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Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, maybe for some of you, I will be the
first one to say these words. Merry Christmas. Welcome to
the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day number six,
which would mean that it's the month of June. Now,
before we tell you about the program today, we're going
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to do what we always do, and we're going to
start with God's word. You know, the song, Oh Come,
all ye faithful, behold Him born, the King of Angels.
Oh Come, let us adore him. Adoration is a word
that we love to use during the Christmas season, thanks
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largely to the classic Oh Come, all ye faithful. As
we sing, oh Come, let us adore Him, so many
of us during Christmas season spend more time thinking about
Christ and giving him adoration than at any other time
of the year. Think about that for a moment. This
is the one day of the year that literally around
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the world, everything pretty much stops, grinds to a halt.
More people go to church during Christmas than any other
time of the year. We also tend to find ourselves
singing and listening to songs about Jesus or during the
Christmas season than at any other time of the year,
and it makes sense as a result Christmas is a
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time when we love to praise Him, to honor him,
to adore him, much the way that it's described in
Philippians two verses nine, ten, and eleven. Listen to what
it says. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed
on him the name that is above every name. And
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so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should
bound in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father. While it's great that
Christ earns so much of our attention in adoration during Christmas,
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it's important to remember that we should pay that same
amount attention to him twelve months a year instead of
just one.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sure, it's e's going to get caught up in the
Christmas spirit and spend more time thinking, singing, praying, and
adoring Christ during December, But in order to have a
true relationship with Christ, we must adore we must spend
time with him throughout the year. This year, as you
move out of the Christmas season and back into the normalcy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Of life, I'm going to challenge you strive to find
ways to capture Christmas that will enable you to adore
and grow with Him every day of the year. So
let me ask what keeps you from adoring and spending
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time with Christ on a daily basis? And what steps
will you take to ensure that you spend your time
daily with Christ? All right, welcome, and we are joined
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by special music provided by Live in Studio with me
is the one, the only Marvin Goldstein. Hello, dear friend.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Hello, you're the dear friend to me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Man, you're the dear friend to all. I'm only a
friend to some others don't like me so much. You get,
you get behind a keyboard. Everybody loves you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So you got a fifty to fifty going.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I maybe, maybe, maybe, but maybe on a day like today,
it's Christmas Day, and yeah, it's just it's special you
and I get to do this. And yes, we're recording
this a few days before Christmas, but.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It feels like Christmas. It does. It does, yes, Christmas,
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And and I've got to tell you I was a
little surprised you didn't bring eighty eight keys with you.
Today you are making the magic happen with fewer than
eighty eight keys.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Sixty one keys. Man, you know why because your desk
isn't big enough.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've struggled in years past getting that eighty a key
keyboard on there having work.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So you got improvise. You just got to play the
notes you're given.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Period. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
All right, let's start you and I talking here for
just a minute before we get to the history segment,
which I'll do very quickly. Yes, when I talk about
Christmas morning, is there something that happens every Christmas morning
in your home and has over the years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, the anticipation for children is we know why pretty much.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So do you remember those days when your kids were young?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Absolutely? I mean I stayed up till three thirty four
in the morning trying to see that all this ready,
and then they were either up early or or they
had you had to wake them up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How many how many years did you have to like,
oh my gosh, I'm going to be up in like
two and a half hours because you spent so much
time preparing the night before.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, my prayers were am I going to be awake
when they come down? Are they still?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh my gosh, can I take a nap? You're only
on gift fifty?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Did you play Christmas music in your home growing up
as as a parent with the young kids, did you
sit down at your piano and play absolutely?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Not?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Really?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Is it sort of like a painter doesn't paint his
own house, an auto mechanic doesn't work on his own car,
and you're a pianist and you're not going to really
play all that much at home.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, it almost seemed like it was self self like,
I can do this, okay, and the tension is to
be on the meaning and the children and the family.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, fair enough, okay, all right, Well as those of
you that are regular listeners again twelve days of Preston.
This is day number six in the month of June
and out again. I'll talk more about that here in
just a second. But we always do some history, and
so without playing a traditional Christmas song, I'm going to
challenge you to give me some December holiday music to
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do history too, okay, So go okay, and you're gonna
take us to the break. It was on this day,
December twenty fifth in history. In sixteen fifty one.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
By order of Puritan lawmakers in Massachusetts, any colonist caught
observing Christmas with feats or other festivities would be fined
five shillings.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Can you believe that that actually happened? In seventeen seventy six,
George Washington's army cross the Delaware on Christmas night for
surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton. The next morning,
eighteen thirty in South Carolina, the Best Friend of Charleston
becomes the first US locomotive to begin regularly scheduled passenger service.
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President Andrew John Some grants an unconditional pardon to all
Confederates involved in the Civil War that was in eighteen
sixty eight, and John Phillips Susan completes his most famous
march Stars and Stripes Forever on Christmas Day in eighteen
ninety six. That's crazy on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Look at that.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
It's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There's a good piece of trivia for you. Now today
it's going to be some storytelling. We're going to break
open some stories from the past. We're going to share
the Man and the Birds and you you did it. No,
you didn't warn me.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You must push your wrong button.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nice, try don't dump that on me. Fifteen seconds to break,
so you keep playing for another fifteen to ten seconds seconds. Yeah,
and you can tell we're doing this live. We're not really,
We're not doing it over again. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott in the Twelve Days of Preston. Yeah,
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I had to wait for the obligatory key change. Welcome
back to the Twelve Days of Preston with me. Is
a concert pianist, extraordinary, better person, Marvart Goldstein with us
this morning, and let's let let me let me lay
out first of all, we have him set up now, okay,
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and you feel free to add whatever coutre man you
want to the segments that we're talking. There you go
that that that's Marvin setting up today. It was a
bit challenglenging. Our equipment was a little challenging this morning,
and his sixty one keys provided some challenges for us.
But most notably, he needed to have a chair that
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was not movable. It needed to no longer be on wheels.
We needed one that was stationary. Please, and then do
you do you have any of the masking tape that
we could tape down the sustained pedal so it doesn't
move around. And by the chair, I'm sorry, I don't
mean to be a bother. But by any change, do
you have a cushion for the seat? Because I'm a
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bit I need to be.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Elevated just away, just a scoushigher.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you need a microphone that works, by the way.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't think so. So he started going through all
of these things, these gyrations, so that he's.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Comfortable at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, that's not true where it is not here. So
we've got him comfortable. Now, how different is it for
you to play a keyboard like this versus a full
eighty eight keys?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's really ridiculous, to tell you the truth. Yeah, because
it has no weight weighted on the keys at all.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, there's no waiting on it. It's like a cassio keyboard.
But our thanks to music masters for providing yet again
another keyboard. And you you requested this.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No, no, it's workable.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's just like but I mean, you asked for this
because you didn't want to lug the eighty eight key
and are you asked for me? That's true?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So what does that get this?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I've sixty one keys without weighted keys, I guess, but
it is it is noticeably different.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Let me ask you though, because I'm not a pianist.
I could ask my wife, but she's not here. You are,
How many sacrifices do you have to make when you're
playing something when you do not have the full repertoire
of keys available to you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well, it'd be hard to have anyone that cannot impromptu
improvise at all if you're gonna have to access notes
that would be on on either side here of an
eighty eight and there's just sixty one, you just have
to know what not to hit.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So is it the extreme right of the keyboard. And
in other words, the high notes and the lowest notes
are the ones missing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Actually, in this case, there are no notes missing on
the right side.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Actually, okay, so it's all on the on the left hand.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
On the left hand.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, And so you go down here. If you need
a real low note, you go, here's what's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Gonna happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, be like this.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Here's a low note C on this keyboard, right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, But then if you want.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
To go lower, you got to go and there's a
low note.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You just have to beat the tar out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And then hopefully it sounds like the right note.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hit it again. No, no, no, no, the key the
key not same one? Oh wait, didn't work?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Wait here you go.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
There it is okay, okay, sounds like the keyboards gargling.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, it sounds like you playing the piano.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That that that would be an improved version of me
playing the keyboard right there. And you consider this a
keyboard versus a piano. There's a difference, right.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Of course, there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Come on, now, I don't I don't swim in those waters.
You gotta work with.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Them, okay, okay. So in a music store you go
and you look at piano stuff. If it has no
weight for the fingers, you're in trouble. If you plead
the organ, you're probably better off because an organ does
not have weighted keys.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Either, correct. And so I do know that.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, this keyboard is workable and doable, and it fits
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And it offers you a lot of different sounds to
play around and toy with.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, here's a piano part, but there's another one. There's
another one. You want to get married again?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Tell me this?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Heez where I come from?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
If you you as a point of reference for all
of you. Marvin was kind enough to once again offer
a concert to a donor that gave a minimum of
a five thousand dollars donation. That there are some that
gave money to Orphan Shade, and they just they did
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not want the attention. They didn't want the concert. They
appreciated the offer, but they just wanted to give the money.
And we and we respect that privacy, but and thank you.
But we made the offer because Marvin wanted to say, look,
I'm willing to do a concert, a one hour concert
wherever you like, uh in the region and in return
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for a donation Orphan Shade, and we got that donation.
You met with the gentleman and tell everybody what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, I didn't know where I'm going to play, didn't matter.
You did say in the region, would be okay, in
nearby county or whatever. So but I went to the
it's okay to mention the grove sure in town. And
the man that I met that day has his father
there as a resident. His father's in his nineties. I
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looked behind me, I didn't know who it was, but
then he raised his hands on him. The place was packed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I thought they.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Had I don't know, got two hundred people there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Of course it was.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And so I told him, you know, I'm gonna play
everything I know, but it won't take but about five
minutes stop it. Well I did say that, by the way,
so they all didn't laugh. So they're going like, are
you guys gonna be funny or he's gonna be like
half dead? What's going on here? So anyway, I played
and I played and I played. It was an hour long,
just impromptu. Then I took requests. I knew that that
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age group would provide me the.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Songs that they know. All of them. Yeah, one was
moon River?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Okay, right?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So it wasn't just Chris miss music.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Oh not at all.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, no, hardly any was there any?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
There were none.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It was all just music from the.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Day right Broadway.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
They want Broadway, Sure, they want a fam of the
opera they wanted. I can't recall all of them, but
it was it was cool. They actually provided me the
list for the program that day.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was there one particular song that when you saw the
list you were like, yeah, it just brought a smile
to your face because you know the song well and
you love playing it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Moon River was that piece. Okay, and I started, I started,
oh wait, let me. Yeah, that was abat. Here's what
I started the concert doing. Here's exactly what I did
that brought a laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I'm here, great beautiful piano, nice and tune, and here
we go. I went, dang it, wait, hang on, I'm sorry,
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it's just.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And the guy who paid the money to orphan Chad's
looking at you, like really, I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Said, you know, I really worked on this thing. And
then I went like this, and immediately there as I
went and they went, oh, he doesn't know how to
play okay, whoa. And so it was one of the
noted the noted performances ever that I've ever given.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Here the response because of the joy, Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
My gosh, because of Wyatt and where and it was
just a joy. Yes, it definitely was a joy. I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Do you remember the first full song you played?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I think I did play Phantom of the Opera, but
I only did part of it. I went, you know,
I actually hate this keyboard.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But here we go, but our thanks to music.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, thanks for this, hear this might as well play
it like this.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
There we go? Did it right?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, now this is fine. This is a good good keyboard.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We got a minute and a half before we take
a break and when we get some news. So let's go. Well,
you're gonna have to I'll cut you. Then I'll just
you just play and then I'll just have to edit you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
My friends, so long you're cutting me.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, that's the way it works around here. Okay, we
spare no one.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You're the boss.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So now we have a minute fifteen. Oh sorry, we're
running out of time.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, so let me I know that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Let's play a little Christmas fair here. It is Christmas morning,
Merry Christmas. It's the Twelve Days of Preston with Marvin
Goldstein this morning, and and and I'll explain as we
go out to break. I've made the decision there's no
way I could play interviews and news. It's Christmas morning.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
We need a break.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And so we're going to give you a break here
this morning. And it's just going to be Christmas music
and some that you might not recognize as Christmas music
from other parts of the world. We'll share some stories,
and of course the Man and the Birds, and Marvin's
going to create a Christmas song live on the spot,
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So stay with us. It's the Twelve Days of Preston
It's the Morning Show with Preston's got the News's next. Sorry,
we got to do a little news, but more to
come here, so stay with us. Welcome back to the
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Twelve Days of Preston. I'm Preston, Jose and I are
taking a break, but we didn't want to leave you
with the normal programming that's on when we're gone, so
we have offered the twelve Days of Preston, and this
is day number six, the month of June, but we're
suspending all all of the news and the interviews and
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all of that. You're going to get the news at
the top and bottom of the hour, but we're not
going to talk about that stuff. It's Christmas Day. Merry
Christmas everybody, and joining me in studio is Marvin Goldstein,
our good friend. And how many years have we done this?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Have we've done this? Maybe six? Eight years a row
something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Sorry again the cord to play.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, sorry, go ahead. We've done this for how many years?
Have is it five years? We've done this now? I
think the special Christmas? I know we've done the we've
done this show two years. This is the second year
we've done this where we've come in and recorded a
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special Christmas show. But you've come in and we've done
something on the show live for several years.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now, six yeah, maybe years.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, And and I just got to thinking, okay, we are.
We're at about six thirty five in the morning, give
or take a few minutes Christmas morning. It's five thirty
five in the Central time Zone. And you just described
the scene. I remember absolutely, and it's that scene of
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I just finished the dollhouse. The shingles are drying. I
remember one year making a dollhouse, and I'm I was
the idiot too. I built everything early. And here's what
I said to myself, this is gonna be so much
fun because I want to save something for Christmas Eve.
So I'm gonna do the shingles on Christmas Eve. What
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an idiot?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I think I got shingles on New Year's Eve myself.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Hundreds of shingles glude, one at a time. Oh no,
what dope.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Oh and guess what happened to me at least three
years or three years?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, where's the Scotch tape?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh no, you ran out the role?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh do I go to a neighbor in like it's four.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Thirty in the morning, like you're borrowing sugar or something.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So I think I had to get some Elmer's glue
to get that.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Oh no, neither, I think I actually did. Yes, oh
my goodness that I said.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All right, what are they gonna care?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right, let's let's throw a lifeline to moms and
dads out there that you were up all night doing
what you do, preparing. You know what I'm saying. I'm
not saying anything about Santa Claus one way or the other.
I'm just saying you were up all night doing what
you do, and now you're up again and you've got
to face the day bravely. So let's encourage with some
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Christmas music here. Okay, what would you play for a
parent just waking up?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Okay, oh that's a good one. Okay, put on the pedal.
Here we go, Here we go when they're just waking up.
