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WVOX FM98, it's your holiday, Mixmaster DJ Sean, holiday Ramcom here with my co-host.

You know I'm from Switched On Pop, it's a podcast, it's a book.

WVOX is very own DJ, cheerly, harding cheerly.

How is it?

Oh, it's great.

It is snowing, it is cheery.

Perfect, because I want to take us all the way back cheerly, way back to Christmas 1994

for a pop hit.

It's actually climbing the charts right now in 2019.

Now I don't know about you cheerly, but 94 I was playing Super Mario Kart for Super Nintendo,

dreaming of a white Christmas up in Toronto, what were you up to?

I was just a wee little boy.

However, Ryan Carey was at the height of her career, and she and her team were a little

worried about putting out a Christmas song because you know when you're at the height of

your career you don't usually put out the Christmas single.

That's usually digging for how do I pander to an audience and get another hit, and yet

she did it, and it became one of the most important holiday songs of all time, something

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