Speaker 1: Have the temperatures outside where you live cooled enough to
Speaker 1: tempt you to build a fire in the fireplace, put
Speaker 1: on some fuzzy slippers, brew up a steaming cup of
Speaker 1: hot cocoa or soothing big a low t If not,
Speaker 1: we'll be there soon. The rain. Who The rain is
Speaker 1: starting to come down with regularity. Where I live, the
Speaker 1: wind has been howling. Pumpkins are popping up on stoops
Speaker 1: and porches. While their carved faces are meant to be menacing,
Speaker 1: There's nothing spooky about this time of year for me.
Speaker 1: I just love autumn. I love the leaves, I love
Speaker 1: walking through them. I love riding my horses when the
Speaker 1: leaves are falling. One of the best things about this
Speaker 1: time of year is the abundance of new holiday music
Speaker 1: that is dropping. October is traditionally the month that artists
Speaker 1: revealed their projects they've been working hard on, and this
Speaker 1: year will not disappoint. Maybe you caught wind of a
Speaker 1: quick visit I made to Los Angeles last month. Maybe
Speaker 1: you saw me sharing hints on social media. Malibu Beach,
Speaker 1: to be precise. While I wasn't able to share much
Speaker 1: about it at that time, I can now the seasonless
Speaker 1: national treasure that is, Share invited me and a handful
Speaker 1: of other folks in the music industry to get together
Speaker 1: to listen to her new Christmas album. So that we did.
Speaker 1: We gathered, We sipped on sparkling water, we nibbled on
Speaker 1: delicious little tidbits, and we waited in breathless anticipation at
Speaker 1: her home. And then the music began. Oh Oh, my
Speaker 1: heart's how I love Christmas at any time of year.
Speaker 1: And hearing Cher's powerful voice belting out our old favorites
Speaker 1: and exciting news soon to be favorites since shivers up
Speaker 1: and down my spine even on a warm evening in September.
Speaker 1: It was a very merry, very bright, and hooray, a
Speaker 1: very rock and roll holiday album. It includes thirteen songs,
Speaker 1: many of them holiday classics, and four new original songs
Speaker 1: written by Sarah Hudson and her team, who I got
Speaker 1: to meet, I got to hang out with, I fell
Speaker 1: in love with them all. It also has a star
Speaker 1: studded list of musical besties, including Darlene Love, Stevie Wonder,
Speaker 1: Michael Boublaiz, Cyndi Laupper, and Tiga. It was the most magical,
Speaker 1: amazing evening I had to pinch myself before, during, and
Speaker 1: after to make sure I wasn't dreaming the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Can it get any better than that? Well, yes, yes
Speaker 1: it can, because she is here with us today and
Speaker 1: we're going to hear all the details about how her
Speaker 1: glorious new album Christmas came about. Christmas has been available
Speaker 1: for a couple of days now. It was released October
Speaker 1: twenty at the first single DJ play a Christmas song
Speaker 1: dropped last month. It's disco vibe. We'll have you up
Speaker 1: on your feet. We'll be sharing all the details on
Speaker 1: Shar's new album Christmas right after I share the details
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Speaker 1: Hi Sarah, how are you? I'm wonderful? How are you?
Speaker 1: Is the question?
Speaker 2: Pretty good?
Speaker 1: You're pretty good? You're pretty awesome. Are you dancing? Are
Speaker 1: you dancing to your new Christmas song? Because this DJ
Speaker 1: here is is putting it on for you. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, how could you? How could we not when
Speaker 1: you title a song, DJ play this, you know, come on?
Speaker 1: I know? That was like damn. She is so clever,
Speaker 1: she knows, she knows how to stroke it. So we
Speaker 1: can't not play it.
Speaker 2: I didn't think about it. I didn't write it, but
Speaker 2: I love it, and I actually was thinking about it,
Speaker 2: and I was thinking, boy a bit, every DJ is
Speaker 2: going to play it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly what every one of us that have
Speaker 1: talked to each other said. Oh my god, she mentioned
Speaker 1: as like she remembers, there's a person here. I love that.
Speaker 2: It's so weird. I mean, I don't know. I wasn't
Speaker 2: thinking it when I was doing it. I just thought
Speaker 2: about it. I thought, oh my god, I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: to them, I'm giving them props.