This is very cool. But it would be like this.
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Then it goes.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Now it says stirring up.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Look it.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I hope they don't wake up. I hope they don't
wake up early.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You're talking about the kids. Now, yes, we don't have
the kids wake up.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
But then all of a sudden, there's a little stir
in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That guy stuck in the chimney.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Who is that?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh he's not. He's supposed to have been here last night.
Here we go, and now outside it's getting It's just
like light coming up. It was dark for so long.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, I've been living in the dark for so long
and so but it's so early.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I can't remember their notes. So I mean, it's like,
how can I think I'm not done any sleep?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So it comes out like this up that stink.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So no matter how you're playing it, you're hearing it
just dis joined it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I hear it, but it's not coming out that good.
So let's quit the piano and let's go over to
the refrigerator. Here we go, ready to go. I hear
I'm waking up, but I just don't want to stay up.
I'm just really tired.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But you have no choice.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I had to celebrate Hanukah. I had to do eight
nights in one. I had to do nine nights.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Of this stuff. It's crazy. Have you ever done nine nights?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I'm no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Are you Jewish?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Last time I checked, I'm not. I think you are, no, sir,
I'm not. I have a great love and appreciation, but
that's about it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Waym have you done that twenty three stuff with.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
A you know the Yeah, I've not twenty three. I've
done ancestry dot com. No, no, no, not a shred
Well all of mine are like a molecule, not just
no DNA no d no, N no A.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And no. J oh my gosh. So anyway, I don't
know what I even said.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, play some Christmas music to wake some people up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
All right, let me get the piano rolling here.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Any second now, Marmon Goldstein.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Name by name, no.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Name, Marvin Goldstein with us this morning, twelve days of Preston.
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It is Christmas morning. Good morning everybody. You know. We
started the show with some devotional, some scripture, and I
hope that you do the same. I hope you remember
that the old saying it was. It was very trendy
for a number of years that you founded in the
stories you can't spell Christmas without Christ. And then it
kind of has faded away. Christmas certainly hasn't, but that
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expression has. And so we want to encourage you to
just stick around the radio. We're going to be sharing
some stories. As I said the end of the show,
Marvin is going to create a first ever. He's never
He's just going to make up a Christmas song. What
inspired you to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Well, I really enjoy with the said have been given
by the Lord that I'm able to if you will
channel two what sacred means musically? Okay, So I can
just think and almost in prayer, think of how to
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communicate without words and make these the notes somehow recognizable
to those listening to it about what it's about, all.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Right, So we're going to do that in the final segments,
so don't miss that. Also in the final hour, we're
going to share the Man and the Birds, which is
our annual Christmas Day story that we make sure that
you hear.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
It's a great one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We play it on the final show of the of
the season and that was back last week, but we
want to share it on Christmas Day and and so
we'll do that as well. But we'll be back. Take
us out. We got ten seconds go.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Okay, welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This is day number six. On any other show, we
would be covering the news for the month of and
this would be the month of June. But you know what,
it's Christmas Day, So Merry Christmas. Marvin Goldstein is with
me in studio and so no, seriously, our heartfelt Merry
Christmas to you, and hope you stick around. We're just
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going to have some laughs and play some music, and
he's going to create a song at the very end
of the show. We've got a couple stories to share,
and I wanted to go back into history and pull
something out that a lot of people have maybe heard,
but a lot of people haven't, because this is one
of those things that's kind of going away a little bit.
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The subject of Santa Claus can be a little controversial
for some. There's some that Nope, it's not part of
our home. Others are like, nah, we have some fun
with it. I was in that category when I was
a kid. My mom, well, one faithful year, my mom
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snagged some red velvet and a little white fluffy stuff
on the corner of the fireplace and then took boots
and let's just say there were ash footprints on the
carpeting matching the boots that were in the fireplace. Just
say it, bootprints in the fireplace that marched out around
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the tree. And that was, you know, and that was
to leave some evidence of you know, for me what
I knew had happened. And I took a polaroid camera
out and snapped a photo of it and insisted we
call the police because I had proof. Well, it reminded
me of this. This from the New York Sun, September
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twenty first, eighteen ninety seven. You ready, we take pleasure
in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below,
expressing at the same time our great gratification that it's
faithful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun.
All right, so this is The New York Sun, late
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eighteen hundreds. Dear editor, I am eight years old. Some
of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, if you see it in the sun, it's so.
Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
Signed Virginia O'Hanlon, one fifteen West ninety fifth Street, New
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York City. This was the editorial response from the New
York Sun, and it's one of the famous lines of
Christmas time. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He
exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist,
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and you know that they abound and give to your
life its highest beauty and joy. Lass How dreary would
the world be if there were no Santa Claus. It
would be as dreary as if there were no Virginia's
no Santa Claus. Thank God he lives, and he lives
forever a thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times
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ten thousand years from now. He will continue to make
glad the heart of childhood beautiful. And that came from
a to think that there was once a time that
a newspaper mattered to people to the extent that they
would write and asked such a question that an eight
year old wou would say, well, then, dad, I'm going
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to write the sun. And so they She penned a
little note and sent it off in the in postage,
and there it was in the late eighteen hundreds. Yes, Virginia,
there is a Santa Claus. I think what I love
about the whole idea is that, yes, there's a historical
you know, to Claus, there is the story and the
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legend and where it all came from. But I think
what I love about Christmas is the opportunity to exemplify
what God says about giving, you know, scripture says that
God so loved the world he gave his only son,
And so to me, I always look at Christmas as
an opportunity to demonstrate thinking of others first. That's to
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me the essence of the Christmas message.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
What about you, Oh, that's as beautiful. I can't imagine
even nowadays that an editorial board would come even close
to anything like that.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And they worded it so well. They kind of avoided
the issue of Santa Claus while talking about what the
spirit and thanking God for it that permeates this season.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
So that child offered those people an opportunity to see
their true thoughts of the season. The child brought that on.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
There's something magical. And whether you celebrate Santa Claus as
a lot of us remember Santa Claus and still treasure
that ideal or not, what I think everyone can agree
on is is it's a great time of year. It's
a joyful time of year, and for us it's about
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remembering and creating new memories. And I think that's what
makes Christmas music so special.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Absolutely, you know, the the idea of any time during
the year for me of giving brings me joy beyond
anything I could give myself. It just nothing means that
as much to me as giving my music. How do
you feel when somebody opens a present from you?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, I had a good friend of mine say,
you know, if I gift wrap a pen and give
it to you, it's not a gift until you open it.
If if it's not received, it's not a gift. It's
just their waiting. And so the gift of Christmas is
found when you open up and receive it. And that's,
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you know, when it's all said and done. Even the
fun songs like I'm gonna ask you to come up
with a Santa Claus song, Okay, okay, something and you
know that has a little Sanna in it. Maybe it's
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Maybe it's here comes Santa Claus.
Whatever you want to pick to take us to a break.
We're going to go to a break in about two
and a half minutes here, all right, But before we
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end this hour with a song with Marvin Goldstein, our
dear friend, I just want you to think about that
idea of Christmas being about opened up gifts, and for
some of you, just think about every gift that might
be opened under the tree, or maybe you're celebrating by yourself,
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and maybe that's just where you are right now. You
can still open up a gift. You can still open
up your heart and you can still receive that gift
that God gave man because he so loved the world,
he gave his only son, and it's up to you.
It's not a gift that's going to be forced on you.
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It's just there waiting for you to open it up.
But as we go to break, let's uh, let's celebrate
the big guy, the jolly Saint Nicholas himself.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
K Kringle, thanks for that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
It's the Twelve Days of Preston. We'll be back with
more with Marvin Goldstein, some stories, some fun right after
the news. Stay with us, Welcome back to the Twelve
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Days of Preston. This is show number six the month
of June. But we're not even considering talking about any
of the news or events of the month of June.
You just heard a little bit of news. We're going
to keep focused on Christmas. It's Christmas Day. Merry Christmas,
everybody enjoying me in studio for our Christmas special concert.
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Panist Extraordinary Marvin Goldstein, maybe more importantly than any of that.
Friend of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Is kind of snow here again.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I hope not. I don't want what we had last year.
That was a little intense.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I saw people sliding down the street. Oh yeah, I
mean weird, and the schools close, people out west.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Going what yeah. But here's what they didn't know. What
they didn't know when they were making fun of us,
is that what happened was we had snow and it
was beautiful, beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful and you could
drive without any problem. But then it melted a little bit,
and then the ice because it stayed so cold that
it then froze over and we had black ice on
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roads all over the place. And even people in the north,
in the Midwest, in the Northeast understand black ice. You
don't drive on black ice.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
A guy in my neighborhood said to me, I couldn't
believe this. He said, I knew it was gonna snow.
My little kids just it was amazing. I don't know
how long it was gonna last. So we went on
Amazon and we bought sleds that came in the next day,
and they had a slope from where the street met
the next street and just sliding down. Yeah, I mean
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there were no traffic, no traffic either.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Absolutely brilliant, but yeah, that was And and I reminded
a few people that were making fun of of our scenario,
and I was like, uh, we had black eyes and
they went, oh, and then you you factor black eyes
with people that don't know how to drive in snow.
That was smart for people to stay out there.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
There was mega profit for the body shops. I'll tell
you that.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I don't doubt that at all. Now, we started with
Frosty the Snowman this hour because you came in here
armed and prepared to defeat an old foe. It was
a few years ago that I mentioned and you're a
mean one, mister Grinch, and I hummed the tune and
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he went, I don't know it like that fact. In fact,
he said, I don't I don't really know it.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
But can you get somebody who knows how to sing?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And you've been and you've been on a mission to
learn that song.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
I don't know why I never did it, but oh
my gosh, but when you sang it, it was unrecognizable.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well, that's not surprising. Yeah, no, I know that, but
but you came prepared.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Now, I'm pretty good on it. If you you should
do some kind of something with.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
This, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do a couple
of verses. Yes, And we've not rehearsed this at all. No,
and so I may have to have you play the
intro a couple of times. But we're gonna try this,
and we're gonna we're gonna have some fun with it.
There will be no special effects. There's not gonna be
a cut take too. This is gonna be one take.
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And if I butcher it, I butcher it, and we're
all gonna laugh at at it. Well, we're probably all
going to laugh anyway.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
But you know, when you do your show, you're on
on there's no retails.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
No, yeah, you just do it well.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Me too.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
But together, this could be This could be a Grinch performance.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
This could be a train wreck, is what it could be.
But that's okay. I'm willing to do it well because
it's Christmas Day and it's free and it's for the kids, right,
all right, So here we go, second hour, Twelve Days
of preston Christmas Day, Merry Christmas everybody, and for you
kids out there listening, because this is a safe arbor
for you, we present at least some kind of version
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of you're a mean one, mister.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Grinch, with Marvin and Preston.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Preston and Marvin, let's talk about.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That's mean Grinch.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
You're a mean one, mister Grinch. You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus. You're as charming as
an heel. Mister gree Inch, You're a bad banana with
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a greasy black peel. You're a vile one, mister Grinch.
You've got termites in your smile. You've got all the
tender sweetness of a seat sick crocodile of mister.
Speaker 7 (45:39):
Greench Your one foul one friends don't have none.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty nine and a
half football. You're a monster, mister Grinch. We're gonna just
keep going. Your heart's in him the hole.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
This is a hit.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
You're a gunner. You got garlic. Wait, you got garnic
in your soul, mister grig My lyric sheet is really bad.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Come on, give it going one more time. Here we
go you're a bad banana mister. Nah, that's they've got
this all wrong. They've got the I looked up the
lyrics sheet and they're just it was terrible. Hold on,
I'm gonna find a better lyric sheet. You just keep playing.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
I will.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
I can make up some words. You're a good one,
rest and Scott. Yeah that's not it.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, No, you're a foul one. Mister grinch. Here we go.
You're in nasty, lasty skunk. Your heart is full of
unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk, mister greed.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
The three words that best describe you are as follows.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
And I quote stink, stank, stunk. You didn't learn that
part of the song, the little interlude there, But uh
I did it right? Yeah, not really, but that's okay.
You want to try another verse, not really do it? Okay?
You're a rotter, mister crunch. You're the king of sinal sots.
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Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots.
Mister Greech, your soul is an appalling dump heap. And
that's where we kind of get lost, because they play
an interlude there. No, I don't blame yeah, you certainly,
don't you nause ates me, mister Grinch with an auseous soup. Bernos,
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you're a crooked jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss.
Mister Green, you're a three decker sauer Kraut and toadstool
sandwich with arsenic. Take us to break. We got thirty seconds.
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It's the Twelve Days of Precedent, and I profoundly regret
what I just put you through.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
We'll be back more with more with Marvin Goldstein on
the Twelve Days of Preston. Don't you leave us? You'll
keep playing. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston
(49:35):
our second segment in this second hour, and we simply
say Merry Christmas to you if you're just waking up
and joining us. I am joined by Marvin Goldstein, and
he has brought a keyboard end courtesy of Music Masters.
Our thanks to Lesson everybody though over there at music Masters,
thank you very much. We appreciate it. He's gone small
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this year, though, sixty one keys. You're going to go
back to eighty eight next year because he's, uh, he
likes those big weighted keys on that eighty eight keyboard, ada,
key keyboard, piano. Anyway, he came in. He said, I
want to do some Christmas music trivia. I said, okay,
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hit me with it. And so he gave me a
couple of challenges and he beat me to one because
he didn't give me quite enough time. But we're gonna
have some music trivia for you. See what you know
about some of these songs? Where do you want to start?
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Actually, what I'll do is play a little bit of
the song that we're going to try to figure out
who made it famous?
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Okay, who made it famous?
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Something like that?
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Okay, okay, so here we go. I can name that tune.
Oh we're not sorry? Sorry, my bad wrong game? Go ahead,
start again?
Speaker 6 (51:08):
Good thing.
Speaker 4 (51:08):
We're not getting paid for this.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Now you're not you.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Okay, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
That is enough.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
What okay, this.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
Is the last year I used to go ahead, take
here we go.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
You don't forgot what I was even playing? Here we go?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Okay. Now we want to know what's the name of it?
Speaker 6 (51:42):
What is the name of this zone?
Speaker 1 (51:44):
I know this one, this one's easy, and I.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Know it starts with the W and you're dreaming about it.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
Right mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Okay, it's White Christmas.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yeah, you thought it was something else. Okay, you thought
it was you thought it was way in the Manger.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
No, I lost way in the manger recently.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Uh. And who made it famous?
Speaker 6 (52:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (52:11):
Who recorded it that? We all know?
Speaker 1 (52:13):
We hear it every year, all bing Crosby.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
Can you do it? Let me hear a little bing?
