Questlove's Christmas Playlist / Best Films Of 2022
Fresh Air
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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You can find Questlove's Spotify playlist here: https://spoti.fi/3WeZhfd
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| 0:00.0 | From WHY Wine Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Briger in Frateri Gross. |
| 0:05.7 | Today, a Questlove Christmas. Questlove has made us a playlist of some of his favorite and some unusual Christmas recordings. |
| 0:13.5 | He'll play them and tell us why he chose them. Questlove is co-founder of the Hip Hop band The Roots, |
| 0:19.0 | which is among other things the house band for the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon. |
| 0:23.0 | He won an Oscar this year for his documentary Summer of Soul. |
| 0:27.0 | It's about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival with performances from Stevie Wonder, |
| 0:32.0 | Slime the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight in the Pips and Mahalia Jackson. |
| 0:37.0 | He's written books about music, including one that's a history of Soul Train, |
| 0:41.0 | and he's famous as a DJ. |
| 0:43.0 | And Justin Chang will share his list of the best movies of the year. |
| 0:47.0 | Christmas with Questlove coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Briger in Frateri Gross. |
| 1:04.0 | Terry has today's interview, so I'll let her introduce it. |
| 1:07.0 | This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. This is a moment everyone on our show has been looking forward to. |
| 1:13.0 | It's a Questlove Christmas. A mere Questlove Thompson has returned to our show. |
| 1:18.0 | This time with some Christmas songs to play for us. |
| 1:21.0 | Kind of like a Questlove Christmas mixtape, the annotated version. |
| 1:26.0 | It's an honor to have him choose recordings for us. |
| 1:28.0 | In addition to his many credits, Questlove is perhaps the most famous, popular, and in-demand DJ. |
| 1:34.0 | He even DJed a party for Obama. |
| 1:37.0 | This year, Questlove won an Oscar for his documentary Summer of Soul, |
| 1:41.0 | in which he featured film performances from the Overlook 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, |
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