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In the Carganilla Online Variety Entertainment Podcast, host Paul Carganilla [joined by his family and friends] offer a wide variety of entertainment offerings, including: music, poetry, storytelling, special guest interviews, dramatic readings, thought-provoking conversations, inspiration, and more!
Along with highlighting the work of established creators, this podcast celebrates the power of creativity, imagination, and inspiration. More than just an entertainment podcast, the COVE Podcast seeks to inspire its audience through performances and introspection from a community of like-minded individuals driven by the belief that dreams can become reality. Together, we cultivate a positive and supportive podcast community that entertains and empowers listeners to take bold steps toward their creative, professional, and personal life goals.
COVEpod | Carganilla Online Variety Entertainment Podcast | Storytelling, Interviews, Poetry, Music, Arts & Inspiration
Holiday Music Special - Season One | COVE Podcast 25
Join us by the fireside for a heartwarming episode brimming with festive melodies and delightful guests. We are celebrating the Season with our inaugural COVE Podcast Holiday Music Special! Several guests from Season One perform their favorite Christmas classics & originals. Put on your favorite holiday sweater, grab a cup of hot cocoa, and revel in the magic of Christmas on this cozy episode of COVE Podcast.
EPISODE VIDEOS: www.covetube.com
COVE DIRECTORY: https://linktr.ee/covepod
COVE PATREON: www.patreon/covepodcast
CONTACT: covepod@gmail.com
PERFORMERS (& INSTAGRAM HANDLES):
NOAH CARGANILLA @NOAHCARGANILLA
NICOLE PIERCE @THEREAL.NVP
MIKE PIERCE @THEPIERCETEAM
AMANDA BENJAMIN @AMANDAONDEMANDA
DAVID BENJAMIN
EVERLY CARGANILLA @EVERLYCARGANILLA
FAULTLINES @OFFICIALFAULTLINES
WENDY WALKER @DJWENDYWALKER
STEFAN BENZ @STEFANBENZOFFICIAL
JAMIE CARGANILLA @JAMIE.CARGANILLA
CRAIG JACKMAN @CRAIGAJACKMAN
FEATURED MUSIC:
"HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS" [ JOHNNY MARKS ]
"JINGLE BELLS" [ JAMES LORD PIERPONT ]
"THE CHRISTMAS SONG" [ ROBERT WELLS & MEL TORMÉ ]
"BLUE CHRISTMAS" [ BILLY HAYES & JAMES W JOHNSON ]
"RUN, RUDOLPH, RUN" [ CHUCK BERRY ]
"O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM" [ ARR. CHARLES LINDBERGH ]
"RIBBONS & BOWS" [ KASEY MUSGRAVES ]
"SNOWFALL" [ FAULTLINES | www.faultlinesofficial.com ]
"I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS" [ KIM GANNON & WALTER KENT ]
"YOU BELONG TO ME" [ PRICE, KING, & STEWART ]
"HOLIDAY SEASON" [ STATION LITTLE & STEFAN BENZ ]
"RIVER" [ JONI MITCHELL ]
"MERRY CHRISTMAS, DARLING" [ THE CARPENTERS ]
POETRY: “A Visit From St. Nicholas" [ Clement Clarke Moore ]
VOICE-OVER INTRODUCTION: Malcolm McDowell [ Actor: "A Clockwork Orange" ]
SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM: Craig Jackman, Emily Thatcher, Christina Marie Bielen, Dary Mills, Amanda Benjamin
PATREON CURATORS: Jamie Carganilla, Emily Thatcher, The Faeryns, Charity Swanson, Krista Faith King, Kelsey B Gibson, Angelica Bollschweiler, Anna Giannavola, Gina Dobbs, Merrill Mielke, Susan Kuhn, Josefa Snider
INTRO MUSIC: “Silent Night” [ AVES ]
CREDITS MUSIC: “Fat Banana” [ KICKTRACKS ]
HOST, CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, EDITOR: Paul Carganilla
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Carganella Online Variety Entertainment podcast. Here's your host, Paul Carganella.
Speaker 2:Have a holly jolly Christmas. It's the best time of the year. I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer, have a holly jolly Christmas. And when you walk down the street, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet. Oh, the mistletoe, it's hung where you can see Somebody waits for you. Kiss her once for me. Have a holly jolly Christmas. And, in case you didn't hear, oh by golly, have a holly jolly Christmas this year. Hello and welcome to Cove Podcast. This is a show in which we aim to entertain and inspire our podcast listeners and YouTube viewers. There are a variety of different entertainment offerings, including music, poetry, special guest interviews, dramatic readings and so much more. This week, we're celebrating some holiday music, so thank you so much for being here. Oh, the mistletoe, it's hung where you can see Somebody waits for you. Kiss her once for me. Have a holly jolly Christmas. And in case you didn't hear, oh by golly, have a holly jolly Christmas this year.
