Chestnut Roasters, Part 2

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of this holiday episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy dives deep into radio, streaming and Billboard chart data of some your favorite holiday hitmakers to compare their long legacies to the majority-merry ways they are consumed today. And none has been more condensed by Christmas than another artist who was once famous enough to go by her first name: Brenda. A ’60s chart dominator and double–Hall of Famer, Brenda Lee is now mostly known for that tune about Christmas tree rockin’. How did the legendary “Little Miss Dynamite” become Santa’s little helper? And will she ever pass Mariah and go back to No. 1? Podcast production by Asha Saluja. Sign up for Slate Plus now to get episodes in one installment as soon as they're out. You'll also get The Bridge, our trivia show and bonus deep dive. Click here for more info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The monopoly game is back at McDonald's, and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because
0:04.6	with double peel, you can peel on pack. Then peel again on the McDonald's app, to when
0:08.8	prizes like, brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HBO and gaming laptops,
0:14.4	to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes.
0:19.3	18 plus UK only selected items, subjects and serving times and availability, and 17th
0:26.0	October. Game play and prize claims may require McDonald's app, seemingly rules.co.uk.
0:30.0	The best thing I got on D-POP. That's a good question. This really nice
0:33.5	80s Adidas jumper. A quarter is which I'm wearing. This pink mini skirt. This
0:38.4	Jessica Toa hoodie. Probably my uniform choke boots. This pair of jeans, I wear them all
0:42.3	the time. The main one, I'm quite into the moment, is extreme layering. Ranged.
0:46.6	White's okay. Relaxed grandpa. Part-time punk, part-time polypocket. I think
0:51.2	co-cat is the word. Baggy, relaxed and a bit out there.
1:00.1	This podcast contains seasonal wham content. Whamageddon player's discretion is advised.
1:07.2	It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go.
1:17.5	Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine,
1:23.3	about the hits from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Mulanfee, chart analyst, pop critic,
1:28.7	and writer of Slate's Why is the Song No. 1 series on our last episode.
1:34.3	We talked about how perennial Christmas hits, especially in the streaming era,
1:40.0	are changing our perceptions of certain holiday hitmakers, and overshadowing their other
1:46.0	bigger chart hits from yesterday. Whether these acts stumbled into a Christmas hit,
1:51.6	like Jean Autry or Jose Feliciano, or eagerly embraced their new jolly persona,
1:58.2	like Darlene Love. These chestnut roasters, as I call them, are potent every December
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