Welcome to episode 130 of Holly Jolly X'masu! In this episode, I talk about the Kodama Press sonojournal, "X'mas Dance Music," featuring Yasushi Ashida and his Mellow Notes.

I hope you enjoyed listening to and learning what little I was able to uncover about Yasushi Ashida. The music here really is fantastic. Collecting these old sonojournals and flexi-discs has been an adventure unto itself. While I know what I'm getting into with some of them, others are a complete surprise. Finding gems like this really makes it worthwhile.

As promised in the episode, here's the contents of the sonojournal:

Join me back here on Christmas Day for another great, new episode. It's become something of a tradition for me to feature the best, most exciting albums from my collection on Christmas Day, and this year is no exception. This time I'll be covering one of the ultimate holy grails of Japanese Christmas records, "Rock Christmas Rock" by the Warner Beatniks. This is one that will truly blow you away, so make sure you listen in.

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