{"id":637,"date":"2018-12-21T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:00:36","slug":"countdown-to-christmas-step-into-christmas-by-elton-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/countdown-to-christmas-step-into-christmas-by-elton-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Christmas: &#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221; by Elton John"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000000\">It&#8217;s our Countdown to Christmas where some of your favorite KKSM personalities share with us their favorite holiday tunes. Rich Appel, host of\u00a0<em>that thing<\/em>, writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Clearly influenced by one of the best holiday collections ever &#8211; Phil Spector\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Christmas Gift to You<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Elton and producer Gus Dudgeon may have outdone Phil and company during one wall-of-sound-channeling session, producing this now-Christmas classic. Probably didn\u2019t hurt that it was recorded in the wake of what many called Elton\u2019s best album,\u00a0<em>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cStep\u201d is a staple of the Chestnut Cabaret!<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IbRtGMm96F8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rich Appel is the host of\u00a0<em>that thing<\/em> every Saturday from 2-5pm on KKSM.\u00a0<em>that thing\u00a0<\/em>is a throwback to the good old days of top-down, Top 40 boss radio that you know and love. Broadcasting live from the Chesnut Cabaret,\u00a0<em>that thing<\/em> brings you songs, jingles, trivia, and more. For more, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thathingshow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thatthingshow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our Countdown to Christmas where some of your favorite KKSM personalities share with us their favorite holiday tunes. Rich Appel, host of\u00a0that thing, writes:\u00a0 Clearly influenced by one of the best holiday collections ever &#8211; Phil Spector\u2019s\u00a0A Christmas Gift to You &#8211;\u00a0Elton and producer Gus Dudgeon may have outdone Phil and company during one&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/countdown-to-christmas-step-into-christmas-by-elton-john\/\">\u00a0Continue Reading:<span> Countdown to Christmas: &#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221; by Elton John<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2018\/12\/Elton-John-Step-Into-Christmas-EP-cover-web-optimised-350.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p94S4R-ah","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/kksm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}