Nobody Wants Me For Christmas

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2001
Written and sung by Zoomer Roberts
Buddy Winston: guitar

Don't Give Me Nothin' For Christmas Blues

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2008
Zoomer Roberts: vocal, harmonica & composition
Buddy Winston: guitar

Christmas as I knew it

Downtown El Paso in the 1960s



















Cold, Cold Christmas @ Star City 12-10-17



Eric Boseman: percussion
Buddy Winston: guitar
Zoomer Roberts: vocal

It's Christmas Eve Day (en la tienda Targét)

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2000
Written and sung by Zoomer Roberts
Buddy Winston: guitar
Your host is Gregg Carthy

Listen!                                                                           

  

Sleigh Bell Boogie



recorded December 1975
Zoomer Roberts: vocal, guitar, bass
Cindy Seaman: piano
Cindy Bickford: drums


This original composition is from the Texas Goldrush Christmas Album. After issuing a couple of well-received singles, Cliff Seaman converted his garage into a studio in hopes of producing his own records. For this project we wrote some Christmas songs and recorded them in the wee hours after our regular gig at the Sun City Lounge. The results were dubbed onto 8-track tapes and sold from the bandstand. Decades later, I rediscovered and digitized my only copy. Listening to this track today, a third of a century after it was recorded, it sounds like an outtake from a Dr. Demento collection. Yell "yule," y'all!

Jingle Bell Rock

recorded 4 December 2010
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

recorded 4 December 2010
Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar

A Visit From St. Nicholas




Read by Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong and 
Basil Rathbone
Remixed by Zoomer Roberts

Zoomer's Christmas Medley

recorded 4 December 2010
Zoomer Roberts: harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

1) The First Noel
2) Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3) God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Please Don't Sing Another Christmas Carol ('cause on Christmas, Carol Said "Goodbye" to Me)

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2008
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar


Of the several songs I've written, this is my favorite!











God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen!

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2000
Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar


























Santa Claus Is Back In Town

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2007
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

Old Fashioned Christmas (recitation)

Original poem read by Zoomer Roberts
Guitar: Buddy Winston
from the KTEP broadcast of 13 December 2014


Christmas Island

Recorded 3 December 2011
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: banjo uke

1913 Massacre

Recorded 3 December 2011
Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar                                          

Woody Guthrie wrote this song about a Christmas party from Hell. We only did it a couple of times before we dropped it. As Buddy said, "It's a downer."

It Could Be Christmas

recorded 4 December 2010
Written and sung by Zoomer Roberts

Buddy Winston: guitar

If you could recapture the sound of a chime
That rang from a steeple in a far distant time
And lingered a moment in the wintery haze
Then it could be Christmas in so many ways

If you could breathe life into old memories
The glint of the tinsel, the scent of the tree
The gleam of the moonlight on a blanket of snow
Then it could be Christmas wherever you go

The warmth and the light of the crackling yule fire
Cast long, dancing shadows that seem to aspire
To a scene reminiscent of Currier & Ives
Where it could be Christmas all the days of our lives

If we could gather together once more
The near and the dear ones who've gone on before
Our hearts would be gladdened their faces to see
And it could be Christmas like it used to be

If you could treat others as you'd have them treat you
And sing the old carols as if they were new
And tell the old Story, never changing a word
Then it could be Christmas wherever it's heard

Zoomer Roberts
2007

If the tune sounds familiar, it's because I borrowed it from Hank Snow's "Brand On My Heart."















Frontier Christmas by Hudson Landry


Feliz Navidad

Buddy Winston: lead vocal & guitar
Zoomer Roberts: harmony vocal
Recorded 12 December 2009 at La Tierra Cafe

The Little Drummer Boy

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2001
Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar

White Christmas by Cowboy Copas

Performed by Cowboy Copas
recorded 1947
dubbed from a scratchy 78 (King 675)

Jingle Bells by Cowboy Copas

Performed by Cowboy Copas
recorded 1947
(King 675)


Frankie's Christmas

This is an Apple® commercial, but it's heartwarming and worthy of repeated viewings.  

The Bells of Saint Mary's @ Star City

Eric Boseman: percussion
Buddy Winston: guitar
Zoomer Roberts: harmonica & vocal
10 December 2017

"An Empty Stocking"

David Niven's sermonette from "The Bishop's Wife"

Tonight I want to tell you the story of an empty stocking.

Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child's cry. A blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven't forgotten that night down the centuries. We celebrate it with stars on Christmas trees with the sound of bells, and with gifts. But especially with gifts.

You give me a book, I give you a tie. Aunt Martha has always wanted an orange squeezer and Uncle Henry could do with a new pipe. For we forget nobody, adult or child. All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have even forgotten to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger. It's His birthday we're celebrating. Don't let us ever forget that.

Let us ask ourselves what He would wish for most. And then, let each put in his share: loving kindness, warm hearts, and a stretched-out hand of tolerance - all the shining gifts that make peace on Earth.

The Cherry Tree Carol (Child 54)

Recorded 14 December 2013
(KTEP Christmas broadcast)
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

Do You Hear What I Hear?


Recorded 22 December 2012
(KTEP Christmas broadcast)
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

Santaland Diaries

The 1992 NPR broadcast version of David Sedaris' hilarious holiday classic.

Everywhere It's Christmas

The Beatles' 1966 Fan Club Christmas Record

Here Comes Fatty Claus

(unsuitable for children and some adults)

¡Merry Christmas, Amigos!

'Tis the night before Christmas,
and all through the casa
Not a creature is stirring.
¡Caramba! ¿Que Pasa?
The stockings are hanging, con mucho cuidado,
In hopes that St. Nicholas will feel obligado
To leave a few cosas aquí and allí
For chico y chica (and something por mí )
Los niños are snuggled all safe in their camas
(Some in camisas and some in pajamas)
Their little cabezas are full of good things
Tódos esperan que Santa will bring.

Santa is down at the corner saloon
(muy borracho since mid afternoon)
Mama is sitting beside la ventana
Shining her rolling pin para mañana
When Santa will come un manner extraño,
Lit up like the Star on the Mountain, cantando,
Y Mama lo manda to bed with a right
¡Merry Christmas a todos y a todos good night! 

Noche de Paz

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2008
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar


My father used to sing this. His Spanish wasn't very good. Neither is mine. This was our only attempt at this.

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht

Ernestine Schumann-Heink (contralto)
recorded circa 1911

Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2000
Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar

Christmas Hymns and Carols

performed by Trinity Choir
recorded circa 1926
dubbed from a 78rpm record (Victor 35712)

Christmas Melodies

Performed by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
recorded 1928 (Columbia 50098-D)

Blue Christmas

from the KTEP Christmas broadcast of 2008
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & harmonica
Buddy Winston: guitar

Photo by Pat O. Winston