Saturday, November 29, 2025

A Cartoon Christmas 2

I've eaten all the cereal, but I've got a bowl full of neon-colored milk left, so I'm going to pour in some more cereal (and another heaping spoonful of sugar) to watch the next cartoon with. What's up next on the Magnavox? Ugh, Rainbow Brite, that's for girls. I'd get up and change the channel, but I'm too lazy and besides, we only have three channels and the other two haven't started showing the cartoons yet, one is still showing the daily farm report and the other one hasn't even signed on yet. Gonna be a long day. This is Rainbow Brite-Christmas (Buena Vista Records/Hallmark Cards 2111, Stereo, 1985). Ooh, this one is on a Disney label, though I doubt they really had much to do with it. I think that mention of Hallmark Cards is the bigger clue here as to who was in charge. This was a marketing push to sell, sell, sell, sell from back in the days when you could push product through a cartoon aimed at kids. But enough yelling at clouds, go download and enjoy this one. Murky & Lurky are my favorite here.

1. Rainbow Brite & The Color Kids-A Gift Of Love  
2. The Color Kids-Jingle Bells  
3. Twink, Murky & Lurky-The Twelve Days Of Christmas  
4. Rainbow Brite & The Color Kids-Silent Night  
5. The Color Kids-Joy To The World  
6. Murky & Lurky-Christmas In The Pits  
7. Rainbow Brite & The Color Kids-The First Noel  
8. Rainbow Brite, The Color Kids & Sprite Chorus-Deck The Hall  
9. The Color Kids-Christmas Medley: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Hark The Herald Angels Sing; O Christmas Tree  
10. The Color Kids-We Wish You A Merry Christmas

MEGA

11 comments:

  1. Murky and Lurky singing "Christmas in the Pits" sounds like the Rainbow BriteTM version of Motorhead.

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  2. I'll check that song out, but I fear for my A1C number.

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  3. What a catching album this was Ernie. Whoever these characters are, I have no idea.
    And yes, Murky & Lurky-Christmas In The Pits, had be dancing, sadly not rocking around the Christmas Tree, as I was setting things up. Maybe, if I have a lull in activity, never mind, that will not happen. Besides you have shared so many good things this year, I hope, hehee, I doubt I will have a lull anywhere.

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    1. It's a bit more fun than some of the others. You can tell when people put some time and effort into these records.

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    2. Besides, it comes from Disney. Quality goes a long way.

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    3. Not sure how much involvement Disney had with this, other than the distribution But it had to be a bit higher quality for them to distribute it, so point taken.

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    4. It seemed at some point Disney was one of the Syndication distributors for the Domestic market. There are many of them, I guessing for various markets thoughout the world. It seems like, Disney was involved at this time when this album was released?

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