Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.

And I'm Lena Morgan.

And this is Song versus Song, a very special yearly Christmas episode.

And this year, we're going to get a little lonely.

We are doing Elvis's Blue Christmas versus Christmas parentheses baby please come home by Darlene Love.

The two greatest sad Christmas songs of all time, except for the many others you just immediately thought of.

I know how you work, listeners.

I know what your brain does.

Are you ready for this,

Lena? Are you ready to be sad on Christmas? Well, it's not Christmas. And I'm always ready to be sad. Well, we're not quite so lonely for this episode, because we have a guest in the in the in the in the studio would you please

introduce us to the introduce yourself to the listeners please yeah I am uh Chris Dallariva I was

brought on here to try to make the show a little bit less lonely this December so I hope hope I

can do that uh and you you are here because you are promoting your book.

I am. I just put out a book last month called Uncharted Territory, what numbers tell us about the

biggest hit songs in ourselves. And my typical schick online is I write about music, usually with

data. There's just a couple charts involved. But the book, I spent a couple years listening

to every Billboard Hot 100 number one hit song in history. And as I went along, I built this

data set about it. And I wrote this history where I picked apart the trends and tropes that I saw

over the years, over the last 65 years since the Hot 100 launched. And it's been out for a month.

It seems like people are enjoying it. And I think some people here will like it too. So,

thanks for having me. Well, as soon as I get my copy, which I understand, there has been some

issues with what I look. I'm super looking forward to reading it.

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