You're ready, let me get you down low here.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
Oh we know.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
Are you singing? You're not singing, you're just smiling.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Okay, we'll forget that because really they'd never recognize it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
If you were singing now, I would give it a shot,
except people heard me do Grinch and it it was.
It's not in my contract to do more than one song.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
That's true. You want to last a few more years,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
I you know, And and so I have to draw
the line here. Yeah, Bing Crosby and White Christmas one
of the most recognizable songs. And you know what I
think it is because for a lot of people it
just brings back memories, especially for anyone who has moved
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to Florida, for example, from the northeaster or from the
north or whatever they've they've decided to get to a
warmer climate. It brings back memories of there is something
magical about snow on Christmas Day, always has been, always
will be.
Speaker 4 (53:26):
And even more than that, when you hear this song,
you associate it with things in your life. Yeah, you
associate it with at the time, perhaps you've got engaged
or whatever. You associate it with only good things. There's
nothing bad will ever come from listening to that song.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
Give me, give us another song?
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Okay, how about this? This one I didn't know you
actually did.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
That was the one you beat me to the punch
that I knew the song immediately? Jingle bell rock?
Speaker 3 (54:34):
Okay, who made that? Who did that?
Speaker 1 (54:36):
That was Bobby Helms?
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Tell me about Bobby Hilmes.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
Know nothing about him. He was a one hit wonder.
This was his song. This was the song that made
him very famous, very famous. You know what got me thinking,
Marvin I was. I was listening, you know, And and
again let's separate this is this is just fun Christmas
seasonal music. It doesn't have any religious meaning. It's what
I call a moral music. It's just good music that's
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just fun. As you mentioned, it conjures up memories. Had
we been in this the era we're in now where
music is today, where for example, music was born online
and people were streaming things, it wasn't getting widespread airplay
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and there were only so many radio stations. The type
of music that are now the standards of Christmas, Bing Crosby,
White Christmas, it never would have had a moment of listening.
I don't know that any of the classic songs that
are not hymns or Christmas carols that we grew up
hearing in churches, I don't know that we would ever
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know of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, or jingle
Bell Rock or let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let
It Snow. We would not have heard of many of
these songs had they not come out in the era
of the thirties, the forties and the fifties.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
God gave us that then.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
It's crazy, though it is because those are standards that
wouldn't have a place to be played. Bing Crosby wouldn't
have an audience today. Dean Martin wouldn't have an audience today.
The only reason that Michael Boublay has an audience today
is because of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Bing
Crosby and those great singers from back in the day.
Speaker 4 (56:26):
Very interesting, Oh, yes.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Very and so I just think of the catalog of music.
Pick out another trivia song for us, all right. I
think of the catalog of music, like we're talking these songs,
and I think they never would have been heard had
they not been heard in that era.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
This is one for sure?
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Then here is Okay, I'll give you just a little
hint of the melody.
Speaker 1 (56:48):
Yeah, and that's all I need. And what is everyone
knows it? Play it? Everyone knows it, jose Feliciano, but
at least not we do.
Speaker 5 (57:07):
Come on, he.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Wants to work marry wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
From the bottom of his heart, little latin there. Come on,
Wait a minute, what if you're playing it in Israel?
Speaker 1 (57:45):
M doesn't sound very happy.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
That didn't go over too well.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
It doesn't sound very happy, that's for sure. That minor
key thing.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
There 've got Watch.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
Watch we're in the radio, Marvin. Oh okay, I'm sorry,
I can't watch. We're about we're about a minute and
a half out. You have another, you have another? Yeah,
we're not podcasting this on on YouTube? And why not
because we got a minute and a half. Give us
one more. You have one more trivia song?
Speaker 3 (58:29):
I think I do.
Speaker 4 (58:30):
Let's see. Okay, now this one. I don't know who
made it famous. I would looked it up, but I
didn't write it down.
Speaker 1 (58:36):
Okay, here, see if I can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (58:39):
You can.
Speaker 1 (58:40):
I doubt it.
Speaker 6 (58:41):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Oh that's the Christmas song. It is and the one
who made it the most famous would be mel Tormain.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (58:57):
Tom is one of the greatest scat as artists ever.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
The Velvet Frog.
Speaker 4 (59:06):
You know, he worked with Ella Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
He worked with a lot of people. Great voice, the
Jewish guy. I don't know, it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
No, well, you know you listening. It just went down.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Oh, and they know we're just having fun. We get
thirty seconds play that out. Okay, you're listening to the
Twelve Days of Preston Marvin Goldstein with me. We're having
some fun speaking of the Jewish faith when we come
back this time of year in Israel. They just threw
him a curveball, but he's gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (59:44):
Next on the Morning Show with Preston's kuy Welcome back
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to the Twelve Days of Preston. I'm Preston Scott. We're
just spending some time with you on Christmas morning and
we being my friend Marvin Goldstein.
Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
And me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
He's got a sixty one key keyboard here and a
few little sounds that he can pull out of it,
and we talked about it in the last segment a
little bit. Just having some fun, but Marvin celebrating this
time of year. A lot of people don't fully understand
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the Hanukkah thing. They don't really know what that's all about. No,
how would you describe Hanakkah to someone that's not Jewish?
Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Okay, Honikah is quite a simple celebration of light, is
what it is. It's about the eternal flame that's in
all congregations, sits in the sanctuaries. Used to be oil
in the in the light. Now it's coross electricity built.
Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
But way back they needed enough after they got kicked
out of the out of.
Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Their homeland, they thought they didn't have enough oil to
keep that eternal flame going.
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Okay, but the miracle is very simple.
Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
That it lasted eight days instead of what they thought
would be only twenty four hours. That ooops, sorry, it
was the essence of Knica is the celebration of light
and that the eternal flame will never go out, will
never be extinguished. So they celebrated eight days and nights.
The kids get a little gift the first night, something small,
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like a just something very small, and then it builds
and they anticipate. By the eighth night they're getting the
big one, okay, and it goes all the way through.
Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
So it's a different gift each night, not necessarily one
gift on day one, two gifts on day two, and
so forth.
Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
And also there's the minora, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
And in the middle of the minora is the shamas.
It's the one that lights all the rest. So you
light the middle one, and you start from right to left,
not left to right, and you go day one with
light the middle one. You go and do the first one,
second one, and then the eight days are over. It's
all lit up, going crazy. You have to let it
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go down and don't put it out, just let it
go out on its own. And that's what honokah I mean,
that's what it is. It's eight days and nights of
celebration of light. It's also in depth. It'll talk about
the flight of the Jews being kicked.
Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Out in Homeland.
Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
It's on the lunar calendar, so every year it's on
a different date. It comes sometimes to be in late November,
sometimes it who knows when in December. Just yesterday was
the first day of.
Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Hoonka, the day we're recording this as of yesterday, meaning correct,
not the day before Christmas, because this is Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Oh that's right. Sorry, okay, yes, oh wow, that makeses
my mind up.
Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
That's okay. That's the world I live in. So let's
take us take us. You have played how many concerts
in Israel, more than you can count fifty? Have you
played one at this during Honkkah?
Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
What do you what would you imagine it might sound like?
Give us us a flavor of the music that might
be heard during Honkkah?
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Why it's a real famous one.
Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Why is it that you break music sounds the way
it does. I've heard people explain it to me that
the minor words that are so prevalent evoke heartbreak and
evoke sorrow, and that the story of the Israelites, of
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Jews and Jews of course, coming from Judah and the
last remaining tribe, all the others had been wiped out
and they were all brought into the tribe of Judah.
And so that's where the word jews comes from. Is
that Is that accurate? Is that why the chords are
the minor chords and they sound so melancholy?
Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Well, the minor chords evoke the sound of mourning and long,
just long suffering. All it's not necessarily negative, it's just
wanting to be blessed by God and just kind of
a wonderment why things are so difficult, And that really
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is part of that minor minor keys. Now, a lot
of minor keys can be very beautiful too.
Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Well, yeah, but when it goes.
Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Into the major keys, the flavor is completely different. The
temperament of the accords, it's just all it's hard to
explain all this, but when you hear even a non
musician would say, this is a minor sound, here's a
major sound.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
There are certain sounds that, as we know, evoke emotion
that are not in the minor keys. But there is
almost universally an immediate awareness when something is in a
minor key of that note in all of us that
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is sorrowful about something. At least that's what it feels like.
To me.
Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
No, I mean, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Now there's a song that we all know that isn't
a major key, but it's augmented by a minor key
mixed in with it. Okay, that would be this.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
This is major, here's minor.
Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
There's another minor.
Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Major.
Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
It's a major, beautiful mented no back to major minor
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sorrowful and then beautiful actor major.
Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
So it's all mixed in there.
Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Strictly minor key would be there now if it ended
like this. Here that minor ended like this. Here's the difference.
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So the difference is it's really pulling hard, is pulling
people into feeling different modes. So musicians never musicians never
really create anything. Everything's already been created. We just rearrange it.
Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Let's let's take that last song and let's go to
break with that because it's a familiar song, and it's
it's one that reminds us, yeah, of what we're really
celebrating here, the coming of a Savior with Marvin Goldstein.
I'm Preston Scott. It is the Twelve Days of Preston.
We'll go to break. Are they simple?
Speaker 10 (01:09:20):
Merry Christmas? The Three Kings?
Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Three Kings came right in from far away, and Melchior
and Gaspar and Baltasar, three wise men out of the
east were they, And they traveled by night, and they
slept by day. For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.
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The star was so beautiful, large and clear that all
the other stars of the sky became a white mist
in the atmosphere. And by this they knew that the
coming was near of the prince foretold in the prophecy.
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Three caskets they bore on their saddle boughs, three caskets
of gold with golden keys. Their robes were of crimson silk,
with rows of bells and pomegranates and furbelows. Their turbans
like blossoming almond trees. And so the three kings rode
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into the west through the dusk of night over hill
and dell, And sometimes they nodded with beard on the breast,
and sometimes talked as they paused to rest with people
they met at some wayside where of the child that
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is born, said Baltas, good people, I pray you tell
us the news, for we in the east have seen
his star, and have ridden fast and have written far
to find and worship the King of the Jews, and
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the people answered, you ask in vain. We know of
no king but Herod the Great. They thought the wise
men were men insane, as they spurred their horses across
the plain, like writers in haste, who cannot wait. And
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when they came to Jerusalem, Herod the Great, who had
heard this thing, sent for the wise men and questioned them,
and said, go down to Bethlehem and bring me tidings
of this new king. So they rode away, and the
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stars stood still, the only one in the gray of
the morning. Yes, it stopped, and it stood still of
its own free will, right over Bethlehem, on the hill
the city of David, where Christ was born. And the
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three kings rode through the gate and the guard with
a silent street, till their horses turned and neighed as
they entered the great inn yard. But the windows were
closed and the doors were barred, and only a light
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in the stable burned and cradled there, and as scented hay,
and the air made sweet by the breadth of kind,
the little child in the manger lay the child that
would one day be the king of a kingdom not
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human but divine. Henry Wadsworth, the.
Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Three kids.
Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
We'll have another story to share next hour. It will
be our annual sharing of the production of the Man
and the Birds. But as you play We Three Kings,
what runs through your mind?
Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
The most monumental thing that could have ever happened was
those three kings, recognizing where they were headed, what they
were about to see, and just watching a baby change
the world, completely change the world as my Jewish family. Someday,
I believe we'll understand all that. I really believe it.
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Funny story, just real quick. One was me talking to
a huge congregation and was talking to a huge congregation
and saying, you know, when all my Jewish family, which
is way back in Russia, Israel, just way back, all
of them, when they know about Christ, then they'll figure
out they're not in charge.
Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Anymore, right you think you think?
Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
And then they'll go, Man, we've been worshiping everything. You
taught all of it, but we just didn't know you're
the one that gave it to us.
Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
It's like the joke about the Jewish and synagogue a
tender and the Christian church attender arguing about whether Jesus
came before and they just agreed to disagree and settle
it by saying, well, when he comes, we'll just ask him,
have you been here before?
Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Did you know you were coming down here to this mess?
Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Really have any idea? We're all gonna be blessed always
by that.
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Absolutely. We've got about three minutes before we take a
break and go to the third and final hour. We've
thrilled everybody with my singing and interpretation that both of
us offered of mister Grinch.
Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
It was good, and we'll do a holiday medley next hour.
Next hour as well. The Man of the Birds also
next hour he's going to do a he's going to
create a Christmas song, a song that he believes he's
just going to take the feelings, the thoughts, the notes
of Christmas and put him together in a song that
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he's going to create for the first time ever.
Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
A new song that I'm glad we got it recorded
because I would never be able to remember it.
Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Well. It'll be fun to try.
Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Thanks great.
Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Two minutes. Take us to break with little medley if
you like, or one song that's one of your favorites.
Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
I don't think the the the.
Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Ath we go, it's the third and final hour of
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the Twelve Days of Preston for today, this show number six,
the month of June. But we've just said, nah, we
don't want to talk about the news and so forth,
we've got news at the top and bottom of the hour. Anyway,
we want to make this show about Christmas because it
is Christmas Day. Good morning if you're just joining us,
Merry Christmas. Joining me is Marvin Goldstein, and we've got
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some fun in this final hour. I said, well, it's
the final hour, let's get to recording, and he just said,
thank God. And so here we are doing the final
hour of the show. And it just it occurred to
me as we were set to record this segment, I
would just turn you loose to just do a medley,
and you love playing Medley's just going for one song
(01:20:57):
to the next. So no, that happened.
Speaker 8 (01:22:00):
The boa looking in black.
Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
You're listening to the Twelve Days of Preston with Marvin Goldstein.
You're on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Stay with us.
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We're in the final segments here, twelve Days of Preston.
Merry Christmas. Everybody, from Marvin Goldstein and me, I'm Preston Scott.
