Show 151
It's Christmas Down Under
Santa Swapped His Sleigh For a Surfboard - a true-blue number by Craig Stewart.
I Hope You Get Laid For Christmas - Damien Cowell's Disco Machine is the album, which came out in 2015, this track featuring Liz Stringer. Cowell is best known as a member of the band TISM.
Aussie Jingle Bells/He's the Aussie Santa - Aussie Christmas with Bucko and Champs. Colin Buchanan and Greg Champion did these in 1995.
Spend Christmas Day With Me - Darren Hanlon, from his 2009 album Pointing Ray Guns at Pagans.
Aussie Christmas Song - Robin Bate, one of those happy items that turn up on YouTube.
Detour: Christmas is time for a beach holiday for many Australians
Somewhere Out On the Road Tonight - Ian W. Beer, from his 2012 album Heart & Mind.
My Father Told Me - Tamam Shud, it was on their EP titled Bali Waters in 1970 and was a single in 1972. The song was recorded to be part of a surf-movie soundtrack, Morning of the Earth. This from an extended CD version of their best-known album Evolution, first released in 1968 or 69 (reports vary). Combining travel with summer.
Heavy Moss - Summa, a 2023 single; summa is how an Australian pronounces summer.
Summertime - Chris Wilson doing the George Gershwin classic, written for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Chris did it on his 1992 debut album, Landlocked. This version from the collection Landlocked Faithless & Free, a 2022 release.
Back to the Christmas spirit
Little Drummer Boy - Hoodoo Gurus, from 2005, a reissue of their 1991 album Kinky. The song has been going around in various versions since 1941.
White Wine In the Sun - Tim Minchin. He released it on the album Ready For This? Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in 2008. This version was recorded in concert in 2009.
How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly, a song that has become an Australian holiday season classic. He first recorded it in 1998 for his album Words And Music. This version is from his collection The A-Z Recordings, taken from concert performances from 2004 to 2010. In November 2025 Kelly released a sequel to the song, Rita Wrote A Letter, on his latest album titled Seventy. It isn't a Christmas song.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
