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W♥M149: Mark Mallman Interview

W♥M149 (24 mins)

Mark Mallman is the guest on W♥M Radio.

Things we talked about:

• Breaking news: Moon River singer, Andy Williams died last night, September 25th, at the age of 84. At the height of his popularity, he was doing the Andy Williams Show from 1962-1971 and was married to French actress/model Claudine Longet (who had a career as a pop singer, but it ended untimely when she allegedly murdered her boyfriend Olympic skier Vladimir Sabich.)
• Mallman's other bands, The Odds and Ruby Isle. Discussion about Ruby Isle's cover album Appetite for Destruction, which was never officially released due to legal issues.
• Mallman's "Marathon" series, which started as a joke but now has become part of what Mark Mallman is known for. The Marathon evolved to a live broadcast from New York to Los Angeles.
• Double Silhouette is the new Mark Mallman album; coming out October 9th.
• Song of the show is Mallman's "The Man With Music Instead of Blood," taken from the forthcoming Double Silhouette.

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W♥M096: I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You

W♥M096 [download (12min, 9mb)] (alternative)

Part four of We♥Christmas. Vu picks one of his favorite Christmas song: "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You".

I actually wrote an article about this song three years ago, but it's such a great song, it's worth revisiting.

Below are details of each version of the song:

As far as anyone's concern, Claudine Longet's version of "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" is the official original version - because it was the first that was commercially released in 1967 and basically was a song commissioned by Longet's producers. The song was written by Margo Guryan, who recorded a demo of it for Longet. Guryan's version wasn't made available until 2001, with her compilation 25 Demos.

St Etienne recorded a cover version of "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You", but for their fanclub only in 1998 for a two-track CD single.

Tomorrow's World recorded cover version of "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You", appearing on Cherry Tree/El Record's The World In Winter compilation in 2000... The Tomorrow's World song later resurfaced under other El compiliations, such as Christmas Cocktails With Santa's Swingin' Stocking Fillers (2008) and Merry Kitschmas (2009). Collect them all.

Pizzicato Five sampled the "fla-la-la-la" from "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" and based on TV Jesus' "Room Service" for their song "20th Century Girl" under the US album, Fifth Release from Matador from Matador Records in 2000.

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