TV shows such as \u201cCorner Gas,\u201d \u201cHiccups\u201d and \u201cCorner Gas Animated,\u201d and the author of the best-selling thriller \u201cHuge,\u201d and home designer, television host and producer, best-selling author, sought-after public speaker, and host of her own special Tuscan getaways Debbie Travis on their favorite Christmas songs and stories.