Great to be with you. We didn't want to leave
you with just some silly program, and we didn't want
to do news. We've got that at the top and
bottom of the hour. We didn't want to ruin the
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mood by rehashing what was going on in the month
of June. So this sixth of the twelve days of
Preston happens to fall on Christmas Day. So we thought, hey,
let's do our Christmas special on Christmas Day. What a
novel idea, right, So Marvin Goldstein is with me, and
Marvin we have reached that point in the program where
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we are going to set up in just a moment
here the Man and the Birds. Now, before we do that,
do you remember the first time you heard the story
of the Man and the Birds? Did I introduce you
to that story? You'd not heard of it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Before, never you did it, and it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
It's so interesting to me because I grew up listening
to Paul Harvey do this story, and I remember when
Paul Harvey died that I wanted to bring that story
back and I wanted to keep it. Now there are
versions of Paul Harvey doing the story on YouTube. I
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embellished it a little bit. I took the story and
expanded it a little bit, and a former program director
here at the station, Jeff Wolf. Jeff put his considerable
talents to work and did the mix with the sound
effects and the music and everything that you hear, and
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what came out the other end was something that I'm
very proud of and we ad every year. I should
point out to all of you that a version of
this is available today on my blog page at WFLA
FM dot com or WFLA Panama City dot com slash Preston,
and it's in stereo. This is the mono version. The
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stereo version is spectacular. But I thought what a perfect
thing to do would be to have you take us
to the story. So, if you don't mind, lead us
in The Man and the Birds moments away here on
the twelve Days of Preston. This is a Christmas parable
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written in December nineteen fifty nine by Lewis Castle's, an
author and religion editor for the United Press International. It
is a simple but beautiful explanation of the mystery of
Christmas The Man and the Birds. Our dramatic presentation is
based on mister Castle's story. Imagine a Norman Rockwell portrait
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of winter. In any of the small towns that make
up America in the nineteen fifties, it's Christmas Eve and
families are busy getting last minute eron's done. Some weary
shoppers pick out gifts for the hard to shop for
at the Olsen Brothers five and die For others, there's
cooking to be done, so it's a walk through the
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brisk winter wind and a stop at Jerry's to pick
up a few groceries. But by six o'clock in the evening,
everything is closed. The roads are calm, save for the
occasional loved one making their way back home for the holidays.
While many look forward to the annual Christmas Eve service
at Community Church. In at least one home, there is
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a story that is about to be told. No, it's
not that story, the one that starts with twas the
night before Christmas. No, this story is not yet written.
It begins with a short drive outside of town to
a farmhouse, a modest home, warmly decorated for Christmas. The
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children's pony is stabled for the night, and it's a
good thing, because that winter wind is growing colder, and
it's bringing with it the promise of snow. Inside, the
sound of crackling wood can be heard. The kids are
playing checkers one minute, getting ready to take a bath.
The next, Mom is busy finishing tomorrow's cookies and treats,
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and there bringing in one last load of wood for
the night. His dad he looked upon Christmas as a
lot of humbug. But he wasn't a scrooge. He was
a kind and decent man, generous to his family, upright
in all his dealings with other men. In fact, when
advice was needed, folks in town always knew to come
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to the farmhouse up the road. But he didn't believe
all that stuff about incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas,
and he was too honest to pretend that that he did.
I'm truly sorry to distress you, he told his wife,
But I simply cannot understand this claim that God becomes
a man. It doesn't make any sense to me. It's
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Christmas Eve. The kids are now dressed and ready, the
hair is brushed or combed, and his wife and children
prepare to head to church for the midnight candlelight service.
They were hopeful that this might be the year. He
said yes. However, he declined to accompany them. I'd feel
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like a hypocrite, he explained. I'd rather stay home, but
I'll wait up for you, honey. Shortly after his family
drove away in the car, the expected snow began to fall.
He went to the window and watched the flurries get
heavier and heavier. If we must have Christmas, at least
(01:35:58):
it'll be a white one. He put another split log
on the fire and stoked it up just a little,
then went back to his chair by the fireside and
began to read his newspaper. His eyes grew tired. A
few minutes later, he was startled by a thudding sound.
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It was quickly followed by another, then another. He thought
that someone must be throwing snowballs at his living room window.
But that made no sense, not at this hour, not
with such heavy snow falling and strong wind blowing. When
he went to the front door to investigate, he found
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a flock of birds huddled miserably in the storm. They
had been caught in the winter weather, and in a
desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his
picture window. I can't let these poor creatures lie there
and freeze, he thought, I told you he was a
kind and decent man. But how can I help them?
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Then he remembered the barn where his children's pony was stabled.
It would provide a warm shelter, he thought. He warmed
his hands one last time and put on his coat,
tried to capture some warmth before buttoning it bottom to top.
Then came the galoshes and he trampled through the deepening
snow to the barn. He opened the door wide and
(01:37:22):
turned on a light, trying to create an illuminated guide
for the flock. But the birds didn't come in. Food
will lure them in, he thought, so he hurried back
to the house and grabbed the loaf of bread and
quickly shredded it for bread crumbs, which he then sprinkled
on the snow to make a trail into the barn.
To his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs and
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continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. Realizing the
cold was overtaking his new winged but confused charges, he
tried shoeing them into the barn by walking around and
waving his arms. They scattered in every direction except into
the warm lighted barn. They find me a strange and
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terrifying creature, he said to himself, And I can't seem
to think of any way to let him know that
they can trust me. If only I could be a
bird myself for just a few minutes, perhaps I could
lead them to safety. If only I could become of
one of them. If only I could become one of them,
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they'd understand. Just at that moment, the wind fell calm,
and the new glistening snow reflected the glorious radiance of
the night. Then church bells began to ring. He stood
(01:38:52):
silent for a while, listening to the bells peeling the
glad tidings of Christmas. Then he sank to his knees
in the know. Now I do understand, he whispered. Now
I see why you had to do it. He remained
for a while, motionless but filled with emotion. Hands lifted
(01:39:18):
hard moved. Soon, the headlights of his family arriving home
revealed a most unexpected but long hoped for gift. Christmas
was never the same for the family and the farmhouse
outside of town. How could it be? The man and
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the birds Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
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Merry Christmas from all of us to you. I hope
you've had fun as we've had fun, because we just
sit around here when we do this particular show and
just have fun. We meaning Marvin Goldstein playing the keys
courtesy of music Masters. And for a final time, thank
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you to the team at music Masters for always providing
a keyboard for us, and we appreciate that very very much.
And we turn our studio one B into the recording
studio for Marvin Goldstein. How many how many recording sessions
do you figure you have done over the years, over
(01:41:07):
the years.
Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
Yeah, well, concerts probably around concerts, twenty five hundred concerts.
Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
Okay, how many times have you stepped into a studio
to record? One hundred times, a couple hundred times.
Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
I've done fifty eight CDs, fifty of my own, eight
with other people. It's hard to tell you how many times.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
Okay, I don't know. And have you ever walked in
and found a stinker of a piano that's just not right?
Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
How did you just say that? That is exactly what
I was going to say, Yeah, exactly. There's something in
tune here. Goush anyway, go into studio. It's all set
up with this major artist and I'm accompanying doing this.
I walked in and I saw the piano look nice,
so I check out, just how what's tuned?
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Like whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:42:03):
And I go like this and play a C chord. Well,
here's a normal S chord.
Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
M great, but I kid you not. I hit the
C chord and to sound like this.
Speaker 6 (01:42:20):
What w.
Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
What's this?
Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
So the hammer is hitting two strings, two.
Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
Strings, and the rest of it was not even in
two and they said, well, just keep we keep it
in tune. I said, do you have another piano and
they went, oh, no, no, no, everybody uses this one.
Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
And they said they keep it in tune. I said,
could they not hear what you were just playing?
Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
I guess anyway, I said, we've blown here. There's a
lot of money you're charging and all this stuff. Unless
you can provide another piano in the next of two hours.
Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
This is over. It's over. We're leaving. This is impossible.
Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
So the major recording artist was on board with you on.
Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
This, Well, of course I said that just no way,
might as let's do an a cappella uses So I
said to that people you know this is better to
use as a boat anchor.
Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
And it was so that was the one. Yes, it
was so bad.
Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
It's what they do bad, what they do refunded all
the deposit Monde.
Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
Oh so you didn't record no goodbye goodbye. Wow. We're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
A budget of twenty to thirty thousand dollars and then bringing.
Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
In and that's back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
Probably, Yeah, we're talking twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
That's a lot of money back twenty five years ago
for a recording session, and it was.
Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
Something like hundred and seventy five dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
And they don't have an intune piano, and they didn't
have the sense because even back twenty five years ago
there were digital keyboards. Yes, and you could have had
a digital as a backup and you might have grumbled
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Oh no, I would not have done it.
Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
You wouldn't have done it with a weighted keyed No
possible way. Okay, because of the type of music or
why well, the samples were not like they are today
Steinway or Boozing'dorf. They just didn't sound real there talking
about an old school Kurzwhile or something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:44:25):
Probably, yeah, it's just almost like it sounds today on
this keyboard. Even though it's a great keyboard, it's just
not a grand piano.
Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
So anyway, we left that day and was it an
upright or a grand It was a grand baby grand
full size. I think it was seven feet and they
couldn't and they couldn't hear that that hammer was hitting
two well strength.
Speaker 4 (01:44:49):
They denied that it was bad, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
I went, I've done this.
Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Listen to this note.
Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
Hey, guys, I've done.
Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
This before, and you can't do this.
Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
You just and they just fight.
Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Yes, wow, Okay, it's never happened again. Well, we don't
have that problem today. But in just a few minutes,
I'm going to put you to the test. But I
want to remind everybody that what's coming is your idea,
but it's coming in the next segment, the final segment
of the show. Yeah, and that is a first time
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ever on this special. You're going to create a Christmas
song from scratch.
Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
It's going to be something like a soundtrack would be
put with a sacred, sacred film.
Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
Okay, about the Birth of Jesus. Correct, let's circle back
to that for a second. We just did a segment
The Man and the Birds, and of course that's about
the greatest gift. And right now there are people families
gathered around listening to this perhaps maybe not maybe, and
(01:45:57):
they're getting about that time to open up prece in
or two. What kind of music would you like to
to play for them as they start opening presents? We've
got I got a little less than four minutes here, right,
so if you're going to open presence, kids, kids, come on,
gather around.
Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
Hey, wake up.
Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Uncle Marvin's gonna play some music for us while we
get our presence together and get ready to open.
Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
Hey, hey, sweet you those kids up yet?
Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
Wait? Where are they go? Sleep?
Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Go wake, I've been up all them.
Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Okay, that's your family. My family's already up and there.
They've had breakfast and they've gathered around.
Speaker 4 (01:46:34):
So so how how long have they been up?
Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
Are we gonna do twenty questions?
Speaker 5 (01:46:39):
Here?
Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
Are you gonna play some music?
Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:46:41):
This is your show?
Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
Okay, here we go. So we're getting ready open presents.
Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
Right, Well, that was the idea. I set this wonderful
scene and it's all no kids, come on, come on,
this is your Let's gather around the tree. Everybody starting now,
that's not yours. No, no, we'll get to you. No, no,
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that's not your.
Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Would someone get the dog outside please?
Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
And the kids love the boxes more than the presence.
Frequently at a certain age the box means more than
the gift. And this is for the dog, I can tell.
Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
And he gets presents too.
Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
By the way, maybe in your family you don't have
a dog.
Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
We We do not do that one.
Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
No, thank you very much. Two minutes and fifteen seconds
Marvin Marvin Goldstein.
Speaker 11 (01:47:50):
Go back.
Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
To back.
Speaker 8 (01:49:21):
Disting dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 1 (01:49:50):
Dot, final segment of our Christmas special. Yeah, Merry Christmas
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from us here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott
along by Marvin Goldstein. Preston, I would love to channel
my inner burrel Ives, what a what a you were?
We were just listening to Michael Buble singing this song,
(01:50:53):
Holy Jolly Christmas. Burl Ives, though, was just iconic singing
that song from the you know it's no the voice
like it ever never will be. Yeah, and it goes
back to what we talked about earlier in the program
about there was just an era where that music could
be born and could find a place to be heard
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on a radio station, and those days for that type
of music that's gone. Now will it come back? Will
people like Michael Boublay and others that are trying to
keep that sound alive? Will they will they successfully bring
a renaissance of that kind of music? I don't know.
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The talent certainly is there, but is there an appetite
for it? I don't know that. I don't know, but
it's still a lot of fun. If I were to
ask you interesting question, thank you, I thought you know, well,
I do this for a living.
Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
I wish I thought of it.
Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
Yeah, that's why you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
M okay, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Can I ask the question now? Smart, alec?
Speaker 4 (01:52:04):
I mean trying to look at you to figure out
what the next say, nixt And I'm usually just dumbfounded
by your beautiful talent.
Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
Yeah, sure, mine is such a quantifiable talent. What's the
most requested Christmas song when you do a Christmas gig?
What song do people want to hear more than any
other song? Oh, let's do a taste of that. If
there was one song that is the one that most
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people want you to play.
Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
It would be Okay, I think I know what it is?
Speaker 12 (01:52:38):
Okay, I hear it all the time, all right, beautiful
(01:53:28):
of course, pretty much the one.
Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
What is the Christmas song that you know that is
the most difficult to play?
Speaker 4 (01:53:41):
Yeah, you gotta have some chops for this one.
Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:53:45):
I think I tried to play a little bit earlier,
but it can be played different ways. But it's you
did it slowly?
Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Be going.
Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
Because it changes the chords like crazy. So it's really
up to.
Speaker 6 (01:54:03):
Everything.
Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
I can do this, everything I can.
Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
Can they do this?
Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
I don't know if they can do that?
Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
Is it? Because there are just so many notes and
as you said, chord changes just crammed into limited time.
Speaker 4 (01:54:41):
Well, it's just a pattern. That's you have to know
the scales real well.
Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
You have to know that, you have to know how
to navigate around in this.
Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
How long would it take you to learn that?
Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
Oh no, that's hard, that's hard, almost impossible to say.
Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Well, I mean the first time you heard it, did
you just replicate it? Are you that guy? You're the
I mean I know you do that to a large degree.
You'll just take a grip a list of songs and
turn it into a medley. Yeah, but a song like that.
Speaker 4 (01:55:16):
You got to be proficient at your scales major and
minor scales. You have to have this flexibility. You have
to have an enormous amount of muscle in the fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:55:26):
Okay, and you just have to.
Speaker 4 (01:55:30):
You have to be you just have It's hard to say,
I would say if when I started to learn that
it depends on what stage of your career or your
I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Don't get the first song, you you'll quit.
Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
You go, okay, you want to hear this one. If
you've been playing three years, you go, okay. Does anybody have.
Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
It on the radio? Yeah, let's hear that.
Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
Okay, But that's hard questions about that. Everybody has different
levels they're at or ever, we'll get it.
Speaker 1 (01:55:57):
I thought it would be a good way to set
up because of the diff dificulty of what you're about
to do. Yes, you decided you wanted to try to
create a song that embraces the sacred nature of the
day that we're celebrating the birth of Jesus Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
Right, So you want to know how that can happen
or how well.
Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
You've got about twenty seconds to tell me how you
plan to do this. What is the process of what
you're about to do live unedited on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
Okay, if people have a testimony of Jesus Christ, if
they do, then they know they know how they feel
when they think about that or utter it.
Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
They know what the feeling is. Now, what is the
sound of that?
Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Without words?
Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
So that's what you're going to try to do right now.
Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
I'm going to think of.
Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
This message and just ask above what is this supposed
to sound like?
Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
Marvin Goldstein, Ladies and gentlemen, As we end our Christmas
Day edition of the Twelve Days of Preston
Speaker 8 (01:58:51):
In thinking the thing
Well, maybe for some of you, I will be the
first one to say these words. Merry Christmas. Welcome to
the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day number six,
which would mean that it's the month of June. Now,
before we tell you about the program today, we're going
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to do what we always do, and we're going to
start with God's word. You know, the song, Oh Come,
all ye faithful, behold Him born, the King of Angels.
