One feature in particular, is a daily listing of what I call “Birthdays & Departures” - those who were born on and dies on that day.

My blog will continue to involve throughout the year, and hopefully years to come.  Here’s the first list of my first new daily feature.

Hope you have a very Happy New Year, and thanks so much for looking in - I appreciate it!

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BIRTHDAYS & DEPARTURES – 1/11942 – Country Joe McDonald

MY #1 FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE OF ALL TIME

I didn’t see “It’s A Wonderful Life” until the mid-80’s.  It’s not a movie I grew up with.  I was working at KZZP (the real one)and a salesman named Bob (sorry I can’t remember his last name) kept telling me about the greatest movie he’s ever seen. Being a “beginning movie buff”, I was anxious to track it down - it wasn’t hard.  At the time “It’s A Wonderful Life” had fallen into the public domain, which meant any TV station could run the movie for free - and they did - all the time.  Last week we watched it again for the umpteenth time, and though we know just about every line of dialogue, it still makes an impact.  And yeah, I still git wet eyes when brother Harry makes it home just in time to toast his brother George…..Auld Lang Syne…cue the tear ducts…..It ranks as my #1 Christmas movie - and certainly one of my top 5 all time favorite movies period!  It was Jimmy Stewart’s first movie after returning home from the war.  It was the first movie for Frank Capra’s Liberty Films……and did you know the snow scenes of Bedford Falls  were filmed in 1946 during one of the hottest summers they’d ever experienced!!!!!  How many movies made so long ago can still make you think and pull at your emotions at the same time?  Not many, and for me “It’s A Wonderful Life” does it better than any other. 

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HERE’S THE FINALE - HAVE A BOX OF KLEENEX HANDY……

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HERE’S ONE PRECIOUS THING HOLDING ANOTHER PRECIOUS THING

Brenna and my Jimmy Stewart autograph. 

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 IF YOU’D LIKE TO DROP CAMELBACK JACK A LINE, HERE’S HIS EMAIL ADDRESS:  jackinphoenix@gmail.com

GREAT GUY - I KNOW HE’D LOVE HEARING FROM YOU.

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THANKS FOR LOOKING IN TODAY - I’M TAKING A FEW DAYS OFF FOR THE HOLIDAY.  GOD WILLING, I’LL SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!  THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT IN 2008 - I LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU ALL!

#2 IN THE COUNTDOWN OF MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES

This is a true story:  Ricky Guy was the son of Bill Guy, who owned the newspaper in my hometown of Haskell, Oklahoma.  Ricky along with every guy in our class, wanted a BB gun, and we all got the same story from our moms, “you’ll shoot your eye out”.  To make a long story short, Ricky was the first one in our class to get a BB gun for Christmas.  After his family opened up all their presents, he took his brand new BB gun out into the yard where he put a target on a metal sign (you know where this is going), took aim, and promptly shot his eye out!  When he came back to school after the Christmas vacation, he had a big silver patch over his eye which was attached to his face with white medical tape.  I remember it like it was yesterday.  Eventually some of my class mates did get Daisy Air Rifles, but I never did.  And now you know why my second favorite Christmas movie is so special to me…it’s like a real slice of my own life!

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AND HERE’S THE FLAG POLE SCENE! 

HERE ARE SOME MORE OF YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES

Scrooged  

It’s a wonderful life  

Miracle on 34th street 

and The santa clauseMy all time, blast it out ( its on right now ), fav christmas song is santa claus is coming to town by the bossCindy Bennett ********************************************* If you’d like to drop Camelback Jack an email, here’s an address to use.  I know he’d appreciate hearing from you.

#3 IN THE COUNTDOWN OF MY 5 FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES

This has to be one of the most unusual trailers ever - doesn’t really sell the fact that its a Christmas movie.  Really doesn’t even tell you anything about the film itself. Great shots of the old back lot at 20th Century Fox - and of some of the movie stars of the time.  Don’t fall for the re-make - the original is still the best!

What are YOUR favorite Christmas movies?  Email me at  Steve.Goddard@cbsradio.com

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HERE ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITES!!!!!!!

from Bill Sells:  

1. A Christmas Story
2. It’s a Wonderful Life
3. The Santa Claus Movie
4. The Santa Clause
5. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (animated)

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from Mikie Brooks - Scottsdale - her 5 favorite Christmas songs

Here are my top favorite five:

5)  Please come home for Christmas: Eagles

4) Mary Did you Know?:Wynona

3) All I want for Christmas is you:Vince Vance and the Valiants

2) Auld Lang Syne:Dan Fogleberg

1) Merry Christmas Darling:Carpenters

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from Andrea Peterson - her 5 favorite Christmas movies

1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL(GEORGE C. SCOTT) 2. ELF(WILL FERRELL)  

3. THE SANTA CLAUSE(TIM ALLEN) 

4.JINGLE ALL THE WAY(ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER)  

5. JACK FROST(MICHAEL KEATON)

MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES………AND MANY MORE!!!

ANDREA PETERSEN    

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Thanks for the emails - that’s just a sample - keep ‘em coming!

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NEW PICTURES IN TODAY’S GALLERY INCLUDE MARIA CLEANING UP THE TUESDAY DOG MESS!

If you were listening yesterday morning between 8:15 and 9am, you know what I’m talking about!

(the smell was REALLY bad!  REALLY REALLY bad!)

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LATEST!

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 THIS IS A VERSION OF ME SINGING “WHITE CHRISTMAS” I DID A FEW YEARS AGO WITH CLIPS OF MY MOM.  SURE MISS HER.  HOPE YOU LIKE IT.  CLICK ON THE AUDIO ICON TO HEAR IT

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GOT THIS VERY NICE EMAIL TODAY:

I am so glad that you included the song with your Mom.  I have been a listener of yours since back in the days of Sunny 97 through KNIX and now KOOL.  I was wondering if we were going to be able to hear that song again.  You have a wonderful voice! 

Love your show!

Debbie Schank

Thanks Debbie - reall appreciate your kind words!

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THANKS FOR LOOKING IN TODAY - I LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU ALL!