Wow babbling my bawbaw baw bum bum From W bez Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deereg goddess and I'm Greg

Cox. The holiday season's upon us and we're

getting ready the only way we know how. With a playlist of Christmas music you won't

hear anywhere else.

I know there's a stand of loss I saw him by the tree.

Gather around the yule Log with Christmas music collector Andy

Surzan for our annual holiday spectacular. That's all coming up on sound opinions. The This is sound opinions and it's time now for our annual holiday spectacular with Andy

Surzan. He runs the concert division at Jam Productions.

One of the few remaining independent concert promoters in America,

that's his day job.

But his passion, Greg, as we say every year when we introduce Andy is collecting holiday obscura.

It's 30 years running unbelievable up the most obscure the most collectible

Christmas music in the world being brought to us by Andy Serzan so welcome Andy

thanks for having me back again you guys this is your 30th year your your mix this year is

Rudolph pouts ellipsees and pouts again it's sort of a best of but but for folks

who don't know how did you get started going down this never-ending rabbit hole?

Well for starters I literally am of a certain age that I never stopped buying vinyl. So my initial introduction to music was on that format and

when everybody else was dumping it I chose not to participate and instead I started buying it at 10 cents on the dollar and

it's dovetailed into like an off-site temperature-controlled storage locker that where it all lives and in an

undisclosed location.

Absolutely.

And you know, and along the way, you know, I started finding different genres and things that I didn't even know I wanted to collect and one of them was,

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