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Featuring the Boys of the Lough, Anonymous 4, Turtle Island String Quartet, and holiday classics like "The Shoppers Waltz," the answering-machine sketch, and Johnny Johnson's Christmas Dance and Dinner.

Rebroadcast on December 14, 1996.

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  • Boys of the Lough
  • Turtle Island String Quartet

Opening[]

"Oh, hear that old piano from down the avenue.
I smell the [noun], I look around for you.
Oh my sweet, sweet old someone, coming through that door.
It's Saturday and the band is playing.
Honey, could we ask for more?"
        – Tishomingo Blues


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