Oh Come, let us adore him. Adoration is a word
that we love to use during the Christmas season, thanks
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largely to the classic Oh Come, all ye faithful. As
we sing, oh Come, let us adore Him, so many
of us during Christmas season spend more time thinking about
Christ and giving him adoration than at any other time
of the year. Think about that for a moment. This
is the one day of the year that literally around
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the world, everything pretty much stops, grinds to a halt.
More people go to church during Christmas than any other
time of the year. We also tend to find ourselves
singing and listening to songs about Jesus or during the
Christmas season than at any other time of the year,
and it makes sense as a result Christmas is a
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time when we love to praise Him, to honor him,
to adore him, much the way that it's described in
Philippians two verses nine, ten, and eleven. Listen to what
it says. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed
on him the name that is above every name. And
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so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should
bound in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father. While it's great that
Christ earns so much of our attention in adoration during Christmas,
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it's important to remember that we should pay that same
amount attention to him twelve months a year instead of
just one.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sure, it's e's going to get caught up in the
Christmas spirit and spend more time thinking, singing, praying, and
adoring Christ during December, But in order to have a
true relationship with Christ, we must adore we must spend
time with him throughout the year. This year, as you
move out of the Christmas season and back into the normalcy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Of life, I'm going to challenge you strive to find
ways to capture Christmas that will enable you to adore
and grow with Him every day of the year. So
let me ask what keeps you from adoring and spending
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time with Christ on a daily basis? And what steps
will you take to ensure that you spend your time
daily with Christ? All right, welcome, and we are joined
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by special music provided by Live in Studio with me
is the one, the only Marvin Goldstein. Hello, dear friend.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Hello, you're the dear friend to me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Man, you're the dear friend to all. I'm only a
friend to some others don't like me so much. You get,
you get behind a keyboard. Everybody loves you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So you got a fifty to fifty going.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I maybe, maybe, maybe, but maybe on a day like today,
it's Christmas Day, and yeah, it's just it's special you
and I get to do this. And yes, we're recording
this a few days before Christmas, but.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It feels like Christmas. It does. It does, yes, Christmas,
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And and I've got to tell you I was a
little surprised you didn't bring eighty eight keys with you.
Today you are making the magic happen with fewer than
eighty eight keys.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Sixty one keys. Man, you know why because your desk
isn't big enough.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've struggled in years past getting that eighty a key
keyboard on there having work.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So you got improvise. You just got to play the
notes you're given.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Period. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
All right, let's start you and I talking here for
just a minute before we get to the history segment,
which I'll do very quickly. Yes, when I talk about
Christmas morning, is there something that happens every Christmas morning
in your home and has over the years.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, the anticipation for children is we know why pretty much.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So do you remember those days when your kids were young?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Absolutely? I mean I stayed up till three thirty four
in the morning trying to see that all this ready,
and then they were either up early or or they
had you had to wake them up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How many how many years did you have to like,
oh my gosh, I'm going to be up in like
two and a half hours because you spent so much
time preparing the night before.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, my prayers were am I going to be awake
when they come down? Are they still?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh my gosh, can I take a nap? You're only
on gift fifty?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Did you play Christmas music in your home growing up
as as a parent with the young kids, did you
sit down at your piano and play absolutely?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Not?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Really?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Is it sort of like a painter doesn't paint his
own house, an auto mechanic doesn't work on his own car,
and you're a pianist and you're not going to really
play all that much at home.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, it almost seemed like it was self self like,
I can do this, okay, and the tension is to
be on the meaning and the children and the family.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, fair enough, okay, all right, Well as those of
you that are regular listeners again twelve days of Preston.
This is day number six in the month of June
and out again. I'll talk more about that here in
just a second. But we always do some history, and
so without playing a traditional Christmas song, I'm going to
challenge you to give me some December holiday music to
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do history too, okay, So go okay, and you're gonna
take us to the break. It was on this day,
December twenty fifth in history. In sixteen fifty one.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
By order of Puritan lawmakers in Massachusetts, any colonist caught
observing Christmas with feats or other festivities would be fined
five shillings.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Can you believe that that actually happened? In seventeen seventy six,
George Washington's army cross the Delaware on Christmas night for
surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton. The next morning,
eighteen thirty in South Carolina, the Best Friend of Charleston
becomes the first US locomotive to begin regularly scheduled passenger service.
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President Andrew John Some grants an unconditional pardon to all
Confederates involved in the Civil War that was in eighteen
sixty eight, and John Phillips Susan completes his most famous
march Stars and Stripes Forever on Christmas Day in eighteen
ninety six. That's crazy on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Look at that.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
It's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There's a good piece of trivia for you. Now today
it's going to be some storytelling. We're going to break
open some stories from the past. We're going to share
the Man and the Birds and you you did it. No,
you didn't warn me.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You must push your wrong button.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nice, try don't dump that on me. Fifteen seconds to break,
so you keep playing for another fifteen to ten seconds seconds. Yeah,
and you can tell we're doing this live. We're not really,
We're not doing it over again. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott in the Twelve Days of Preston. Yeah,
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I had to wait for the obligatory key change. Welcome
back to the Twelve Days of Preston with me. Is
a concert pianist, extraordinary, better person, Marvart Goldstein with us
this morning, and let's let let me let me lay
out first of all, we have him set up now, okay,
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and you feel free to add whatever coutre man you
want to the segments that we're talking. There you go
that that that's Marvin setting up today. It was a
bit challenglenging. Our equipment was a little challenging this morning,
and his sixty one keys provided some challenges for us.
But most notably, he needed to have a chair that
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was not movable. It needed to no longer be on wheels.
We needed one that was stationary. Please, and then do
you do you have any of the masking tape that
we could tape down the sustained pedal so it doesn't
move around. And by the chair, I'm sorry, I don't
mean to be a bother. But by any change, do
you have a cushion for the seat? Because I'm a
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bit I need to be.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Elevated just away, just a scoushigher.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you need a microphone that works, by the way.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't think so. So he started going through all
of these things, these gyrations, so that he's.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Comfortable at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, that's not true where it is not here. So
we've got him comfortable. Now, how different is it for
you to play a keyboard like this versus a full
eighty eight keys?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's really ridiculous, to tell you the truth. Yeah, because
it has no weight weighted on the keys at all.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, there's no waiting on it. It's like a cassio keyboard.
But our thanks to music masters for providing yet again
another keyboard. And you you requested this.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No, no, it's workable.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's just like but I mean, you asked for this
because you didn't want to lug the eighty eight key
and are you asked for me? That's true?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So what does that get this?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I've sixty one keys without weighted keys, I guess, but
it is it is noticeably different.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Let me ask you though, because I'm not a pianist.
I could ask my wife, but she's not here. You are,
How many sacrifices do you have to make when you're
playing something when you do not have the full repertoire
of keys available to you.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well, it'd be hard to have anyone that cannot impromptu
improvise at all if you're gonna have to access notes
that would be on on either side here of an
eighty eight and there's just sixty one, you just have
to know what not to hit.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
So is it the extreme right of the keyboard. And
in other words, the high notes and the lowest notes
are the ones missing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Actually, in this case, there are no notes missing on
the right side.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Actually, okay, so it's all on the on the left hand.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
On the left hand.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, And so you go down here. If you need
a real low note, you go, here's what's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Gonna happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, be like this.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Here's a low note C on this keyboard, right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, But then if you want.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
To go lower, you got to go and there's a
low note.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You just have to beat the tar out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And then hopefully it sounds like the right note.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hit it again. No, no, no, no, the key the
key not same one? Oh wait, didn't work?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Wait here you go.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
There it is okay, okay, sounds like the keyboards gargling.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, it sounds like you playing the piano.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That that that would be an improved version of me
playing the keyboard right there. And you consider this a
keyboard versus a piano. There's a difference, right.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Of course, there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Come on, now, I don't I don't swim in those waters.
You gotta work with.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Them, okay, okay. So in a music store you go
and you look at piano stuff. If it has no
weight for the fingers, you're in trouble. If you plead
the organ, you're probably better off because an organ does
not have weighted keys.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Either, correct. And so I do know that.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, this keyboard is workable and doable, and it fits
on the desk.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And it offers you a lot of different sounds to
play around and toy with.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, here's a piano part, but there's another one. There's
another one. You want to get married again?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Tell me this?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Heez where I come from?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
If you you as a point of reference for all
of you. Marvin was kind enough to once again offer
a concert to a donor that gave a minimum of
a five thousand dollars donation. That there are some that
gave money to Orphan Shade, and they just they did
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not want the attention. They didn't want the concert. They
appreciated the offer, but they just wanted to give the money.
And we and we respect that privacy, but and thank you.
But we made the offer because Marvin wanted to say, look,
I'm willing to do a concert, a one hour concert
wherever you like, uh in the region and in return
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for a donation Orphan Shade, and we got that donation.
You met with the gentleman and tell everybody what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, I didn't know where I'm going to play, didn't matter.
You did say in the region, would be okay, in
nearby county or whatever. So but I went to the
it's okay to mention the grove sure in town. And
the man that I met that day has his father
there as a resident. His father's in his nineties. I
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looked behind me, I didn't know who it was, but
then he raised his hands on him. The place was packed.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I thought they.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Had I don't know, got two hundred people there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Of course it was.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And so I told him, you know, I'm gonna play
everything I know, but it won't take but about five
minutes stop it. Well I did say that, by the way,
so they all didn't laugh. So they're going like, are
you guys gonna be funny or he's gonna be like
half dead? What's going on here? So anyway, I played
and I played and I played. It was an hour long,
just impromptu. Then I took requests. I knew that that
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age group would provide me the.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Songs that they know. All of them. Yeah, one was
moon River?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Okay, right?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So it wasn't just Chris miss music.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Oh not at all.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, no, hardly any was there any?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
There were none.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It was all just music from the.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Day right Broadway.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
They want Broadway, Sure, they want a fam of the
opera they wanted. I can't recall all of them, but
it was it was cool. They actually provided me the
list for the program that day.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was there one particular song that when you saw the
list you were like, yeah, it just brought a smile
to your face because you know the song well and
you love playing it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Moon River was that piece. Okay, and I started, I started,
oh wait, let me. Yeah, that was abat. Here's what
I started the concert doing. Here's exactly what I did
that brought a laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I'm here, great beautiful piano, nice and tune, and here
we go. I went, dang it, wait, hang on, I'm sorry,
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it's just.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And the guy who paid the money to orphan Chad's
looking at you, like really, I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Said, you know, I really worked on this thing. And
then I went like this, and immediately there as I
went and they went, oh, he doesn't know how to
play okay, whoa. And so it was one of the
noted the noted performances ever that I've ever given.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Here the response because of the joy, Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
My gosh, because of Wyatt and where and it was
just a joy. Yes, it definitely was a joy. I
loved it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Do you remember the first full song you played?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I think I did play Phantom of the Opera, but
I only did part of it. I went, you know,
I actually hate this keyboard.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But here we go, but our thanks to music.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, thanks for this, hear this might as well play
it like this.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
There we go? Did it right?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, now this is fine. This is a good good keyboard.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We got a minute and a half before we take
a break and when we get some news. So let's go. Well,
you're gonna have to I'll cut you. Then I'll just
you just play and then I'll just have to edit you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
My friends, so long you're cutting me.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, that's the way it works around here. Okay, we
spare no one.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You're the boss.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So now we have a minute fifteen. Oh sorry, we're
running out of time.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, so let me I know that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Let's play a little Christmas fair here. It is Christmas morning,
Merry Christmas. It's the Twelve Days of Preston with Marvin
Goldstein this morning, and and and I'll explain as we
go out to break. I've made the decision there's no
way I could play interviews and news. It's Christmas morning.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
We need a break.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And so we're going to give you a break here
this morning. And it's just going to be Christmas music
and some that you might not recognize as Christmas music
from other parts of the world. We'll share some stories,
and of course the Man and the Birds, and Marvin's
going to create a Christmas song live on the spot,
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So stay with us. It's the Twelve Days of Preston
It's the Morning Show with Preston's got the News's next. Sorry,
we got to do a little news, but more to
come here, so stay with us. Welcome back to the
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Twelve Days of Preston. I'm Preston, Jose and I are
taking a break, but we didn't want to leave you
with the normal programming that's on when we're gone, so
we have offered the twelve Days of Preston, and this
is day number six, the month of June, but we're
suspending all all of the news and the interviews and
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all of that. You're going to get the news at
the top and bottom of the hour, but we're not
going to talk about that stuff. It's Christmas Day. Merry
Christmas everybody, and joining me in studio is Marvin Goldstein,
our good friend. And how many years have we done this?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Have we've done this? Maybe six? Eight years a row
something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Sorry again the cord to play.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, sorry, go ahead. We've done this for how many years?
Have is it five years? We've done this now? I
think the special Christmas? I know we've done the we've
done this show two years. This is the second year
we've done this where we've come in and recorded a
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special Christmas show. But you've come in and we've done
something on the show live for several years.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Now, six yeah, maybe years.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, And and I just got to thinking, okay, we are.
We're at about six thirty five in the morning, give
or take a few minutes Christmas morning. It's five thirty
five in the Central time Zone. And you just described
the scene. I remember absolutely, and it's that scene of
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I just finished the dollhouse. The shingles are drying. I
remember one year making a dollhouse, and I'm I was
the idiot too. I built everything early. And here's what
I said to myself, this is gonna be so much
fun because I want to save something for Christmas Eve.
So I'm gonna do the shingles on Christmas Eve. What
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an idiot?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I think I got shingles on New Year's Eve myself.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Hundreds of shingles glude, one at a time. Oh no,
what dope.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Oh and guess what happened to me at least three
years or three years?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, where's the Scotch tape?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh no, you ran out the role?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Oh do I go to a neighbor in like it's four.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Thirty in the morning, like you're borrowing sugar or something.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So I think I had to get some Elmer's glue
to get that.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Oh no, neither, I think I actually did. Yes, oh
my goodness that I said.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All right, what are they gonna care?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right, let's let's throw a lifeline to moms and
dads out there that you were up all night doing
what you do, preparing. You know what I'm saying. I'm
not saying anything about Santa Claus one way or the other.
I'm just saying you were up all night doing what
you do, and now you're up again and you've got
to face the day bravely. So let's encourage with some
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Christmas music here. Okay, what would you play for a
parent just waking up?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Okay, oh that's a good one. Okay, put on the pedal.
Here we go, Here we go when they're just waking up.
This is very cool. But it would be like this.