Speaker 1: You are, it's totally giving us props. And we love that.
Speaker 1: We love that, and we love you. First off, I
Speaker 1: got to say thank you for inviting me to your
Speaker 1: listening party.
Speaker 2: It was fun. It was fun, right, it was fun.
Speaker 1: And your patio, your little thing is so beautiful, and
Speaker 1: you're so beautiful and you look so happy with your honey.
Speaker 1: And I was just like my sister and I both
Speaker 1: kept pinching ourselves, going, oh my god, aren't we really
Speaker 1: in shares place? And then when the music started. When
Speaker 1: the music started, because they had given me little snippets
Speaker 1: of a few of the songs, but when we got
Speaker 1: to listen together, you know, to the whole album. It
Speaker 1: was wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a bunch of songs that you think
Speaker 2: wouldn't go together, but they do.
Speaker 1: They do. So why why now? Why a Christmas song?
Speaker 1: After all these years of you've done sappy love songs,
Speaker 1: you've done dance songs, you've done dance songs about love,
Speaker 1: You've done love songs that you can dance to, and
Speaker 1: now we've got a Christmas album and some of them
Speaker 1: you can dance to.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I never wanted to do one because
Speaker 2: I could never. I never felt like I could pupture
Speaker 2: what I wanted, and I wasn't even and because I
Speaker 2: didn't know what I wanted. But then I thought, if
Speaker 2: I could just pick the songs myself, that I would
Speaker 2: have a chance. I would pick songs that I loved
Speaker 2: and maybe pick songs that people don't know. And then
Speaker 2: Sarah they came up with, you know, drop Top and
Speaker 2: Angels in the Snow and DJ and not all at
Speaker 2: one time. I mean she they actually wrote one of
Speaker 2: the songs, dropped Top sleigh Ride, because I said to Sarah,
Speaker 2: I want you to take some kids stuff and make
Speaker 2: it grown up, and she did, I mean so, and
Speaker 2: then I just started like I found Chuck Berry's song,
Speaker 2: you know, Run Run, Rudolph So. And also I got
Speaker 2: a chance to sing all the kinds of music that
Speaker 2: I loved.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I got to meet your friend
Speaker 1: Darlene Love, and she told me the story of when
Speaker 1: when you sang that with her and you were a teenager.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I sang background on it when I was
Speaker 2: a teenager, but I was in the studio when she
Speaker 2: did it when she's actually sang it, and we all knew,
Speaker 2: you know, I've been in the studio a couple of
Speaker 2: times when everybody in the room just nose and nobody
Speaker 2: was breathing. And then it was done and the only
Speaker 2: thing that happened was that Fanita had just bent over
Speaker 2: and hit her in the knee, and then we were
Speaker 2: all just amazed. It's just an amazing feeling, an amazing
Speaker 2: moment when you hear a song like that.
Speaker 1: Well, she shared a wonderful story with me, and she said,
Speaker 1: when they had you singing the background the backup, somebody said,
Speaker 1: well you need to back up a little bit. You
Speaker 1: need to back up a little bit because your voice
Speaker 1: was so beautiful and powerful and strong, and she said,
Speaker 1: I knew at that moment she had it talking about you.
Speaker 1: I know that she knew that you had this powerhouse
Speaker 1: inside of you.
Speaker 2: Well that's pretty good talking from a powerhouse. But it
Speaker 2: was Philip. It was phil Spector, and he kept saying,
Speaker 2: could you just back up? Could you just back up?
Speaker 2: And Darling once said, if she backs up and emmosals
Speaker 2: being studio.
Speaker 1: Be ah, that is wonderful. And now you got to
Speaker 1: sing it with her on your first Christmas album and
Speaker 1: we are blessed to be able to listen to it.
Speaker 1: And I'm just excited because I got to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. Sometimes I get kind of bored. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been doing Christmas music how many months out of
Speaker 1: the year, two months, three months out of the year
Speaker 1: for my entire career, and you can only hear holly
Speaker 1: Jolly Christmas so many times.
