{"id":8438,"date":"2013-12-17T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:11","slug":"staff-picks-susans-twelve-non-traditional-songs-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2013\/12\/17\/staff-picks-susans-twelve-non-traditional-songs-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Susan&#8217;s Twelve Non-Traditional Songs of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To close out 2013, we asked library staff members to write lists\u2013of anything they want. Today we feature Susan Wardzala&#8217;s twelve non-traditional songs of Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Susan is a reference librarian and the subject specialist for Social Work and Criminal Justice at Lewis Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2013\/12\/swardza.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2013\/12\/swardza-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"swardza\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2013\/12\/swardza-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2013\/12\/swardza.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winter holidays are full of family, friends and festivity, but they are full of the same songs, so add some new songs to your playlist that keep to the holiday spirit but add some zing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12 Non-Traditional Songs of Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas Can-Can (Straight No Chaser)<br \/>\nChristmas in the City (Mary J. Blige with Angie Martinez)<br \/>\nChristmas in the Sand (Colbie Caillat)<br \/>\nChristmas Wrapping (Waitresses)<br \/>\nCool Cool Christmas (Dean Knippaehne)<br \/>\nElf&#8217;s Lament (Barenaked Ladies and Michael Buble)<br \/>\nLast Christmas (Ashley Tisdale)<br \/>\nPeppermint Winter (Owl City)<br \/>\nReindeer Boogie (Trisha Yearwood)<br \/>\nShake Hands with Santa Claus (Louie Prima)<br \/>\nTime to be Jolly (Bob and Delores Hope)<br \/>\nWrap Yourself in a Christmas Package (Randy Greer and Ignas Terraza Trio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To close out 2013, we asked library staff members to write lists\u2013of anything they want. Today we feature Susan Wardzala&#8217;s twelve non-traditional songs of Christmas. Susan is a reference librarian and the subject specialist for Social Work and Criminal Justice at Lewis Library. The winter holidays are full of family, friends and festivity, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":8440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[48,5016],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8455,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/8455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}