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Then it goes.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Now it says stirring up.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Look it.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I hope they don't wake up. I hope they don't
wake up early.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You're talking about the kids. Now, yes, we don't have
the kids wake up.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
But then all of a sudden, there's a little stir
in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That guy stuck in the chimney.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Who is that?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh he's not. He's supposed to have been here last night.
Here we go, and now outside it's getting It's just
like light coming up. It was dark for so long.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, I've been living in the dark for so long
and so but it's so early.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I can't remember their notes. So I mean, it's like,
how can I think I'm not done any sleep?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So it comes out like this up that stink.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So no matter how you're playing it, you're hearing it
just dis joined it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I hear it, but it's not coming out that good.
So let's quit the piano and let's go over to
the refrigerator. Here we go, ready to go. I hear
I'm waking up, but I just don't want to stay up.
I'm just really tired.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But you have no choice.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I had to celebrate Hanukah. I had to do eight
nights in one. I had to do nine nights.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Of this stuff. It's crazy. Have you ever done nine nights?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I'm no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Are you Jewish?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Last time I checked, I'm not. I think you are, no, sir,
I'm not. I have a great love and appreciation, but
that's about it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Waym have you done that twenty three stuff with.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
A you know the Yeah, I've not twenty three. I've
done ancestry dot com. No, no, no, not a shred
Well all of mine are like a molecule, not just
no DNA no d no, N no A.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And no. J oh my gosh. So anyway, I don't
know what I even said.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, play some Christmas music to wake some people up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
All right, let me get the piano rolling here.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Any second now, Marmon Goldstein.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
Name by name, no.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Name, Marvin Goldstein with us this morning, twelve days of Preston.
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It is Christmas morning. Good morning everybody. You know. We
started the show with some devotional, some scripture, and I
hope that you do the same. I hope you remember
that the old saying it was. It was very trendy
for a number of years that you founded in the
stories you can't spell Christmas without Christ. And then it
kind of has faded away. Christmas certainly hasn't, but that
(28:38):
expression has. And so we want to encourage you to
just stick around the radio. We're going to be sharing
some stories. As I said the end of the show,
Marvin is going to create a first ever. He's never
He's just going to make up a Christmas song. What
inspired you to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Well, I really enjoy with the said have been given
by the Lord that I'm able to if you will
channel two what sacred means musically? Okay, So I can
just think and almost in prayer, think of how to
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communicate without words and make these the notes somehow recognizable
to those listening to it about what it's about, all.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Right, So we're going to do that in the final segments,
so don't miss that. Also in the final hour, we're
going to share the Man and the Birds, which is
our annual Christmas Day story that we make sure that
you hear.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
It's a great one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We play it on the final show of the of
the season and that was back last week, but we
want to share it on Christmas Day and and so
we'll do that as well. But we'll be back. Take
us out. We got ten seconds go.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Okay, welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This is day number six. On any other show, we
would be covering the news for the month of and
this would be the month of June. But you know what,
it's Christmas Day, So Merry Christmas. Marvin Goldstein is with
me in studio and so no, seriously, our heartfelt Merry
Christmas to you, and hope you stick around. We're just
(30:40):
going to have some laughs and play some music, and
he's going to create a song at the very end
of the show. We've got a couple stories to share,
and I wanted to go back into history and pull
something out that a lot of people have maybe heard,
but a lot of people haven't, because this is one
of those things that's kind of going away a little bit.
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The subject of Santa Claus can be a little controversial
for some. There's some that Nope, it's not part of
our home. Others are like, nah, we have some fun
with it. I was in that category when I was
a kid. My mom, well, one faithful year, my mom
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snagged some red velvet and a little white fluffy stuff
on the corner of the fireplace and then took boots
and let's just say there were ash footprints on the
carpeting matching the boots that were in the fireplace. Just
say it, bootprints in the fireplace that marched out around
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the tree. And that was, you know, and that was
to leave some evidence of you know, for me what
I knew had happened. And I took a polaroid camera
out and snapped a photo of it and insisted we
call the police because I had proof. Well, it reminded
me of this. This from the New York Sun, September
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twenty first, eighteen ninety seven. You ready, we take pleasure
in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below,
expressing at the same time our great gratification that it's
faithful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun.
All right, so this is The New York Sun, late
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eighteen hundreds. Dear editor, I am eight years old. Some
of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, if you see it in the sun, it's so.
Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
Signed Virginia O'Hanlon, one fifteen West ninety fifth Street, New
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York City. This was the editorial response from the New
York Sun, and it's one of the famous lines of
Christmas time. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He
exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist,
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and you know that they abound and give to your
life its highest beauty and joy. Lass How dreary would
the world be if there were no Santa Claus. It
would be as dreary as if there were no Virginia's
no Santa Claus. Thank God he lives, and he lives
forever a thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times
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ten thousand years from now. He will continue to make
glad the heart of childhood beautiful. And that came from
a to think that there was once a time that
a newspaper mattered to people to the extent that they
would write and asked such a question that an eight
year old wou would say, well, then, dad, I'm going
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to write the sun. And so they She penned a
little note and sent it off in the in postage,
and there it was in the late eighteen hundreds. Yes, Virginia,
there is a Santa Claus. I think what I love
about the whole idea is that, yes, there's a historical
you know, to Claus, there is the story and the
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legend and where it all came from. But I think
what I love about Christmas is the opportunity to exemplify
what God says about giving, you know, scripture says that
God so loved the world he gave his only son,
And so to me, I always look at Christmas as
an opportunity to demonstrate thinking of others first. That's to
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me the essence of the Christmas message.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
What about you, Oh, that's as beautiful. I can't imagine
even nowadays that an editorial board would come even close
to anything like that.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And they worded it so well. They kind of avoided
the issue of Santa Claus while talking about what the
spirit and thanking God for it that permeates this season.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
So that child offered those people an opportunity to see
their true thoughts of the season. The child brought that on.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
There's something magical. And whether you celebrate Santa Claus as
a lot of us remember Santa Claus and still treasure
that ideal or not, what I think everyone can agree
on is is it's a great time of year. It's
a joyful time of year, and for us it's about
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remembering and creating new memories. And I think that's what
makes Christmas music so special.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Absolutely, you know, the the idea of any time during
the year for me of giving brings me joy beyond
anything I could give myself. It just nothing means that
as much to me as giving my music. How do
you feel when somebody opens a present from you?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, I had a good friend of mine say,
you know, if I gift wrap a pen and give
it to you, it's not a gift until you open it.
If if it's not received, it's not a gift. It's
just their waiting. And so the gift of Christmas is
found when you open up and receive it. And that's,
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you know, when it's all said and done. Even the
fun songs like I'm gonna ask you to come up
with a Santa Claus song, Okay, okay, something and you
know that has a little Sanna in it. Maybe it's
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Maybe it's here comes Santa Claus.
Whatever you want to pick to take us to a break.
We're going to go to a break in about two
and a half minutes here, all right, But before we
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end this hour with a song with Marvin Goldstein, our
dear friend, I just want you to think about that
idea of Christmas being about opened up gifts, and for
some of you, just think about every gift that might
be opened under the tree, or maybe you're celebrating by yourself,
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and maybe that's just where you are right now. You
can still open up a gift. You can still open
up your heart and you can still receive that gift
that God gave man because he so loved the world,
he gave his only son, and it's up to you.
It's not a gift that's going to be forced on you.
(37:56):
It's just there waiting for you to open it up.
But as we go to break, let's uh, let's celebrate
the big guy, the jolly Saint Nicholas himself.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
K Kringle, thanks for that suggestion.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
It's the Twelve Days of Preston. We'll be back with
more with Marvin Goldstein, some stories, some fun right after
the news. Stay with us, Welcome back to the Twelve
(40:39):
Days of Preston. This is show number six the month
of June. But we're not even considering talking about any
of the news or events of the month of June.
You just heard a little bit of news. We're going
to keep focused on Christmas. It's Christmas Day. Merry Christmas,
everybody enjoying me in studio for our Christmas special concert.
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Panist Extraordinary Marvin Goldstein, maybe more importantly than any of that.
Friend of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Is kind of snow here again.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I hope not. I don't want what we had last year.
That was a little intense.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I saw people sliding down the street. Oh yeah, I
mean weird, and the schools close, people out west.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Going what yeah. But here's what they didn't know. What
they didn't know when they were making fun of us,
is that what happened was we had snow and it
was beautiful, beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful and you could
drive without any problem. But then it melted a little bit,
and then the ice because it stayed so cold that
it then froze over and we had black ice on
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roads all over the place. And even people in the north,
in the Midwest, in the Northeast understand black ice. You
don't drive on black ice.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
A guy in my neighborhood said to me, I couldn't
believe this. He said, I knew it was gonna snow.
My little kids just it was amazing. I don't know
how long it was gonna last. So we went on
Amazon and we bought sleds that came in the next day,
and they had a slope from where the street met
the next street and just sliding down. Yeah, I mean
(42:20):
there were no traffic, no traffic either.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Absolutely brilliant, but yeah, that was And and I reminded
a few people that were making fun of of our scenario,
and I was like, uh, we had black eyes and
they went, oh, and then you you factor black eyes
with people that don't know how to drive in snow.
That was smart for people to stay out there.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
There was mega profit for the body shops. I'll tell
you that.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I don't doubt that at all. Now, we started with
Frosty the Snowman this hour because you came in here
armed and prepared to defeat an old foe. It was
a few years ago that I mentioned and you're a
mean one, mister Grinch, and I hummed the tune and
(43:05):
he went, I don't know it like that fact. In fact,
he said, I don't I don't really know it.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
But can you get somebody who knows how to sing?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And you've been and you've been on a mission to
learn that song.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
I don't know why I never did it, but oh
my gosh, but when you sang it, it was unrecognizable.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well, that's not surprising. Yeah, no, I know that, but
but you came prepared.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Now, I'm pretty good on it. If you you should
do some kind of something with.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
This, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do a couple
of verses. Yes, And we've not rehearsed this at all. No,
and so I may have to have you play the
intro a couple of times. But we're gonna try this,
and we're gonna we're gonna have some fun with it.
There will be no special effects. There's not gonna be
a cut take too. This is gonna be one take.
(43:57):
And if I butcher it, I butcher it, and we're
all gonna laugh at at it. Well, we're probably all
going to laugh anyway.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
But you know, when you do your show, you're on
on there's no retails.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
No, yeah, you just do it well.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Me too.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
But together, this could be This could be a Grinch performance.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
This could be a train wreck, is what it could be.
But that's okay. I'm willing to do it well because
it's Christmas Day and it's free and it's for the kids, right,
all right, So here we go, second hour, Twelve Days
of preston Christmas Day, Merry Christmas everybody, and for you
kids out there listening, because this is a safe arbor
for you, we present at least some kind of version
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of you're a mean one, mister.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Grinch, with Marvin and Preston.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Preston and Marvin, let's talk about.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That's mean Grinch.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
You're a mean one, mister Grinch. You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus. You're as charming as
an heel. Mister gree Inch, You're a bad banana with
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a greasy black peel. You're a vile one, mister Grinch.
You've got termites in your smile. You've got all the
tender sweetness of a seat sick crocodile of mister.
Speaker 7 (45:39):
Greench Your one foul one friends don't have none.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty nine and a
half football. You're a monster, mister Grinch. We're gonna just
keep going. Your heart's in him the hole.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
This is a hit.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
You're a gunner. You got garlic. Wait, you got garnic
in your soul, mister grig My lyric sheet is really bad.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Come on, give it going one more time. Here we
go you're a bad banana mister. Nah, that's they've got
this all wrong. They've got the I looked up the
lyrics sheet and they're just it was terrible. Hold on,
I'm gonna find a better lyric sheet. You just keep playing.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
I will.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
I can make up some words. You're a good one,
rest and Scott. Yeah that's not it.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, No, you're a foul one. Mister grinch. Here we go.
You're in nasty, lasty skunk. Your heart is full of
unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk, mister greed.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
The three words that best describe you are as follows.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
And I quote stink, stank, stunk. You didn't learn that
part of the song, the little interlude there, But uh
I did it right? Yeah, not really, but that's okay.
You want to try another verse, not really do it? Okay?
You're a rotter, mister crunch. You're the king of sinal sots.
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Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots.
Mister Greech, your soul is an appalling dump heap. And
that's where we kind of get lost, because they play
an interlude there. No, I don't blame yeah, you certainly,
don't you nause ates me, mister Grinch with an auseous soup. Bernos,
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you're a crooked jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss.
Mister Green, you're a three decker sauer Kraut and toadstool
sandwich with arsenic. Take us to break. We got thirty seconds.
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It's the Twelve Days of Precedent, and I profoundly regret
what I just put you through.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
Me too.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
We'll be back more with more with Marvin Goldstein on
the Twelve Days of Preston. Don't you leave us? You'll
keep playing. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston
(49:35):
our second segment in this second hour, and we simply
say Merry Christmas to you if you're just waking up
and joining us. I am joined by Marvin Goldstein, and
he has brought a keyboard end courtesy of Music Masters.
Our thanks to Lesson everybody though over there at music Masters,
thank you very much. We appreciate it. He's gone small
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this year, though, sixty one keys. You're going to go
back to eighty eight next year because he's, uh, he
likes those big weighted keys on that eighty eight keyboard, ada,
key keyboard, piano. Anyway, he came in. He said, I
want to do some Christmas music trivia. I said, okay,
(50:17):
hit me with it. And so he gave me a
couple of challenges and he beat me to one because
he didn't give me quite enough time. But we're gonna
have some music trivia for you. See what you know
about some of these songs? Where do you want to start?
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Actually, what I'll do is play a little bit of
the song that we're going to try to figure out
who made it famous?
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Okay, who made it famous?
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Something like that?
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Okay, okay, so here we go. I can name that tune.
Oh we're not sorry? Sorry, my bad wrong game? Go ahead,
start again?
Speaker 6 (51:08):
Good thing.
Speaker 4 (51:08):
We're not getting paid for this.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Now you're not you.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Okay, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
That is enough.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
What okay, this.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
Is the last year I used to go ahead, take
here we go.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
You don't forgot what I was even playing? Here we go?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Okay. Now we want to know what's the name of it?
Speaker 6 (51:42):
What is the name of this zone?
Speaker 1 (51:44):
I know this one, this one's easy, and I.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
Know it starts with the W and you're dreaming about it.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
Right mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Okay, it's White Christmas.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Yeah, you thought it was something else. Okay, you thought
it was you thought it was way in the Manger.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
No, I lost way in the manger recently.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Uh. And who made it famous?
Speaker 6 (52:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (52:11):
Who recorded it that? We all know?
Speaker 1 (52:13):
We hear it every year, all bing Crosby.
Speaker 4 (52:17):
Can you do it? Let me hear a little bing?