Speaker 2: I know That's why I didn't do it, because I
Speaker 2: just didn't. I couldn't fit it in. I just couldn't
Speaker 2: fit it in. And even though there have been great
Speaker 2: Christmas albums, I just this kind of sound a little
Speaker 2: bit ridiculous. But I just wanted to do a share
Speaker 2: Christmas album and I didn't really know what it was.
Speaker 2: I couldn't really find it. And then I just share.
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Speaker 1: did you find Sarah? The young lady and her gang
Speaker 1: that wrote the original music? How did you find her?
Speaker 2: I've known Sarah since she was four years old, and
Speaker 2: I think that she brought or someone at the company,
Speaker 2: the record company was talking to her and then she went,
Speaker 2: oh my god, okay, share of course, of course, and
Speaker 2: then we started talking about when she was little, and
Speaker 2: you know, and we just were it was just like
Speaker 2: no time had gone past. And then she wrote the
Speaker 2: other two with her crew.
Speaker 1: She is a breath of fresh air. I so enjoyed
Speaker 1: talking to her and the young men that helped her
Speaker 1: collaborate on the new stuff that you did, which is
Speaker 1: fresh and fun and holiday and love and joy all
Speaker 1: wrapped up that you can dance to.
Speaker 2: Also you can just be happy to it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we need that, we need that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yes, and yes, but it's it's joyous. I
Speaker 2: don't know. It just turned out that the songs that
Speaker 2: I picked independently became joyous as a group.
Speaker 1: When I was there at your house and I was
Speaker 1: listening and the song came on because you do duets
Speaker 1: with Stevie Wonder and Tiger and You, Darlene.
Speaker 2: And simply and Michael Boblay.
Speaker 1: Michael Buble came on and he's I love him, and
Speaker 1: so I texted him, I said, oh mg, and I
Speaker 1: shot a little video. I said, I'm at Shar's house
Speaker 1: listening to you sing with her. And then he sent
Speaker 1: me a video back as he was at home with
Speaker 1: the kids, and oh my god, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 2: I know, it's we only have kind of two sad songs,
Speaker 2: and it's by far the saddest. All my girlfriends cried
Speaker 2: when they heard it. But it's great and he's really special.
Speaker 2: And I didn't know him. But then Cindy. Cindy came
Speaker 2: on board right away, right away, so I got all
Speaker 2: these people. And the truth is, I don't think I
Speaker 2: ever had anybody on any one of my records.
Speaker 1: Seriously, this is new, all these all this love mashing
Speaker 1: up together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't think of it. I thought of
Speaker 2: it with Stevie because when I tried to sing a song,
Speaker 2: it just didn't work, you know. And I called him
Speaker 2: and said, Stevie, I think I've done a good job
Speaker 2: on a lot of it, but there are some parts
Speaker 2: that are just you and I can't do it, and
Speaker 2: I need you to come and do it.
Speaker 1: And he, of course was thrilled to do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, he just said, okay, it was too easy, and
Speaker 2: then he said at the end, do you want me
Speaker 2: to play my harmonica? And I was like, oh my god, yes,
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Well, it is a wonderful, fun album. I'm honored to
Speaker 1: get to share it with my listeners. And just to
Speaker 1: see you shine I heard at the party and I
Speaker 1: did a little research. You've got is it six decades?
Speaker 1: You've been on Billboard's top chart, the top of the chart.
Speaker 1: I think so, you think so? And now here we
Speaker 1: are in a new decade. So we got we gotta
Speaker 1: make it seven?
Speaker 2: I know. Well, also I have. I'm going to start
Speaker 2: a new album after the season, after Christmas.
Speaker 1: Are you going to give yourself some time to just
Speaker 1: relax and enjoy it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what I'm going home about the
Speaker 2: next The next one is a share album. Well this
Speaker 2: was a share album too, but the next one doesn't
Speaker 2: have a theme.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for this theme, and thank you for
Speaker 1: spending time with us, and Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
Speaker 2: I love you, it's nice to see you again.
Speaker 1: And thank you for the picture, because my kids think
Speaker 1: I'm cool nowure. Oh, it was such a good picture
Speaker 1: of us. And I sent it. I have, you know,
Speaker 1: a thousand kids, and I sent it to all my
Speaker 1: adult children and they're like, dang, mom that share. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know it. That's me. That's me, your mom right
Speaker 1: next to her. Okay, And we're friends. And I met
Speaker 1: your best friend and she's been in touch with me,
Speaker 1: your best friends from from way back. And she sent
Speaker 1: me pictures of some of the things her daughter had designed,
Speaker 1: the clothes and.
