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Christmas Rapping

Let Craig Charles provide your ultimate Saturday night party playlist as he spins his way through seven decades of the finest funk and soul tunes for your listening pleasure.

Let Craig Charles provide your ultimate Saturday night party playlist as he spins his way through seven decades of the finest funk and soul tunes for your listening pleasure. If it feels like funk and sounds like soul it'll be The Craig Charles House Party.

There's a Cover From Another Brother or indeed Mother and You Heard It Here First, a cracking cover version and a rarely-heard original back-to-back that'll have you thinking 'I didn't know they did that first!' Tonight we hear the original version of a song that was oh-so-nearly a Christmas number one, and the story behind Santa's Brand New Bag.

There's a long long long, let's go all the way, musical marathon of a song in our Version Excursion after 11pm, and tonight it's from the legend that is Tom Moulton.

And we'll take the party out of the studio and onto the street when we go to Hip-Hop Heaven at half-eleven! There's a Christmas cracker from Kurtis Blow, and we get Naughty, By Nature.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 Dec 2017 00:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Shirley Ellis

    The Clapping Song

    • Connoisseur.

  • Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

    Express Yourself

    • WSM.

  • Lack of Afro

    Back In Business (feat. Wax & Herbal T)

    • LOA Records.

  • Sister Sledge

    Lost In Music (Dimitri From Paris remix)

    • Lost In Music (Dimitri From Paris Remix).
    • GLITTERBOX.
    • 1.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Winter Wonderland

    • WEA.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Jingle Bells

    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • Freda Payne

    Band Of Gold

    • Global Television.

  • Parliament

    Dr. Funkenstein

    • Casablanca.

  • Junior Murvin

    Police And Thieves

    • Trojan.

  • The Traffic

    White Lines

    • Choi Records.

  • Isley Jasper Isley

    Caravan Of Love

    • Pickwick.

  • Gary Walker

    Santa's Got A Brand New Bag

    • Rhino.

  • The Toys

    A Lover's Concerto

    • Best From Bell.
    • Bell.

  • Jimmy Jules and the Nuclear Soul System

    Xmas Done Got Funky (feat. Jackie Spencer)

    • Jim Gem.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Jimmy James

    A man like me

  • Ike Turner & Tina Turner

    Merry Christmas Baby

    • The Best Of Cool Yule (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Donna Summer

    I Feel Love

    • Mercury.

  • Curtis Harding

    Need Your Love

    • ANTI - Records.

  • Quincy Jones

    Soul Bossa Nova

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Prince

    Cream

    • Warner Bros.

  • Smerins Anti-Social Club

    Walking In The Air

    • Self-Released.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Who In The Funk Do You Think You Are?

    • Rhino.

  • Kurtis Blow

    Christmas Rappin'

    • Mercury.

  • Naughty by Nature

    O.P.P.

    • Tommy Boy Records.

  • The Granville Williams Orchestra

    Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town

    • Trojan.

  • Charles Bradley

    Change For The World

    • Daptone Records.

  • TJM

    Small Circle Of Friends

    • Cherry Red.

  • Mario Biondi And The High Five Quintet

    This Is What You Are

    • Joey And Norman Jay MBE Present Good Times 5 CD1.
    • 13.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 23 Dec 2017 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Fri 29 Dec 2017 00:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2