The Leonard Lopate Show
Christmas Gospel
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Leonard celebrates Christmas with his annual gospel music special. Also: find out why many exterminators are turning towards non-chemical methods of pest control. A demographer explains a recent rise in reported same-sex couples in conservative regions throughout the US. And Joy Behar of "The View"!
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Leonard’s Christmas Gospel Music Special
Leonard celebrates Christmas with his annual holiday gospel music special. Here’s the playlist:
Christ is Born (Marion Williams and Alex Bradford/Black Nativity)
Have You Got Room? (Edna Gallmon Cooke/Springfield Bap Ch, Wash., DC)
No Room at the Hotel (Jessie Mae Renfro – Gospel Sound of Spirit Feel)
No Room at the Inn (Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas)
Go Tell It On the Mountain (Mahalia Jackson - Apollo Sessions)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Gospel Christmas w. Mahalia Jackson)
No Room at the Hotel (Chosen Gospel Singers with Lou Rawls)
Great Day in December (Claude Jeter and the Swan Silvertones)
No Room at the Inn (Marion Williams -- O Holy Night)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Marion Williams - Through Many Dangers)
Poor Little Jesus Boy (Mattie Williams -- Black Nativity)
The Holy Babe (Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas)
Mary, Mary, What You Gonna Name that Pretty Little Baby? (Frances Steadman and Marion Williams -- Black Nativity)
What You Gonna Name Your Baby? (Christmas with Shirley Caesar)
When Was Jesus Born? (Marion Williams – O Holy Night)
White Christmas (Complete Sis. Rosetta Tharpe)
Greener Pest Control
Pesticides are known to harm wildlife, cause reproductive abnormalities, and are even associated with multiple forms of cancer in humans. More and more exterminators are trying out non-chemical substances like sugar to control common household pests. Jonathan Kaplan works with the Natural Resources Defense Council; Luis Agurto Sr. is an exterminator and owner of San Francisco-based pest control company Pestec.
More about Green Shield certification for pest control experts
Pestec’s website
NRDC’s website
There Are More Same-Sex Couples Throughout the U.S.
Recent US Census data shows a massive increase in same-sex couples in the US; the number has nearly quadrupled since 1990. Demographer Dr. Gary Gates Senior Research Fellow at the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
The Williams Institute’s website
More about Dr. Gates
How to Cheer Yourself Up
Joy Behar of "The View" shares her advice on how to cheer yourself when you’re feeling blue. Her new book is When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin.
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