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Ok, yes, we may be burning this title when there are certainly multiple renditions of "Santa Baby" called "Santa Daddy" that we didn't touch in this episode. We're just going to have to call that one "Daddy Christmas" or something. No, rather than casting actual Santa as a metaphorical daddy, this Father's Day episode features songs about actual fathers and not-actual Santa Clauses: "Santa Claus Looks Like My Daddy" by Danny Kaye and "Daddy's Beer" by Dave Gunning.
Thank you to Myles for requesting "Santa Claus Looks Like My Daddy"!
The ranking music in this episode is "Santa Claus is a Black Man" by Akim and Teddy Vann.

It's getting to be that time of year! You know, the time of year when it feels completely wild to tell someone that you listen to a year-round winter-holiday music podcast? But don't worry, we've got two listener requests to kick your holiday spirit back into high gear. "Bing Crosby Wrote Festive Christmas Songs" by Angry Snowmans is a cover that puts a right jolly twist on a punk standard. Then the upbeat "I Still Believe in Christmas" by The Fleshtones puts us in the mood for prancing, dancing, dashing, and dondering!
(Side note: if you want to know the origins of all of Angry Snowmans' songs, someone did that legwork and posted it on reddit three years ago!)
The ranking music in this episode is "Bob Dylan Wrote Propoganda Songs" by The Minutemen.
Thank you to Kevin for these requests!

Since it's almost Victoria Day (or as Canadians call it, "May Long Eh"), we're talking British Christmas music again -- specificially a few popular tunes that never crossed the threshold into Christmas #1s in the UK. "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay is, you know, fine. It's fine! And "You're Christmas to Me" by Sam Ryder? It's FINE. WHATEVER, OK? IT'S FINE.
The ranking music in this episode is "Best Friends Squad" by Strong Bad, for reasons that should become obvious.

To celebrate the upcoming International Workers' Day on May 1st, we've got two Christmas songs about: who else? WORKERS, BABY! Well, technically, they're also about landlords and bosses, but only in the way that Taken is about the guys who kidnapped that lady from Lost. Jeez, has she tried being in something called Exactly Where She's Supposed To Be? Anyway: we listened to "Christmas Eve In the East Side" by Aunt Molly Jackson, followed by "National Living Rage" by... let's go with Siobhain McDonagh and friends for now.
The ranking music in this episode is "No Christmas in Kentucky" by Phil Ochs.

Our annual 4/20 episode is back, and this year? Good songs only!!! You may be surprised to hear that we were still able to find two good weed-themed winter holiday songs, but indeed: "High on Hanukkah" by Micah E. Wood (featuring Ari Pluznik and Seth Kibel) is an enjoyable ode to holiday paranoia, and "Kushmas" by Smino is... well, surely it's about something, but that's sort of beside the point.
The ranking music in this episode is "Sleigh", also by Smino (featuring Monte Booker and Masego)!

As per tradition (at least from days of yore when we did episodes weekly), we're using the week of Easter to add some more traditional Christmas music to our list. And it just so happens that both of this episode's songs are from the same album, 2012's Holidays Rule! Both songs were also composed by guys named Henry who were better known for other things, which I guess is also kind of a fun coincidence? Calexico's take on King Henry VIII's "Green Grows the Holly" is a breath of fresh air, but Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" as performed by The Civil Wars is just kinda... air.
This week's ranking music is "The Holly and the Ivy" performed by Los Campesinos!