16-Mistletoe
Update-4 Jan 2023-Added tracklist to allow searching.
1. Jack Owens, Sammy Cowling, Eddie Ballantine And His Orchestra-The Mistletoe Song
2. Eddie Howard And His Orchestra-Uncle Mistletoe
3. Lou Gold & His Orchestra-Vocal Chorus, Buddy Lane-Under The Mistletoe (Un Beso De Navidad)
4. Three Reinerts And Sussie Med Don Gais' Trio-Underneath The Misteltoe
5. The Keynotes, Vocal, With Primo Scala And His Banjo And Accordian Orchestra-The Mistletoe Kiss
6. Dick Robertson And His Orchestra-Under the Mistletoe
7. Mickey Carter And The Riff-Tones-Underneath The Mistletoe
You've been quite successful in panning for Xmas gold. I wonder if any of the young would know what standing under the mistletoe was all about. We who remember will get a kick out of these. Thanks for theming your Internet Archive finds so thoughtfully.
ReplyDeleteThe best one here, I think, is Three Reinerts & Sussie, and not just because they spelled it Misteltoe. Hard to make out the lyrics beneath the 78 fuzz and the accents, but it's kinda funny. Excellent candidate for a cover version!
ReplyDeleteI love records with short-term Christmas creations like Uncle Mistletoe. Songwriters just kept trying to come up with with next Rudolph, I guess, although in this case it seems to have been a department store mascot. Around here we had "Mister Jingaling." He had a song himself:
ReplyDeleteMr. Jingaling, how you ting-a-ling,
Keeper of the keys.
On Halle's seventh floor, we'll be looking for
You to turn the key.
That false rhyme always bothered me. I was a sensitive kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jingeling
ReplyDeleteBuster, please tell me you have a recording of his theme song that you can share!!!
I don't think there is one; I remember it from the ads and TV show.
ReplyDeleteThis YouTube playlist has the history of the song and even one of the Mr. Jingelings singing it (spoiler: he couldn't sing).
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr.+Jingeling
ReplyDeleteWait, mistletoe stays green all year? I thought the stuff was celebrated for its white berries--the white berries that somehow cause human osculation or something. Isn't holly green all year too? I'm confused!
I thought this one was also packed with nothing but swell tunes. The rips you share sound really great as well! Thank you for the tremendous work you've done locating, cleaning up and "curating" these old 78's!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments, folks.
ReplyDeleteJeepy-Yes, green all year, and you can see it up in the otherwise bare trees. Dunno about the white berries, but maybe. I guess holly is also green year-round, but it has red berries. And then there's ivy, so it fits in there, too, somewhere...
Moahaha-The rips kinda are what they are. I'm getting them from the Archive, and they're getting the records via donations, so beggars like us can't be choosers. But I think most of them are excellent, though some of them leave something to be desired.