You're ready, let me get you down low here.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
Oh we know.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
Are you singing? You're not singing, you're just smiling.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Okay, we'll forget that because really they'd never recognize it.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
If you were singing now, I would give it a shot,
except people heard me do Grinch and it it was.
It's not in my contract to do more than one song.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
That's true. You want to last a few more years,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
I you know, And and so I have to draw
the line here. Yeah, Bing Crosby and White Christmas one
of the most recognizable songs. And you know what I
think it is because for a lot of people it
just brings back memories, especially for anyone who has moved
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to Florida, for example, from the northeaster or from the
north or whatever they've they've decided to get to a
warmer climate. It brings back memories of there is something
magical about snow on Christmas Day, always has been, always
will be.
Speaker 4 (53:26):
And even more than that, when you hear this song,
you associate it with things in your life. Yeah, you
associate it with at the time, perhaps you've got engaged
or whatever. You associate it with only good things. There's
nothing bad will ever come from listening to that song.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
Give me, give us another song?
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Okay, how about this? This one I didn't know you
actually did.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
That was the one you beat me to the punch
that I knew the song immediately? Jingle bell rock?
Speaker 3 (54:34):
Okay, who made that? Who did that?
Speaker 1 (54:36):
That was Bobby Helms?
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Tell me about Bobby Hilmes.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
Know nothing about him. He was a one hit wonder.
This was his song. This was the song that made
him very famous, very famous. You know what got me thinking,
Marvin I was. I was listening, you know, And and
again let's separate this is this is just fun Christmas
seasonal music. It doesn't have any religious meaning. It's what
I call a moral music. It's just good music that's
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just fun. As you mentioned, it conjures up memories. Had
we been in this the era we're in now where
music is today, where for example, music was born online
and people were streaming things, it wasn't getting widespread airplay
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and there were only so many radio stations. The type
of music that are now the standards of Christmas, Bing Crosby,
White Christmas, it never would have had a moment of listening.
I don't know that any of the classic songs that
are not hymns or Christmas carols that we grew up
hearing in churches, I don't know that we would ever
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know of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, or jingle
Bell Rock or let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let
It Snow. We would not have heard of many of
these songs had they not come out in the era
of the thirties, the forties and the fifties.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
God gave us that then.
Speaker 1 (56:04):
It's crazy, though it is because those are standards that
wouldn't have a place to be played. Bing Crosby wouldn't
have an audience today. Dean Martin wouldn't have an audience today.
The only reason that Michael Boublay has an audience today
is because of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Bing
Crosby and those great singers from back in the day.
Speaker 4 (56:26):
Very interesting, Oh, yes.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
Very and so I just think of the catalog of music.
Pick out another trivia song for us, all right. I
think of the catalog of music, like we're talking these songs,
and I think they never would have been heard had
they not been heard in that era.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
This is one for sure?
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Then here is Okay, I'll give you just a little
hint of the melody.
Speaker 1 (56:48):
Yeah, and that's all I need. And what is everyone
knows it? Play it? Everyone knows it, jose Feliciano, but
at least not we do.
Speaker 5 (57:07):
Come on, he.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Wants to work marry wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
From the bottom of his heart, little latin there. Come on,
Wait a minute, what if you're playing it in Israel?
Speaker 1 (57:45):
M doesn't sound very happy.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
That didn't go over too well.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
It doesn't sound very happy, that's for sure. That minor
key thing.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
There 've got Watch.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
Watch we're in the radio, Marvin. Oh okay, I'm sorry,
I can't watch. We're about we're about a minute and
a half out. You have another, you have another? Yeah,
we're not podcasting this on on YouTube? And why not
because we got a minute and a half. Give us
one more. You have one more trivia song?
Speaker 3 (58:29):
I think I do.
Speaker 4 (58:30):
Let's see. Okay, now this one. I don't know who
made it famous. I would looked it up, but I
didn't write it down.
Speaker 1 (58:36):
Okay, here, see if I can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (58:39):
You can.
Speaker 1 (58:40):
I doubt it.
Speaker 6 (58:41):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Oh that's the Christmas song. It is and the one
who made it the most famous would be mel Tormain.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (58:57):
Tom is one of the greatest scat as artists ever.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
The Velvet Frog.
Speaker 4 (59:06):
You know, he worked with Ella Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1 (59:09):
He worked with a lot of people. Great voice, the
Jewish guy. I don't know, it's perfect.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
No, well, you know you listening. It just went down.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Oh, and they know we're just having fun. We get
thirty seconds play that out. Okay, you're listening to the
Twelve Days of Preston Marvin Goldstein with me. We're having
some fun speaking of the Jewish faith when we come
back this time of year in Israel. They just threw
him a curveball, but he's gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (59:44):
Next on the Morning Show with Preston's kuy Welcome back
(01:00:17):
to the Twelve Days of Preston. I'm Preston Scott. We're
just spending some time with you on Christmas morning and
we being my friend Marvin Goldstein.
Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
And me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
He's got a sixty one key keyboard here and a
few little sounds that he can pull out of it,
and we talked about it in the last segment a
little bit. Just having some fun, but Marvin celebrating this
time of year. A lot of people don't fully understand
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the Hanukkah thing. They don't really know what that's all about. No,
how would you describe Hanakkah to someone that's not Jewish?
Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Okay, Honikah is quite a simple celebration of light, is
what it is. It's about the eternal flame that's in
all congregations, sits in the sanctuaries. Used to be oil
in the in the light. Now it's coross electricity built.
Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
But way back they needed enough after they got kicked
out of the out of.
Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
Their homeland, they thought they didn't have enough oil to
keep that eternal flame going.
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Okay, but the miracle is very simple.
Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
That it lasted eight days instead of what they thought
would be only twenty four hours. That ooops, sorry, it
was the essence of Knica is the celebration of light
and that the eternal flame will never go out, will
never be extinguished. So they celebrated eight days and nights.
The kids get a little gift the first night, something small,
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like a just something very small, and then it builds
and they anticipate. By the eighth night they're getting the
big one, okay, and it goes all the way through.
Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
So it's a different gift each night, not necessarily one
gift on day one, two gifts on day two, and
so forth.
Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
And also there's the minora, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
And in the middle of the minora is the shamas.
It's the one that lights all the rest. So you
light the middle one, and you start from right to left,
not left to right, and you go day one with
light the middle one. You go and do the first one,
second one, and then the eight days are over. It's
all lit up, going crazy. You have to let it
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go down and don't put it out, just let it
go out on its own. And that's what honokah I mean,
that's what it is. It's eight days and nights of
celebration of light. It's also in depth. It'll talk about
the flight of the Jews being kicked.
Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Out in Homeland.
Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
It's on the lunar calendar, so every year it's on
a different date. It comes sometimes to be in late November,
sometimes it who knows when in December. Just yesterday was
the first day of.
Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Hoonka, the day we're recording this as of yesterday, meaning correct,
not the day before Christmas, because this is Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Oh that's right. Sorry, okay, yes, oh wow, that makeses
my mind up.
Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
That's okay. That's the world I live in. So let's
take us take us. You have played how many concerts
in Israel, more than you can count fifty? Have you
played one at this during Honkkah?
Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
What do you what would you imagine it might sound like?
Give us us a flavor of the music that might
be heard during Honkkah?
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Why it's a real famous one.
Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Why is it that you break music sounds the way
it does. I've heard people explain it to me that
the minor words that are so prevalent evoke heartbreak and
evoke sorrow, and that the story of the Israelites, of
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Jews and Jews of course, coming from Judah and the
last remaining tribe, all the others had been wiped out
and they were all brought into the tribe of Judah.
And so that's where the word jews comes from. Is
that Is that accurate? Is that why the chords are
the minor chords and they sound so melancholy?
Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Well, the minor chords evoke the sound of mourning and long,
just long suffering. All it's not necessarily negative, it's just
wanting to be blessed by God and just kind of
a wonderment why things are so difficult, And that really
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is part of that minor minor keys. Now, a lot
of minor keys can be very beautiful too.
Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Well, yeah, but when it goes.
Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Into the major keys, the flavor is completely different. The
temperament of the accords, it's just all it's hard to
explain all this, but when you hear even a non
musician would say, this is a minor sound, here's a
major sound.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
There are certain sounds that, as we know, evoke emotion
that are not in the minor keys. But there is
almost universally an immediate awareness when something is in a
minor key of that note in all of us that
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is sorrowful about something. At least that's what it feels like.
To me.
Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
No, I mean, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Now there's a song that we all know that isn't
a major key, but it's augmented by a minor key
mixed in with it. Okay, that would be this.
Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
This is major, here's minor.
Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
There's another minor.
Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Major.
Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
It's a major, beautiful mented no back to major minor
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sorrowful and then beautiful actor major.
Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
So it's all mixed in there.
Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Strictly minor key would be there now if it ended
like this. Here that minor ended like this. Here's the difference.
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So the difference is it's really pulling hard, is pulling
people into feeling different modes. So musicians never musicians never
really create anything. Everything's already been created. We just rearrange it.
Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Let's let's take that last song and let's go to
break with that because it's a familiar song, and it's
it's one that reminds us, yeah, of what we're really
celebrating here, the coming of a Savior with Marvin Goldstein.
I'm Preston Scott. It is the Twelve Days of Preston.
We'll go to break. Are they simple?
Speaker 10 (01:09:20):
Merry Christmas? The Three Kings?
Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Three Kings came right in from far away, and Melchior
and Gaspar and Baltasar, three wise men out of the
east were they, And they traveled by night, and they
slept by day. For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.
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The star was so beautiful, large and clear that all
the other stars of the sky became a white mist
in the atmosphere. And by this they knew that the
coming was near of the prince foretold in the prophecy.
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Three caskets they bore on their saddle boughs, three caskets
of gold with golden keys. Their robes were of crimson silk,
with rows of bells and pomegranates and furbelows. Their turbans
like blossoming almond trees. And so the three kings rode
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into the west through the dusk of night over hill
and dell, And sometimes they nodded with beard on the breast,
and sometimes talked as they paused to rest with people
they met at some wayside where of the child that
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is born, said Baltas, good people, I pray you tell
us the news, for we in the east have seen
his star, and have ridden fast and have written far
to find and worship the King of the Jews, and
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the people answered, you ask in vain. We know of
no king but Herod the Great. They thought the wise
men were men insane, as they spurred their horses across
the plain, like writers in haste, who cannot wait. And
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when they came to Jerusalem, Herod the Great, who had
heard this thing, sent for the wise men and questioned them,
and said, go down to Bethlehem and bring me tidings
of this new king. So they rode away, and the
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stars stood still, the only one in the gray of
the morning. Yes, it stopped, and it stood still of
its own free will, right over Bethlehem, on the hill
the city of David, where Christ was born. And the
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three kings rode through the gate and the guard with
a silent street, till their horses turned and neighed as
they entered the great inn yard. But the windows were
closed and the doors were barred, and only a light
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in the stable burned and cradled there, and as scented hay,
and the air made sweet by the breadth of kind,
the little child in the manger lay the child that
would one day be the king of a kingdom not
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human but divine. Henry Wadsworth, the.
Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Three kids.
Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
We'll have another story to share next hour. It will
be our annual sharing of the production of the Man
and the Birds. But as you play We Three Kings,
what runs through your mind?
Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
The most monumental thing that could have ever happened was
those three kings, recognizing where they were headed, what they
were about to see, and just watching a baby change
the world, completely change the world as my Jewish family. Someday,
I believe we'll understand all that. I really believe it.
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Funny story, just real quick. One was me talking to
a huge congregation and was talking to a huge congregation
and saying, you know, when all my Jewish family, which
is way back in Russia, Israel, just way back, all
of them, when they know about Christ, then they'll figure
out they're not in charge.
Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Anymore, right you think you think?
Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
And then they'll go, Man, we've been worshiping everything. You
taught all of it, but we just didn't know you're
the one that gave it to us.
Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
It's like the joke about the Jewish and synagogue a
tender and the Christian church attender arguing about whether Jesus
came before and they just agreed to disagree and settle
it by saying, well, when he comes, we'll just ask him,
have you been here before?
Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Did you know you were coming down here to this mess?
Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Really have any idea? We're all gonna be blessed always
by that.
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Absolutely. We've got about three minutes before we take a
break and go to the third and final hour. We've
thrilled everybody with my singing and interpretation that both of
us offered of mister Grinch.
Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
It was good, and we'll do a holiday medley next hour.
Next hour as well. The Man of the Birds also
next hour he's going to do a he's going to
create a Christmas song, a song that he believes he's
just going to take the feelings, the thoughts, the notes
of Christmas and put him together in a song that
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he's going to create for the first time ever.
Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
A new song that I'm glad we got it recorded
because I would never be able to remember it.
Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Well. It'll be fun to try.
Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Thanks great.
Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Two minutes. Take us to break with little medley if
you like, or one song that's one of your favorites.
Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
I don't think the the the.
Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Ath we go, it's the third and final hour of
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the Twelve Days of Preston for today, this show number six,
the month of June. But we've just said, nah, we
don't want to talk about the news and so forth,
we've got news at the top and bottom of the hour. Anyway,
we want to make this show about Christmas because it
is Christmas Day. Good morning if you're just joining us,
Merry Christmas. Joining me is Marvin Goldstein, and we've got
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some fun in this final hour. I said, well, it's
the final hour, let's get to recording, and he just said,
thank God. And so here we are doing the final
hour of the show. And it just it occurred to
me as we were set to record this segment, I
would just turn you loose to just do a medley,
and you love playing Medley's just going for one song
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to the next. So no, that happened.
Speaker 8 (01:22:00):
The boa looking in black.
Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
You're listening to the Twelve Days of Preston with Marvin Goldstein.
You're on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Stay with us.
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We're in the final segments here, twelve Days of Preston.
Merry Christmas. Everybody, from Marvin Goldstein and me, I'm Preston Scott.
