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I'm Jesse Thorn.

So I can basically guarantee you that you will not get through this holiday season without

hearing Ronnie Spector's Christmas music.

I mean, Frosty the Snowman, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, come on.

Mommy loved Christmas as a little girl, but she wasn't going on sleigh rise through

the snow.

She was a city kid.

I remember being in school and in the books, they always had Santa with the black, you

know, the black boots on coming down the chimney.

So I asked my father, I said, we don't have a chimney.

Where Santa, how is he going to get here?

I was so upset and frustrated and he said Ronnie, Santa is coming down the fire escape.

I was so happy Jesse, I ran to my room.

I put the covers over my head and I fell fast asleep and that's the true story.

It's Bullseye.

Coming up my interview with the girl group superstar Ronnie Spector.

As the lead singer of the Ronets, she recorded some of the most iconic Christmas music ever

made.

She'll tell us some of her favorite holiday memories.

We'll also talk about her career and about some of the gentlemembers she flirted with, which

was in her prime.

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