QLS Bonus: Questlove's Favorite Christmas Songs
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus mini episode of The Questlove Show, Ahmir takes listeners through over a dozen of his favorite Christmas songs. From personal holiday memories to beloved classics from legendary artists and music innovators—plus a few modern favorites—it’s a festive deep dive into seasonal sounds.
Happy holidays from Ahmir and the team at The Questlove Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | The Questlove show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:13.4 | What's up, y'all? |
| 0:14.5 | This is Questlove, Questlove show. |
| 0:16.6 | It's the holidays. |
| 0:18.1 | And if you know me, I love curating music. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm the guy that will, you know, sit for five hours and do deep dives and looking for the perfect song to capture the mood. |
| 0:32.4 | Even though I've taken a year off from CQLS wasn't the only thing that I needed time away from. |
| 0:38.8 | I once had the dawning task of curating 400 playlists a month for people, two times over, actually. |
| 0:48.5 | You know, I would do slow songs and fast songs. |
| 0:50.5 | So there are a bunch of people sort of tugging on my coattails for Christmas music |
| 0:57.5 | recommendation. So I guess I'll share some of my favorite ones with you. Of course, you know what? |
| 1:04.3 | The all-time classic Christmas time is here, Vince Goraldi and Charlie Brown. I recently found out |
| 1:10.6 | how unsupportive the CBS |
| 1:14.0 | network was to the Charlie Brown Christmas special, which I believe that special was now 60 years old. |
| 1:22.4 | Actually, I heard that because they rejected it so late, they actually never wanted to air it at all. |
| 1:33.3 | It was jarring for them to see a Christmas special, you know, with a manically depressive |
| 1:40.3 | kid as the lead. |
| 1:47.9 | And even the fact that they said that, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | jazz music is going to turn off their viewers. |
| 1:52.8 | Like, everything is wrong about this. |
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