Speaker 2:Oh, so much fun is on the dance card today it is. We're just about two weeks from Christmas, a little bit like 13 days away. Thank you for tuning in every Tuesday to the Carganella Online Friday Entertainment Podcast. This is the very first year. This is our first season and so it's the first year we're here celebrating the holiday season together.
Speaker 2:For this very, very special episode, we've invited back many performers. We invited back all of the musical performers from this first season so far and several of them said yes and came and joined us or submitted songs for this episode, and I'm so excited to share their holiday music with you right here in the Cove. I'm going to jump in right away to our first song. I got to sit down with my son, noah, who you all met in episode 5, when I did an episode with Noah and Everly my children, and he wanted to sing. This year he wanted to do jingle bells. You need a little bit of accompaniment, so I played guitar and I did the verses, but the rest is all him. Ladies and gentlemen, here is Noah Carganilla, at 5 Years Old, performing Jingle Bells, dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh. O'er the fields we go laughing all the way Bells on Bob-Tales ring, making spirits bright. What fun it is to ride and sing a slaying song tonight, jingle bells, jingle, bells jingling all the way.
Speaker 4:What fun it is to ride in one horse, open sleigh.
Speaker 2:A day or two ago I thought I'd take a ride Soon. Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side. The horse was lean and lank. Misfortune seemed his lot. We ran into a drifted bank and there we got upside Jingle bells jingle bells jingling all the way.
Speaker 4:What fun it is to ride in one horse. Open sleigh. Hey, jingle bells, jingle bells jingling all the way. What fun it is to ride in one horse open sleigh.
Speaker 2:A day or two ago this story I must tell I went out for the snow and on my back I fell. A gent was riding by in a one horse open sleigh. He laughed at me as I lay there and quickly drove away.
Speaker 4:Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells jingling all the way. What fun it is to ride in one horse, open sleigh. Hey, jingle bells, jingle bells jingling all the way, what fun it is to ride in one horse open sleigh.
Speaker 2:Now, anytime we're nearing the end of the year, it's always fun to look back and reflect on where we've been and as we go into the final stretch here of season one we're about two-thirds of the way through it's fun to bounce back and revisit with friends we've made along the way, we've met along the way, and celebrate some holiday music with them. Now, back in episode six, we got to meet Mike and Nicole Pierce, two very dear friends of mine, and they joined us again for episodes nine and 14 as well. So they've been on the podcast a couple of times and they'll be joining us with some music tonight. First we'll hear from Nicole, and here's Nicole Pierce with the Christmas song, or Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.
Speaker 6:You tied carols being sung by a choir, folks dressed up like Eskimos Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright. Tiny tots with their eyes on a glow We'll find it hard to sleep tonight. They know that sent us on his way. He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleeve and every mother's child is gonna spy To see if reindeer really know how to fly. And so I'm offering this simple phrase To kids from one to ninety-two. Although it's been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas to you. So I'm offering this simple phrase To kids from one to ninety-two. Although it's been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 2:Wonderful Nicole. Thank you, and for Nicole's husband, mike's song. This is one that we actually plucked from the Poly's Online Variety Show, number 90. This was our second annual holiday special on the Vodacity Network back on December 23rd 2021. But Mike had just gotten a slide guitar, was learned into play that and recorded well, accompanied himself in a rendition of Blue Christmas. He was playing with some green screen and recording all the different parts and we're happy to share that again. Here's Mike Pierce with Blue Christmas.
Speaker 7:I'll have a blue Christmas without you. I'll be so blue thinking about you. Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me. And when those blue snowflakes start falling, that's when those blue memories start calling. You'll be doing alright with your Christmas away, but I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas. Oh, oh, oh, oh oh. We do it all right with your Christmas of white, but I have a blue, blue Christmas. Oh, yes, I have a blue, blue Christmas.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, I have a blue Christmas.
Speaker 1:Out of all the rangers, you know you're the mastermind. Run run Rudolph ran off into far behind. Run run Rudolph, santa's gotta make it to town. Santa, make him hurry. Tell him he can take the free way down. Run run Rudolph, I'm feeling like a merry-go-round. Sent Santa to a boy child. What have you been longing for? All I want for Christmas is a rock and roll electric guitar. Then a way went, rudolph. It wasn't like a shooting star. Run run Rudolph, santa's gotta make it to town. Santa, make him hurry. Tell him he can take the free way down. Run run Rudolph, I'm feeling like a merry-go-round. Sent Santa to a girl child. What would leisure most to get A little baby doll that can pricy, drink and play. And then a way went, rudolph. It wasn't like a saboteur. Run run Rudolph, santa's gotta make it to town. Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the free way down. Run run Rudolph. I'm feeling like a merry-go-round.
