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**EDIT - #MedfordMA #Porchfest rescheduled late on Saturday - many events will happen on SUNDAY**

Sat - 🎶 QUINTUPLE #PORCHFEST EVENTS 🎶

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Various Artists, A Very Special Christmas, 1987 on A&M

Long before Maria’s “All I Want For Christmas” came this wonderful compilation to benefit Special Olympics International with a whos-who of mid-late 80s artists covering holiday songs:

• The Pointer Sisters – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• Eurythmics – Winter Wonderland
• Whitney Houston – Do You Hear What I Hear
• Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band – Merry Christmas Baby
• The Pretenders – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
• John Cougar Mellencamp – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
• Sting – Gabriel’s Message
• Run-DMC – Christmas in Hollis
• U2 – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• Madonna – Santa Baby
• Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band – The Little Drummer Boy
• Bryan Adams – Run Rudolph Run
• Bon Jovi – Back Door Santa
• Alison Moyet – The Coventry Carol
• Stevie Nicks – Silent Night

This is holiday music I can get behind – though Christmas in Hollis does have a certain earworm quality I still love it. Artwork by Keith Haring, of course.

My copy via Beverly Coin & Jewelry. Different versions exist with black vs gold lettering on the cover, and with green/red on different side labels.

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Sinéad O’Connor, The Lion and the Cobra, 1987 on Chrysalis / Ensign

This was Sinéad’s debut album and is still just astonishingly great. The spoken word intro in gaelic by Enya before “Never Get Old” is Psalm 91:

For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee upon their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample […]

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Tim Finn, Escapade, 1983 on A&M

Tim Finn’s better known as one of the co-founders of Split Enz, and later member of Crowded House. This was his debut album as a solo artist, originally on Mushroom records, a large indie label in Australia, but distributed in the US by A&M.

It was a #1 record in New Zealand, top ten in Australia, and top 100 in Canada – but only made it to #161 in the US charts. Vince Gill guests on […]

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