23-Christmas Characters
Update-5 Jan 2023-Added a tracklist for searchability.
1. Arthur Godfrey And The Chordettes, Orchestra Under The Direction Of Archie Bleyer-(Sweet Angie) The Christmas Tree Angel
2. Eddy Howard And His Orchestra-Ebenezer Scrooge
3. Roy Rogers (King Of The Cowboys) With Male Quartet And Orchestra-Frosty The Snow Man
4. Burl Ives-Percy Faith Orchestra And Chorus-Grandfather Kringle
5. Julius La Rosa-Orchestra Conducted By Archie Bleyer-Jingle Dingle
6. The Honey Dreamers With Ray Carter & His Orchestra-Rootie Tootie Tootie (The Kewtee Bear)
7. Ted Black Orchestra-Vocal: Dick Edwards-Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. The Crew-Cuts With David Carroll And His Orchestra-Twinkle Toes
9. Molly Bee With Orchestra Conducted By Van Alexander-Willy Claus (Little Son Of Santa Claus)
10. Gayla Peevey, Orchestra Under The Direction Of Norman Leyden-Are My Ears On Straight
11. Bobby Sabatino And The Charles Kenny Orchestra-Funny Little Snow Man
12. Dale Evans With Orchestra-Fuzzy Wuzzy
13. Red Buttons-Orchestra Under The Direction Of Elliot Lawrence-Little Johnny Snowball
14. Alma Cogan With Chorus And Orchestra Conducted By Frank Cordell-Mrs. Santa Claus
15. Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) The Singing Cowboy-Punkinhead (The Little Bear)
16. Spike Jones And His City Slickers Featuring The Bell Sisters-Socko The Smallest Snowball
17. Eileen Barton With The Jimmy Leyden Singers, With Chorus And Orchestra Directed By Norman Leyden-The Little Match Girl
18. Owen Bradley And His Quintet-Uncle Mistletoe
Frosty the Snowman was the only one who achieved any fame, right? I don't remember hearing about "Socko the Smallest Snowball" before, but maybe I overlooked him because he was so small.
ReplyDeleteAnother great assortment. 'Socko' is on the other side of "Barnyard Christmas. That is one 78 I own.
ReplyDeleteI would have smelled the barnyard Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThat Barnyard\Socko is one of the rarer Spike Jones records, in my opinion. Only rarer one I can think of is I Hope The South Wins The War For Christmas.
ReplyDeleteas long as it isn't "chrissy the christmas mouse"
ReplyDeletewe're good. THAT one drove me nuts as a kid.
Thanks,
Chrissy isn't the first. There was a Santa Mouse sometime in the mid-sixties, though I'd have to research it a bit. I think Burl Ives did a cover of it.
ReplyDelete"Socko" and "Barnyard Christmas" are part of a Jasmine 2-CD collection devoted to the Bell Sisters, the girl-group featured on Spike's single. My favorite of all those City Slickers rarities is "I Want Eddie Fisher for Christmas"--far better than Betty Johnson's. To this day, I don't know why RCA hasn't gathered all the Spike Jones Christmas records into one collection. A few years ago, I thought of starting a reissue label, making the complete Spike Jones' RCA Christmas recordings my first release. The label refused to license them to me and I gave up my dream. I'm glad I did because I would have sold two copies of my CD before it was pirated. Jasmine also has an Arthur Godfrey collection that is loaded with great Christmas goodies.
ReplyDeleteJasmine has the benefit of not having to license anything, they just take it. And I believe both versions of Eddie Fisher are in the pile this season.
ReplyDeleteI still have grand plans to do an RCA version of Capitol's Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails series. But I couldn't share it, too much of the stuff is on CD or streaming or download now. But there's great stuff that I think would add up to more than the sum of it's parts. :)
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yep, on the Burl Ives Christmas album
ReplyDeleteis Santa mouse. That one is fine by me.
So great. Just, so great.
ReplyDeleteIt's good stuff. Thanks for visiting the archives! :)
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