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Our thanks to 101.9 WLIF-FM, Baltimore’s Christmas Music Station, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore for bringing you, our listeners, another fantastic Christmas season.
Production on the 2025 edition of Christmas In Maryland is underway.
A very special thanks to Greg Carpenter, Gina Crash and all of our friends at WLIF-FM.
Christmas In Maryland
A five-hour audio journey allowing listeners to pause and feel the tradition that lives nestled between the mountains of western Maryland and the beaches of the Atlantic shore.
Christmas In Maryland takes you from the big city to the small towns of Maryland, capturing the stories of the season at every stop, all wrapped around your favorite holiday songs.
Christmas In Maryland has captured Maryland at Christmastime!
It’s a visit to world-famous 34th Street in Baltimore. It’s spending time with family in LIttle Italy on Christmas Eve. It’s tagging along with Santa on one of his visits to western Maryland, and living the dream of the Western Maryland Polar Express.
It’s also a sneak peak at what has become known as “Christmastown” in Pittsville on Maryland’s eastern shore.
You will also meet a couple from Cambridge who went to “Santa School” to learn how to become Santa & Mrs. Claus.
We’ll explain how hundreds of Marylanders have been starting the holiday season in north Baltimore since the early 2000’s. It involves brass, bagpipes and a cathedral.
We’ll also visit with famous Marylanders including Cal Ripken Jr., Brooks Robinson, Steve Bisciotti, and John Waters. Plus TV game-show legend Pat Sajak plays DJ for us and reveals what Christmas In Maryland means to him.
2025 Show | Hour by Hour
Segment One:
- John Patti introduction over “Christmastime is Here” Vince Guaraldi (Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson)
- Feature – Kennedy Krieger Festival of Trees
- “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” Brenda Lee (Johnny Marks)
Segment Two:
- “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow” Michael Bublé (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn)
- Feature – Holiday Brass Baltimore
- “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass (Traditional)
- Feature – Caine Woods Christmas House
- “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Andy Williams (G. Wyle & E. Pola)
- Feature – Maryland’s Charlie Brown Christmas Tree
Segment Three:
- “Little Saint Nick” Beach Boys (Brian Wilson & Mike Love)
- “Merry Christmas” Ed Sheeran & Elton John (Ed Sheeran & Elton John)
- Feature – Christmas on 34th Street
- “Silver Bells” Dean Martin (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)
- “All I Want for Christmas Is You” Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey/ Walter N. Afanasieff)
Segment One:
- “Happy Holidays – The Holiday Season” Andy Williams (Irving Berlin – K. Thompson/Arr: M. Paich)
- Feature – Winter Wonderland at the Padonia Swim Club
Segment Two:
- Feature – Jeff’s Christmas Light Show Spectacular
- “Up on a Housetop” Reba McIntire (Benjamin Hanby)
- Feature – Christmastown – Pittsville, Maryland
- “Underneath the Tree” Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Clarkson & Gregory Allen Kurstin)
- “One More Sleep” Leona Lewis (Leona Lewis, Richard Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst, Bradford Ellis)
Segment One:
- Feature – The Shops at Kenilworth Train Garden
- “The Polar Express” – Tom Hanks (Alan Silvestri/Glen Ballard)
Segment Two:
- Feature – Ocean City Train Garden
- “Santa Train” – Patti Loveless (Patty Loveless/Emory Gordy Jr.)
- Feature – The Hagerstown Roundhouse
- “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays” – Carpenters (Al Stillman/Robert Allen)
- “DJ Play a Christmas Song” – Cher (Sarah Theresa Hudson / Brett Leland Mclaughlin / Jesse Saint John/James John Abrahart/Lionel Crasta/Mark Schick)
- “Here Comes Santa Claus” – Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans (Oakley Haldeman / Gene Autry)
- “Sleigh Ride” – The Ronettes (Leroy Anderson/Mitchell Parish)
Segment Three:
- Feature – Gibbons Family Civil War Basement Train Garden
- “Believe” – Josh Groban (Alan Silvestri / Glen Ballard)
- Feature – Kellnerville Pays Tribute to the Traditions of the German Train Garden
- “Old Toy Trains” – Roger Miller (Roger Miller)
- “Suite from the Polar Express” (Alan Silvestri)
Segment One:
- “Frosty the Snowman” – The Ronettes (Walter Rollins/Steve Nelson)
- Feature – Winter City Lights in Olney, Maryland
Segment Two:
- Feature – Cocoa, Caroling and Caring
- “Santa Can’t You Hear Me?” Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande (Aben Eubanks / Kelly Clarkson)
- Feature – Christmas Eve on Taylors Island
- “Christmas Is” – Percy Faith (Percy Faith/Spence Maxwell)
- Feature – Ocean City Winterfest of Lights
- “Hot Chocolate” – Tom Hanks (Alan Silvestri / Glen Ballard)
Segment Three:
- “Christmas in the Sand” – Colbie Cailait (Kara Elizabeth Dioguardi/Colbie Caillat/Jason Bradford Reeves)
- Feature – German Christmas Village in Baltimore
- “Christmas, Baby Please Come Home” – Mariah Carey (Ellie Greenwich / Jeff Barry / Philip Spector)
- “Last Christmas” – Taylor Swift (George Michael)
Segment One:
- Feature – Christmas Walk of Wonder
- “Here We Come a Caroling” Ray Conniff (Traditional)
Segment Two:
- “The Little Drummer Boy” Harry Simeone Chorale (Katherine Kennicott Davis)
- Feature – Live Nativity Scene at St. John’s Episcopal Church
- “The Christmas Song” Nat ‘King’ Cole (Mel Torme/Robert Wells)
- Feature – The Budweiser Clydesdales Visit Annapolis
- “Jingle Bell Rock” Bobby Helms (Jim Boothe/Joseph Carleton Beal)
- “Wonderful Christmastime” Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney)
Segment Three:
“The Chipmunk Song” The Chipmunks/the Music of David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)
Feature – Christmas Overload – Part One
Feature – Christmas Overload – Part Two
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town” Bruce Springsteen (J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie)
Segment One:
- Feature – Johnny Mathis’ Maryland Memories
- “Winter Wonderland” Johnny Mathis with Percy Faith and His Orchestra (D. Smith/F. Bernard))
Segment Two:
- Feature – Johnny Mathis’ Maryland Memories continued
- “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” Johnny Mathis (Meredith Willson)
- Feature – Pat Sajack’s Ultimate Holiday Shopping Tip and Maryland Christmas Memories
- “White Christmas” Bing Crosby (Irving Berlin”
- Feature – Pat Sajack continued
- Feature – A Christmas Visit with Mike Love
- “Frosty the Snowman” Beach Boys (Walter Rollins/Steve Nelson)
Segment Three:
- Feature – Barry Manilow Christmas Memories
- “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Barry Manilow (Johnny Marks)
- Feature – A John and Janine Miller Maryland Christmas
- “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” Elvis Presley (Kim Gannon/Walter Kent)
- “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” Dean Martin (Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne)