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Whether you're spending Christmas with a houseful of loved ones or enjoying a quieter celebration on your own, Mushroom FM has the perfect soundtrack for your holiday. We know that Christmas can be a time when some of our listeners find themselves alone. We'd be honored to keep you company with familiar voices and festive tunes. For those celebrating with family and friends, we'll provide the ideal musical backdrop to your festivities. Turn us up or keep us gently playing in the background as you create those special holiday memories.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know my holiday plans! Well, okay, not quite my holiday plans, but my plan regarding my contributions to Mushroom FM during this holiday season.

I know the schedule says that there will be a single Sara Smiles at midnight Eastern on Christmas Eve, but this will not be the case. Tomorrow, December 23rd, will be the final Sara Smiles for 2025. We'll be talking Festivus with the cast of Seinfeld and playing the usual tunes from all four decades of Magic Mushroom Memories, with a few holiday things in the mix as well.

Greetings! It's me, Sara Hillis, and I come before you in my Folk and Celtic music show host's hat, which at this season of the year is festooned with festive decorations galore, to present to you the Come by the Hills Christmas special! At last, it's here! I've got carols, modern Christmas classics, spoken word and even a little festive silliness! So I hope you'll tune in if you have a mind, especially since this is the final new Come by the Hills episode for 2025! I'll have a rerun next week, and then it will be a whole new year!

We had a great countdown yesterday with lots of interactive fun and frolic, and of course the songs! If you missed any of the countdown or just want to see how a particular choice of yours might have performed, the chart is now live in 2025! Simply go to the same page you used for voting, and you'll find every song listed along with their positions in the countdown!

Finally! WE are only hours away from the 2025 edition of the Mushroom fM Holiday Countdown! The people have chosen and now the fun is about to begin!

Only on Mushroom Escape:
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From this Saturday at 12 AM Eastern—that’s 6 PM Saturday in NZ, 4 PM in Sydney, and 5 AM in the UK—and repeated every four hours throughout the day—we’re
featuring the described movies Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009), Clash of the Santas (2008), and Click and Collect (2018).
Got questions, comments, or ideas for future described movies?
Email me at anthony at mushroomfm dot com (written this way to reduce spam).

Voting in the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is closed for another year, and now the preparation begins! We want to thank all who have voted this year, and if you haven't voted, you are still welcome to our virtual event. Simply inform the Fun Guys on the day of the event, and we can add you to one of our four virtual tables. And speaking of our virtual tables, you'll be able to find out where you're sitting when the seating plan goes live. That's also where you'll be able to keep track of your table's cracker score. What does this mean? More about it in my next post!

The "Juke In The Back" focuses on the " soul that came before rock n' roll," the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

It's official! The final day to have your say in the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is here! You have till 11:59 PM North aMerican Eastern time tonight to head over to our voting page, pick your top ten holiday favourites either from our database or by writing them in, and press that Submit button! Please be kind to the elves and don't wait till the last minute to vote, so they can record your vote properly before the deadline.

After you've enjoyed The Variety Vault with Paul Merrell, Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first quarter century of Rock with occasional nods to other decades and genres.
A single year is still the focus this week as I conclude the top 100 of 1965, 60 years ago, that I began 3 weeks ago. I've gotten from #100 to #14 and I'll pick up the countdown at #13 and get to #1. What do you think it will be? You may be surprised.