Your First 2015 Holiday Playlist: KCRW’s L.A. Zoo Lights music mix
If you’re in Los Angeles and are on the fence on checking out the L.A. Zoo Lights — the holiday lights display at the L.A. Zoo — then maybe this…
By Katie Hasty • • 1 min readIf you’re in Los Angeles and are on the fence on checking out the L.A. Zoo Lights — the holiday lights display at the L.A. Zoo — then maybe this fun fact will take you over the top: KCRW’s own Eric J. Lawrence cobbled together a list of left-of-center Christmas tunes, upbeat and family-friendly future hits and animal-themed jams of the past into a playlist expressly for the Zoo walk.
Even if you can’t come to the Hollywood for the holidays, you can enjoy the mix starting now: KCRW x L.A. Zoo Lights can be streamed now via KCRW on Spotify, with the tracklist for perusal below.
Enjoy El Ten Eleven mixed with Andy Williams; new artist Grace Mitchell with a Shirley Horn remix; and “Baby Elephant Walk” with contemporary alt-dance band Saint Etienne’s “I Was Born On Christmas Day.”
L.A. Zoo Lights open TONIGHT (Nov. 27).
Eric J. Lawrence — holiday music aficionado — is KCRW’s music librarian and late-night DJ on Sundays, midnight to 3am.
Here is the 2015 KCRW L.A. Zoo Lights holiday tracklist (note: not all titles are available through Spotify):
1) Corporal Blossom – “White Christmas”
2) El Ten Eleven – “Point Breeze”
3) The Free Design – “Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas)”
4) Flairs – “Truckers Delight”
5) Django Django – “Default”
6) Al Hirt – “Hooray for Santa Claus”
7) Avid Dancer – “I Feel It”
8) St. Etienne – “I Was Born on Christmas Day”
9) John Tejada – “What the Bleep”
10) Dr. Seuss – “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
11) Grace Mitchell – “NoLo”
12) Andy Williams – “Kay Thompson’s Jingle Bells”
13) Jose Gonzalez – “Let It Carry You” (Holy Ghost remix)
14) Lucky Wander Boy – “Switched on Sugar Plum Fairies”
15) Family of the Year – “Make You Mine”
16) The Wombles – “Wombling Merry Christmas”
17) Frankie Smith – “Double Dutch Bus”
18) Disclosure – “Omen”
19) Shirley Horn – “Winter Wonderland” (Christian Prommer remix)
20) Al Caiola – “Baby Elephant Walk”
21) Jean-Jacques Perrey – “E.V.A.”
22) Belle & Sebastian – “The Monkeys Are Breaking Out the Zoo”