New Oldies

Here's another one I was surprised to find not out on CD. This is the soundtrack record to a TV special from the 80's, Scrooge's Rock 'N Roll Christmas. Typical schmaltzy TV from the period, but at least you got Jack Elam as Scrooge. Now that's casting! Rounding out the cast were a bunch of individuals and groups from the oldies circuit, like The Association, Three Dog Night, Bobby Goldsboro, Paul Revere And The Raiders, Dean Torrance (you know, from Jan & Dean) and everybody's favorite Beach Boy, Mike Love. With a cast like that, how can you go wrong? Well, for one thing, too many synths and not enough instruments. But I suppose it's not that bad. I've enjoyed some of the tracks when they've popped up at random, but I can say that about just about every record I've ever recorded. So judge for yourself by downloading Christmas Party (Hitbound Records for Radio Shack, 51-3010, 1983). Oh, for the search engines, the other artists on this record are Mary MacGregor, Merilee Rush and someone named Ensemble.