Great to be with you. We didn't want to leave
you with just some silly program, and we didn't want
to do news. We've got that at the top and
bottom of the hour. We didn't want to ruin the
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mood by rehashing what was going on in the month
of June. So this sixth of the twelve days of
Preston happens to fall on Christmas Day. So we thought, hey,
let's do our Christmas special on Christmas Day. What a
novel idea, right, So Marvin Goldstein is with me, and
Marvin we have reached that point in the program where
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we are going to set up in just a moment
here the Man and the Birds. Now, before we do that,
do you remember the first time you heard the story
of the Man and the Birds? Did I introduce you
to that story? You'd not heard of it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Before, never you did it, and it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
It's so interesting to me because I grew up listening
to Paul Harvey do this story, and I remember when
Paul Harvey died that I wanted to bring that story
back and I wanted to keep it. Now there are
versions of Paul Harvey doing the story on YouTube. I
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embellished it a little bit. I took the story and
expanded it a little bit, and a former program director
here at the station, Jeff Wolf. Jeff put his considerable
talents to work and did the mix with the sound
effects and the music and everything that you hear, and
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what came out the other end was something that I'm
very proud of and we ad every year. I should
point out to all of you that a version of
this is available today on my blog page at WFLA
FM dot com or WFLA Panama City dot com slash Preston,
and it's in stereo. This is the mono version. The
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stereo version is spectacular. But I thought what a perfect
thing to do would be to have you take us
to the story. So, if you don't mind, lead us
in The Man and the Birds moments away here on
the twelve Days of Preston. This is a Christmas parable
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written in December nineteen fifty nine by Lewis Castle's, an
author and religion editor for the United Press International. It
is a simple but beautiful explanation of the mystery of
Christmas The Man and the Birds. Our dramatic presentation is
based on mister Castle's story. Imagine a Norman Rockwell portrait
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of winter. In any of the small towns that make
up America in the nineteen fifties, it's Christmas Eve and
families are busy getting last minute eron's done. Some weary
shoppers pick out gifts for the hard to shop for
at the Olsen Brothers five and die For others, there's
cooking to be done, so it's a walk through the
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brisk winter wind and a stop at Jerry's to pick
up a few groceries. But by six o'clock in the evening,
everything is closed. The roads are calm, save for the
occasional loved one making their way back home for the holidays.
While many look forward to the annual Christmas Eve service
at Community Church. In at least one home, there is
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a story that is about to be told. No, it's
not that story, the one that starts with twas the
night before Christmas. No, this story is not yet written.
It begins with a short drive outside of town to
a farmhouse, a modest home, warmly decorated for Christmas. The
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children's pony is stabled for the night, and it's a
good thing, because that winter wind is growing colder, and
it's bringing with it the promise of snow. Inside, the
sound of crackling wood can be heard. The kids are
playing checkers one minute, getting ready to take a bath.
The next, Mom is busy finishing tomorrow's cookies and treats,
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and there bringing in one last load of wood for
the night. His dad he looked upon Christmas as a
lot of humbug. But he wasn't a scrooge. He was
a kind and decent man, generous to his family, upright
in all his dealings with other men. In fact, when
advice was needed, folks in town always knew to come
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to the farmhouse up the road. But he didn't believe
all that stuff about incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas,
and he was too honest to pretend that that he did.
I'm truly sorry to distress you, he told his wife,
But I simply cannot understand this claim that God becomes
a man. It doesn't make any sense to me. It's
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Christmas Eve. The kids are now dressed and ready, the
hair is brushed or combed, and his wife and children
prepare to head to church for the midnight candlelight service.
They were hopeful that this might be the year. He
said yes. However, he declined to accompany them. I'd feel
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like a hypocrite, he explained. I'd rather stay home, but
I'll wait up for you, honey. Shortly after his family
drove away in the car, the expected snow began to fall.
He went to the window and watched the flurries get
heavier and heavier. If we must have Christmas, at least
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it'll be a white one. He put another split log
on the fire and stoked it up just a little,
then went back to his chair by the fireside and
began to read his newspaper. His eyes grew tired. A
few minutes later, he was startled by a thudding sound.
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It was quickly followed by another, then another. He thought
that someone must be throwing snowballs at his living room window.
But that made no sense, not at this hour, not
with such heavy snow falling and strong wind blowing. When
he went to the front door to investigate, he found
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a flock of birds huddled miserably in the storm. They
had been caught in the winter weather, and in a
desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his
picture window. I can't let these poor creatures lie there
and freeze, he thought, I told you he was a
kind and decent man. But how can I help them?
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Then he remembered the barn where his children's pony was stabled.
It would provide a warm shelter, he thought. He warmed
his hands one last time and put on his coat,
tried to capture some warmth before buttoning it bottom to top.
Then came the galoshes and he trampled through the deepening
snow to the barn. He opened the door wide and
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turned on a light, trying to create an illuminated guide
for the flock. But the birds didn't come in. Food
will lure them in, he thought, so he hurried back
to the house and grabbed the loaf of bread and
quickly shredded it for bread crumbs, which he then sprinkled
on the snow to make a trail into the barn.
To his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs and
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continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. Realizing the
cold was overtaking his new winged but confused charges, he
tried shoeing them into the barn by walking around and
waving his arms. They scattered in every direction except into
the warm lighted barn. They find me a strange and
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terrifying creature, he said to himself, And I can't seem
to think of any way to let him know that
they can trust me. If only I could be a
bird myself for just a few minutes, perhaps I could
lead them to safety. If only I could become of
one of them. If only I could become one of them,
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they'd understand. Just at that moment, the wind fell calm,
and the new glistening snow reflected the glorious radiance of
the night. Then church bells began to ring. He stood
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silent for a while, listening to the bells peeling the
glad tidings of Christmas. Then he sank to his knees
in the know. Now I do understand, he whispered. Now
I see why you had to do it. He remained
for a while, motionless but filled with emotion. Hands lifted
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hard moved. Soon, the headlights of his family arriving home
revealed a most unexpected but long hoped for gift. Christmas
was never the same for the family and the farmhouse
outside of town. How could it be? The man and
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the birds Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
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Merry Christmas from all of us to you. I hope
you've had fun as we've had fun, because we just
sit around here when we do this particular show and
just have fun. We meaning Marvin Goldstein playing the keys
courtesy of music Masters. And for a final time, thank
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you to the team at music Masters for always providing
a keyboard for us, and we appreciate that very very much.
And we turn our studio one B into the recording
studio for Marvin Goldstein. How many how many recording sessions
do you figure you have done over the years, over
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the years.
Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
Yeah, well, concerts probably around concerts, twenty five hundred concerts.
Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
Okay, how many times have you stepped into a studio
to record? One hundred times, a couple hundred times.
Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
I've done fifty eight CDs, fifty of my own, eight
with other people. It's hard to tell you how many times.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
Okay, I don't know. And have you ever walked in
and found a stinker of a piano that's just not right?
Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
How did you just say that? That is exactly what
I was going to say, Yeah, exactly. There's something in
tune here. Goush anyway, go into studio. It's all set
up with this major artist and I'm accompanying doing this.
I walked in and I saw the piano look nice,
so I check out, just how what's tuned?
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Like whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:42:03):
And I go like this and play a C chord. Well,
here's a normal S chord.
Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
M great, but I kid you not. I hit the
C chord and to sound like this.
Speaker 6 (01:42:20):
What w.
Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
What's this?
Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
So the hammer is hitting two strings, two.
Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
Strings, and the rest of it was not even in
two and they said, well, just keep we keep it
in tune. I said, do you have another piano and
they went, oh, no, no, no, everybody uses this one.
Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
And they said they keep it in tune. I said,
could they not hear what you were just playing?
Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
I guess anyway, I said, we've blown here. There's a
lot of money you're charging and all this stuff. Unless
you can provide another piano in the next of two hours.
Speaker 3 (01:43:04):
This is over. It's over. We're leaving. This is impossible.
Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
So the major recording artist was on board with you on.
Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
This, Well, of course I said that just no way,
might as let's do an a cappella uses So I
said to that people you know this is better to
use as a boat anchor.
Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
And it was so that was the one. Yes, it
was so bad.
Speaker 4 (01:43:28):
It's what they do bad, what they do refunded all
the deposit Monde.
Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
Oh so you didn't record no goodbye goodbye. Wow. We're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
A budget of twenty to thirty thousand dollars and then bringing.
Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
In and that's back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
Probably, Yeah, we're talking twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
That's a lot of money back twenty five years ago
for a recording session, and it was.
Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
Something like hundred and seventy five dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
And they don't have an intune piano, and they didn't
have the sense because even back twenty five years ago
there were digital keyboards. Yes, and you could have had
a digital as a backup and you might have grumbled
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Oh no, I would not have done it.
Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
You wouldn't have done it with a weighted keyed No
possible way. Okay, because of the type of music or
why well, the samples were not like they are today
Steinway or Boozing'dorf. They just didn't sound real there talking
about an old school Kurzwhile or something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:44:25):
Probably, yeah, it's just almost like it sounds today on
this keyboard. Even though it's a great keyboard, it's just
not a grand piano.
Speaker 1 (01:44:33):
Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
So anyway, we left that day and was it an
upright or a grand It was a grand baby grand
full size. I think it was seven feet and they
couldn't and they couldn't hear that that hammer was hitting
two well strength.
Speaker 4 (01:44:49):
They denied that it was bad, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
I went, I've done this.
Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Listen to this note.
Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
Hey, guys, I've done.
Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
This before, and you can't do this.
Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
You just and they just fight.
Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Yes, wow, Okay, it's never happened again. Well, we don't
have that problem today. But in just a few minutes,
I'm going to put you to the test. But I
want to remind everybody that what's coming is your idea,
but it's coming in the next segment, the final segment
of the show. Yeah, and that is a first time
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ever on this special. You're going to create a Christmas
song from scratch.
Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
It's going to be something like a soundtrack would be
put with a sacred, sacred film.
Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
Okay, about the Birth of Jesus. Correct, let's circle back
to that for a second. We just did a segment
The Man and the Birds, and of course that's about
the greatest gift. And right now there are people families
gathered around listening to this perhaps maybe not maybe, and
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they're getting about that time to open up prece in
or two. What kind of music would you like to
to play for them as they start opening presents? We've
got I got a little less than four minutes here, right,
so if you're going to open presence, kids, kids, come on,
gather around.
Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
Hey, wake up.
Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Uncle Marvin's gonna play some music for us while we
get our presence together and get ready to open.
Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
Hey, hey, sweet you those kids up yet?
Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
Wait? Where are they go? Sleep?
Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Go wake, I've been up all them.
Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Okay, that's your family. My family's already up and there.
They've had breakfast and they've gathered around.
Speaker 4 (01:46:34):
So so how how long have they been up?
Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
Are we gonna do twenty questions?
Speaker 5 (01:46:39):
Here?
Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
Are you gonna play some music?
Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:46:41):
This is your show?
Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
Okay, here we go. So we're getting ready open presents.
Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
Right, Well, that was the idea. I set this wonderful
scene and it's all no kids, come on, come on,
this is your Let's gather around the tree. Everybody starting now,
that's not yours. No, no, we'll get to you. No, no,
(01:47:12):
that's not your.
Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Would someone get the dog outside please?
Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
And the kids love the boxes more than the presence.
Frequently at a certain age the box means more than
the gift. And this is for the dog, I can tell.
Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
And he gets presents too.
Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
By the way, maybe in your family you don't have
a dog.
Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
We We do not do that one.
Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
No, thank you very much. Two minutes and fifteen seconds
Marvin Marvin Goldstein.
Speaker 11 (01:47:50):
Go back.
Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
To back.
Speaker 8 (01:49:21):
Disting dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 1 (01:49:50):
Dot, final segment of our Christmas special. Yeah, Merry Christmas
(01:50:32):
from us here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott
along by Marvin Goldstein. Preston, I would love to channel
my inner burrel Ives, what a what a you were?
We were just listening to Michael Buble singing this song,
(01:50:53):
Holy Jolly Christmas. Burl Ives, though, was just iconic singing
that song from the you know it's no the voice
like it ever never will be. Yeah, and it goes
back to what we talked about earlier in the program
about there was just an era where that music could
be born and could find a place to be heard
(01:51:15):
on a radio station, and those days for that type
of music that's gone. Now will it come back? Will
people like Michael Boublay and others that are trying to
keep that sound alive? Will they will they successfully bring
a renaissance of that kind of music? I don't know.
(01:51:36):
The talent certainly is there, but is there an appetite
for it? I don't know that. I don't know, but
it's still a lot of fun. If I were to
ask you interesting question, thank you, I thought you know, well,
I do this for a living.
Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
I wish I thought of it.
Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
Yeah, that's why you're here.
Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
M okay, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Can I ask the question now? Smart, alec?
Speaker 4 (01:52:04):
I mean trying to look at you to figure out
what the next say, nixt And I'm usually just dumbfounded
by your beautiful talent.
Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
Yeah, sure, mine is such a quantifiable talent. What's the
most requested Christmas song when you do a Christmas gig?
What song do people want to hear more than any
other song? Oh, let's do a taste of that. If
there was one song that is the one that most
(01:52:32):
people want you to play.
Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
It would be Okay, I think I know what it is?
Speaker 12 (01:52:38):
Okay, I hear it all the time, all right, beautiful
(01:53:28):
of course, pretty much the one.
Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
What is the Christmas song that you know that is
the most difficult to play?
Speaker 4 (01:53:41):
Yeah, you gotta have some chops for this one.
Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:53:45):
I think I tried to play a little bit earlier,
but it can be played different ways. But it's you
did it slowly?
Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Be going.
Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
Because it changes the chords like crazy. So it's really
up to.
Speaker 6 (01:54:03):
Everything.
Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
I can do this, everything I can.
Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
Can they do this?
Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
I don't know if they can do that?
Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
Is it? Because there are just so many notes and
as you said, chord changes just crammed into limited time.
Speaker 4 (01:54:41):
Well, it's just a pattern. That's you have to know
the scales real well.
Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
You have to know that, you have to know how
to navigate around in this.
Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
How long would it take you to learn that?
Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
Oh no, that's hard, that's hard, almost impossible to say.
Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Well, I mean the first time you heard it, did
you just replicate it? Are you that guy? You're the
I mean I know you do that to a large degree.
You'll just take a grip a list of songs and
turn it into a medley. Yeah, but a song like that.
Speaker 4 (01:55:16):
You got to be proficient at your scales major and
minor scales. You have to have this flexibility. You have
to have an enormous amount of muscle in the fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:55:26):
Okay, and you just have to.
Speaker 4 (01:55:30):
You have to be you just have It's hard to say,
I would say if when I started to learn that
it depends on what stage of your career or your
I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Don't get the first song, you you'll quit.
Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
You go, okay, you want to hear this one. If
you've been playing three years, you go, okay. Does anybody have.
Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
It on the radio? Yeah, let's hear that.
Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
Okay, But that's hard questions about that. Everybody has different
levels they're at or ever, we'll get it.
Speaker 1 (01:55:57):
I thought it would be a good way to set
up because of the diff dificulty of what you're about
to do. Yes, you decided you wanted to try to
create a song that embraces the sacred nature of the
day that we're celebrating the birth of Jesus Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
Right, So you want to know how that can happen
or how well.
Speaker 1 (01:56:17):
You've got about twenty seconds to tell me how you
plan to do this. What is the process of what
you're about to do live unedited on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
Okay, if people have a testimony of Jesus Christ, if
they do, then they know they know how they feel
when they think about that or utter it.
Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
They know what the feeling is. Now, what is the
sound of that?
Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Without words?
Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
So that's what you're going to try to do right now.
Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
I'm going to think of.
Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
This message and just ask above what is this supposed
to sound like?
Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
Marvin Goldstein, Ladies and gentlemen, As we end our Christmas
Day edition of the Twelve Days of Preston
Speaker 8 (01:58:51):
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