Mixtape Monday: Christmas 1987

Welcome to the first of two very special Mixtape Mondays where HERC shares his early attempts at Annual Christmas Mixes.  Today's mix is his first attempt, Christmas 1987.

Christmas 1987 was HERC's first Christmas with his wife and three month old daughter.  They celebrated that first Christmas with two housemates, his sister-in-law and her best friend.  MRS. HERC approved a $50 Christmas music budget.  HERC bought two Christmas CDs that had just been released that year: A Very Special Christmas and Rhino's release of Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift For You. 

Together, those two albums make up the bulk of that first Christmas Mixtape.  The rest of the selections were sourced from vinyl, either 45s (Eagles), 12"s (Band Aid) or albums (everything else).  HERC's third Christmas music purchase that year was a used copy of The Time-Life Treasury Of Christmas double disc set from PDQ.  Don't know why none of the songs from it were included; both CDs received lots of play that year and for years to come.

		SIDE A		45:27
1963		Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	The Crystals	03:26
1987		Winter Wonderland	Eurythmics	03:36
1963		White Christmas	Darlene Love	02:55
1978		Please Come Home For Christmas	Eagles	02:57
1981		Little Drummer Boy	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	04:14
1987		Run Rudolph Run	Bryan Adams	02:43
1987		Do You Hear What I Hear	Whitney Houston	03:33
1987		Gabriel's Message	Sting	02:14
1983		2000 Miles	Pretenders	03:40
1986		Christmas At Ground Zero	"Weird" Al Yankovic	03:08
1987		Merry Christmas Baby	Bruce Springsteen	04:53
1987		Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	U2	02:21
1948		All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)	Spike Jones	02:22
1987		Coventry Carol	Alison Moyet	03:25
		SIDE B		41:35
1963		Frosty The Snowman	The Ronettes	02:19
1987		Santa Baby	Madonna	02:35
1983		Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Lou Ann Barton	02:04
1977		Father Christmas	The Kinks	03:45
1963		Sleigh Ride	The Ronettes	03:04
1987		I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Cluas	John Cougar Mellencamp	02:39
1963		Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer	The Crystals	02:30
1987		Let The Jingle Bells Rock	Sweet Tee	03:57
1984		Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer	Elmo & Patsy	03:26
1963		Here Comes Santa Claus	Bob. B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans	02:06
1958		The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunks	02:17
1984		Do They Know It's Christmas? [remix]	Band Aid	06:16
1987		Silent Night	Stevie Nicks with Robbie Nevil	04:37

HERC doesn't remember making any copies of Christmas 1987 other than a copy for MRS. HERC to listen to in her car, a 1976 Camaro with a deluxe Alpine deck.  HERC kept a copy in the deck of his '64 Bug as well.  While researching this post, HERC noticed that the j-card used was a reused one.  Back in the early years of his marriage and indeed the two years before he was married, times were tough and he reused a lot of his tapes.  What's interesting about this particular one is it is about as far from Christmas as one could get.  See for yourself.

Dio!