Speaker 2: The joe Joey you met Joey.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And and I, like I said, my sister and
Speaker 1: I were just thrilled beyond words to be there and
Speaker 1: your pool, your home, the roses I took. I was
Speaker 1: the crazy woman taking pictures of your roses. I didn't
Speaker 1: see you, so it's okay, okay. I was just like
Speaker 1: those roses smelled heavenly and I couldn't I couldn't get
Speaker 1: enough pictures. It was like the main picture on my
Speaker 1: social media for some time. Here are roses from Shar's party,
Speaker 1: because they were so good. Everything was beautiful. I didn't
Speaker 1: eat though, all that nice little food you had, I
Speaker 1: didn't eat there.
Speaker 2: I was too excited.
Speaker 1: I'm a slob, and I was afraid I was going
Speaker 1: to drop it on my shirt or my jumper. And
Speaker 1: so after where I left him, like, dang, I'm so hungry,
Speaker 1: and those little thingies looked so good, but I did
Speaker 1: not want to go give you a hug with food on.
Speaker 2: You know, No, that wouldn't have been a good look.
Speaker 1: That would not have been a good look.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you. I make a confession. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I should wear a bib sometimes I should.
Speaker 1: Wear a bib. I should invent a stylish bib. Actually,
Speaker 1: your girl friend's daughter should invent a stylish bib for
Speaker 1: adults that were slops.
Speaker 2: No, you're not quite there. It's got to be rhymestone.
Speaker 1: It's got to be blink blin a blink bib. I
Speaker 1: don't eat in the car because if I ever eat
Speaker 1: in the car, I wear it.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not that bad, but yeah, I have to
Speaker 2: be kind of careful because also I'm very big with
Speaker 2: my hands, you know, so talking and you know I
Speaker 2: have to kind of calm down.
Speaker 1: Well, don't calm down this holiday share. Thank you, Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: God bless you. Okay, same to you, big bye bye Hunt.
Speaker 1: This album is such a gift, and like all the
Speaker 1: best presents, it's when you can give to yourself just
Speaker 1: as easily as you can share it with others. Thirteen
Speaker 1: amazing Christmas songs from Chaer, our goddess of pop who
Speaker 1: has been aweing and delighting us for nearly six decades
Speaker 1: now and showing no signs of slow down. She is
Speaker 1: one of the world's best selling music artists, with over
Speaker 1: one hundred million in record sales. Her achievements include a
Speaker 1: Grammy and Emmy and Oscar, three Golden Globes, a cons
Speaker 1: Film Festival Award, and the Billboard Icon Award. She is
Speaker 1: the only artist to date to have a number one
Speaker 1: single on a Billboard chart for six consecutive decades, starting
Speaker 1: in the sixties, go into the twenty tens. I think
Speaker 1: we're going to be adding the twenty twenties to that list.
Speaker 1: I believe we Are Christmas is available everywhere right now,
Speaker 1: so don't waste any time before adding it to your
Speaker 1: holiday playlist. I'm pretty sure I can help her with
Speaker 1: the request of DJ play a Christmas song. I will
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Speaker 1: dot share dot com to download yours today Christmas dot
Speaker 1: share dot com. If the shorter, darker days and all
Speaker 1: the craziness in the world have you feeling a little glum,
Speaker 1: Christmas music, especially Christmas music sung by Sharon her Friends,
Speaker 1: is the antidote. Spending time with me in the evenings
Speaker 1: is another proven way to lift your spirits and mine.
Speaker 1: Do spend some time while the sun is up paying
Speaker 1: attention to all the good things that are happening around us.
Speaker 1: The colorful leaves, the busy squirrels, all manners of mushrooms
Speaker 1: popping up in fields and gardens and forests. It is
Speaker 1: a fairy land out there. Enjoy the sights and sounds
Speaker 1: and senses that autumn delivers. Then curl up with a
Speaker 1: cup of tea and tune in to my radio program.
Speaker 1: I love spending time with you.