Speaker 2:Amanda's husband, david, is a classical pianist and we actually got to introduce our cove podcast audience to him in episode 10 of the podcast where he introduced us to some of his original work and other classical music pieces. So happy he sat down to record a little something for this show here this year this evening, ladies and gentlemen, here is David Benjamin performing O Little Town of Bethlehem as arranged by Charles Lindbergh. I mentioned episode five of the podcast where you got to meet my children, noah and Everly. Everly is back performing a new song for us for this episode. She recently had a dancer cycle and her dance, her tap class, did a dance to this number and so that was fresh in her mind and she said I want to perform that one for the show. So here it is, everly Carganilla performing KC Musgraves, ribbons and Bows.
Speaker 4:I knew Mercedes would look nice in my driveway or around trip ticket for a long vacation in a big, fancy jet plane. There's only one thing that I want. Maybe it's hard to find and it's already mine. Don't need ribbons and bows to cure my wounds, no, I just need your love. Expensive rings or diamond things no, I just need your love. No, I don't need much under the tree, oh, but you can surely wrap me up ribbons and bows to cure my wounds, because I just need your love.
Speaker 4:All the ladies down at the hair salon are gonna brag about what they got. I walk in, dripping in their bubbles and their trinkets and their who's, it's and what's a knot. There's only one thing that I want baby. It's hard to find and it's already mine. Don't need ribbons and bows to cure my wounds no, I just need your love. Expensive things or diamond rings no, I just need your love, oh. I don't need much under the tree, oh, but you can surely wrap me up ribbons and bows to cure my wounds no, I just need your love. I just need your love. Don't need ribbons and bows to cure my wounds, no, I just need your love. Expensive rings or diamond things no, I just need your love. Oh, I don't need much under the tree, oh, but you can surely wrap me up ribbons and bows to cure my wounds. No, I just need your love.
Speaker 2:Bye, merry Christmas on episode 12 of the podcast, we got to meet my friends Ashley Morgan and John Flanagan of the band Fault Lines and we got to enjoy a few of their songs and hear about their musical journey so far. You can find their music anywhere you stream your music find Fault Lines. And they've got a couple of original winter tunes as well. This one is called Snowfall. Here's Fault Lines.
Speaker 8:Oh, there's no place like home.
Speaker 3:Oh, you got nowhere else to go.
Speaker 8:And outside there's a frost in the winter sky, but I don't feel it. Stick with you by my side, cause waking up to you feels like snowfall on Christmas Eve, taking in the morning, the moment before you leave, and I wish that we could take this feeling with us, cause with you it's always snowfall On Christmas. Don't want her to find Wanna dance with you under the northern stars as the light from the fire begins to expire and everything else fades away. We can cover the windows, fade into the shadows and wait for the daylight to break. Cause waking up to you feels like snowfall on Christmas Eve, taking in the morning, the moment before you leave, and I wish that we could take this feeling with us, cause with you it's always snowfall. Cause with you it's always snowfall On Christmas. All I want for Christmas this Christmas, please don't leave. Waking up to you feels like snowfall on Christmas day, taking in the morning the.
Speaker 8:Moment before you wake, and I hope that we can keep this feeling with us, cause with you it's always snowfall.
Speaker 2:And Wendy returns to join us for some holiday music to share one of her performances from the aforementioned Polly's online variety show number 90. Back in 2021 she performed live on the show this rendition of I'll Be Home for Christmas that she smashed together remix, mash up with a little Patsy Klein. You belong to me, very happy to share that again with you all. Here is Wendy Walker.
Speaker 8:I'll Be Home for Christmas. You can count on me. Please have snow and mistletoe and presents on the tree.
Speaker 8:Christmas Eve will find me when the love light gleams. I'll Be Home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. I'll be so alone without you. Maybe you'll be low sun too and blue. Fly the ocean in a silver plane. See the jungle when it's wet with rain. Just remember till you're home again. You belong to me. See the marketplace in old Alchirps. Send me photographs and souvenirs. Just remember when a dream appears. Christmas Eve will find me when the love light gleams. I'll Be Home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.
Speaker 2:I'll be so alone, without you.
Speaker 3:Look around, is he here?
Speaker 3:Oh oh oh. We've been through so many ups and downs. Now it's our favorite time of year. This is our holiday season, Thankful for so many reasons. We all need something to believe in. So in this holiday season, sure little love. You wrap it up in a bow. It's better to give. And I want to live all day this year. This is our holiday season. We all need something to believe in. Hey there, clouds, let the sun fall down, down, down, down, fire up on the ground. Hey there, clouds, let the sun fall down. Let it fall down, down, down, fire up on the ground. Do some good in your neighbor. Have you made somebody's day the day you should Cause? There's nothing like the feeling you get inside. It's like a best surprise every time. Pour some hot cocoa in your cocoa cup. Oh oh oh. I can't wait till the lights go up. No, no, no, you never know who might show up.
Speaker 3:Look around, is he here? We've been through so many ups and downs. Now it's our favorite time of year. This is our holiday season, thankful for so many reasons. We all need something to believe in. So in this holiday season, sure little love. You wrap it up in a bow. It's always better to give, and I want to live all day this year. This is our holiday season. We all need something to believe in. Hey there, clouds, let the sun fall down, down, down, down, fire up on the ground. Hey there, clouds, let the sun fall down, down, down, down, fire up on the ground. Sure, some extra love. That everybody know, cause it's the feeling we get when everything starts to twinkling. Oh oh oh, this is our holiday season. We all need something to believe in. And when the sun falls to the ground, look around, it's my favorite time of year. We've been through so many ups and downs. Now it's our favorite time of year.
Speaker 2:We're on the record player here in the wintertime. Here's Jamie Carganella performing River.
Speaker 8:Thank you.
Speaker 8:It's coming on Christmas. They're cutting down trees, putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. But it don't snow here stays pretty green. I'm gonna make a lot of money then I'm gonna quit this crazy scene.
Speaker 8:Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I made my baby cry. He tried hard to help me. He put me at ease and he loved me, so not he made me weak in the knees. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I'm so hard to handle, I'm selfish and I'm sad. Now I've gone and lost the best baby that I ever had. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly. Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I made my baby say goodbye. It's coming home Christmas. They're cutting down trees, putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace. I wish I had a river I could skate away on Such a sad song. I'm sorry to end it at such a downer.
Speaker 1:But Merry.
Speaker 8:Christmas everybody, thank you.
Speaker 2:Growing up, one of my favorite memories in the house was Christmas time playing the records, hearing the vinyl crackle on our sound system in the house, sitting around the family room listening to holiday music, and one of my favorites was always the Carpenter's Christmas record and so many classic tunes on that. But one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs is Merry Christmas Darling, and of course no one will ever do it better than Karen Carpenter. But since it is one of my favorites and holds a very special place in my heart, I wanted to wrap up our first Cove podcast holiday music episode with a little rendition of Merry Christmas Darling. Greeting cards have all been sent. The Christmas rush is through. I still have one wish to make Merry Christmas Darling. We're apart, that's true, but I can dream, and in my dreams I'm Christmasing with you. Holidays are joyful, there's always something new, but every day's a holiday when I'm near to you.
Speaker 2:There's no lights on my tree. I wish you could see. I wish it every day. Dogs on the fire fill me with desire to see you and to say that I wish you Merry Christmas. Happy New Year too. I've just one wish on this Christmas Eve I wish I were with you. The logs on the fire fill me with desire to see you and to say that I wish you Merry Christmas. Happy New Year too. I've just one wish on this Christmas Eve I wish I were with you. I wish I were with you.
Speaker 2:Any regular listener of the podcast, even if you've just heard one or two episodes, you know that we love to wrap up our episodes with a poetry reading, usually recited and interpreted by our episode producer, craig Jackman, and this evening our holiday music episode will be no different. Here, to perform an interpretation of A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement Clark Moore is Craig Jackman, and if the title of the poem sounds a little foreign to you, you'll recognize it right off the bat. This is an American I would say global classic, recited at Christmas time and holds a very special place in the memories and hearts of millions around the world, I'm sure. And here's producer Craig with that special poem.
Speaker 9:Towards the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads, and Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter. I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window, I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of a new fallen snow gave a luster of midday to objects below and what, to my wondering eyes, did appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer With a little old driver. So lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St Nick. More rapid than eagles, his cursors, they came and he whistled and shouted and called them by name Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen on Comet, on Cupid, on Donner, on Blitzen, to the top of the porch, to the top of the wall. Now Dash away, dash away, dash away. All as leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the housetop, the courses they flew with a sleighful of toys, and St Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
Speaker 9:As I drew in my head and was turning around down the chimney, st Nicholas came witha bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back and he looked like a peddler, just opening his sack. His eyes, how they twinkled. His dimples, how merry. His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
Speaker 9:He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word but went straight to work and filled all the stockings and then turned, with a jerk and laying a finger aside his nose and giving a nod up the chimney, he rose. He sprang to his sleigh to his team, gave a whistle and away. They all flew like the down of a thistle, but I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight Ho ho ho. Happy Christmas to all, and to all A good night.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, everybody, for joining us for this very first Holiday Music Cove Podcast episode, and thank you to all of the performers who submitted a song or joined us for a tune along the way. I hope to see you again next year and many others as well, as this Cove family continues to grow and join us next week for a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. If you don't, if we don't see you between now and the end of the holidays, I wish you and your family the happiest of holidays from everyone here at Cove Podcast.
