The Last Christmas Mix of 2006

This is the oldest Christmas mix that I still have - a present from a friend in San Francisco:

NANCY REAGAN'S FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CAROLS

01) Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong
02) Santa Got Stuck (In My Chimney) - Ella Fitzgerald
03) Jack Benny Christmas Bit - Jack Benny
04) Jingle Bells - Don Carlos, G. Spenser
05) J.E.S.U.S. Commercial
06) Jesus Hits (Like An Atom Bomb) - Acme String Association
07) Merry Christmas, Everybody - Bob Rivers Comedy Group
08) Happy Holidays - Ray Noble
09) Santa Baby - Madonna
10) Democrats On Holiday -The Washington Steps
11) Christmastime Is Here (The Chipmunk Song) - Alvin & The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian)
12) Christmas Boogie - Canned Heat w/Alvin & The Chipmunks
13) Smothers Brother Xmas Carol - The Smothers Brothers
14) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Ronettes
15) The Christmas Song - Billy Crystal/Nat King Cole
16) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
17) I Wanna Spend Christmas With Elvis - Debbie Dabney
18) Christmas Greeting/Santa, Bring My Baby Back To Me - Elvis Presley
19) Christmas Is Coming - The Muppets
20) Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
21) Zat U, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong
22) Mambo, Santa, Mambo - The Enchanters
23) Droid Christmas - Star Wars Christmas

Thanks for all of the comments and suggestions - hope that you all have a Great Holiday.

New posts will begin in the New Year.

Millennium Christmas Mix

MILLENNIUM CHRISTMAS

01) Must Be Santa - The Billy Nayer Show
02) Edward Scissorhands (suite) - Danny Elfman
03) Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
04) Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Smithereens
05) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Revillos
06) Christmastime - Aimee Mann/Michael Penn
07) Gloria - Elastica
08) A Drew Carey Christmas - The Drew Carey Show
09) Carol of the Bells - John Williams
10) Star of Bethlehem - John Williams
11) Who Says There Ain't No Santa Claus? - Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds
12) Scrooged (suite) - Danny Elfman
13) Thanks For Christmas - XTC
14) Merry Christmas, Baby - Southern Culture On The Skids
15) Jingle Bells (The Simpsons) - Robert Goulet
16) Home Alone (suite) - John Williams
17) Christmas In Heaven (The Meaning of Life) - Monty Python
18) Nut Rocker - B. Bumble & The Stingers
19) The Closing of the Year (Toys) - Wendy & Lisa w/Seal

Enjoy!

Bummer Xmas Mixes

For those of you who can't stand the saccharine sweetness of the Holidays, here's some alternative listening...

FESTIVUS '04
"A lump of coal for your Festivus sock"

1). Xmas Is For Mugs - Graham Parker
2). Back Door Santa - Clarence Carter
3). What Do The Lonely Do At Xmas? - The Emotion
4). 12 Days of Waffle House - The Waffle House Singers
5). Who Took The Merry Out of Xmas? - The Staples Singers
6). Merry Xmas From The Family - Robert Earl Keen

This compilation was a gift from the lovely and talented A.J. Michel of Syndicate Product, using Festivus as the focus of this tight little package of Grinchiness... it's become one of my favorites.

Thought I'd add a bonus - part II of a Millennium Christmas Tape mix I did a few years ago, Side B focusing on "Bummer Xmas" songs:

MILLENNIUM CHRISTMAS MIX
Bummer edition

01) Christmas Spirit?! - The Wailers
02) Don't Believe In Christmas - The Sonics
03) Santa Came Home Drunk - Clyde Lasley & the Cadillac Baby Specials
04) Christmas - Remy Zero
05) Christmas Eve Can Kill You - The Everly Brothers
06) Please Come Home For Christmas - Southside Johnny Lyon
07) Christmas - The Posies
08) Christmas In Vermont - Ed's Redeeming Qualities

Horny Holidays! - Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors

Definitely NOT for the little kids!
well, Track 16, at least.

1. Happy Birthday
2. Trim Yo" Tree
3. Good King Wenceslas
4. Mr. Grinch
5. Head Crushing Yuletide Sing-A-Long
6. It"s Christmas Time
7. Jingle Bells
8. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
9. Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
10. Run Rudolph Run
11. We Three Kings
12. Everyday Will Be A Holiday
13. Sleigh Ride
14. Little Man Song
15. Go Tell It On A Mountain
16. Twas The Night Before Christmas

Horny Holidays to All!

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Music: Frederick Hollander
Lyrics: Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

01) Opening Credits/Butterfly Ballet - Orchestra
02) Ten Happy Fingers - Mary Healy & Tommy Rettig*
03) Piano Concerto (Ten Happy Fingers Variation) - Orchestra
04) Dream Stuff - Peter Lind Hayes & Tommy Rettig*
05) Hypnotic Duel - Hans Conried
06) Get Together Weather - Hans Conried, Mary Healy, Peter Lind Hayes
07) Because We're Kids - Tommy Rettig*
08) Dungeon Ballet - Orchestra
09) We Are Victorious - Chorus/Dr. T's Soldiers
10) Elevator Song - Elevator Operator
11) Dressing Song - Do-Me-Do Duds - Hans Conried & Chorus
12) End Credit - Orchestra

(* actually Tony Butala did Tommy's vocals)

Outtakes - Recorded, but not used in film

13) My Favorite Note - Hans Conried
14) Oh! We Are The Guards - Chorus/Dr. T's Soldiers
15) I Will Not Get Involved, Part 1 - Peter Lind Hayes
16) I Will Not Get Involved, Part 2 - Peter Lind Hayes
17) Grindstone - Peter Lind Hayes
18) Money - Peter Lind Hayes
19) Terwilliker - Hans Conried & Mary Healy
20) I Will Not Go To Sleep - Hans Conried
21) Many Questions - Mary Healy
22) One Moment Ago - Chorus
23) One Moment Ago - Orchestra

I hope this one makes a few people happy.
Being an 'archival' recording, some of the sound quality isn't pristine, especially on some of the outtake selections... I did do my best, however.
For more information about the film, and some RA samples of other deleted songs, you might check out this Dr. T. fan site.

He's in the drum.

I'll try to get a couple of Christmas things up, then I'll take a short break until after the new year.

John Barry

In the mid- to late- 60's, Columbia Records released several John Barry compilation albums, two of them being JOHN BARRY CONDUCTS HIS GREATEST MOVIE HITS and READY WHEN YOU ARE, J.B.




In the late 80's, when labels began raiding their back catalogs to issue on CD, one of the many John Barry compilations was THE FILM MUSIC OF JOHN BARRY, which was comprised of the bulk of both albums and a third compilation LP.





Since the CD is still available & easy to find, I collected the 9 tracks from both albums that were left off of the CD

01) Afternoon
02) Dutchman
03) The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair
04) Midnight Cowboy
05) Romance for Guitar and Orchestra - Theme (from DEADFALL)
06) The More Things Change
07) Try (from OHMSS)
08) Who Will Buy My Yesterdays?
09) You Only Live Twice

Selections 2, 3, 9 - from JOHN BARRY CONDUCTS HIS GREATEST MOVIE HITS LP
Selections 1,4-8 - from READY WHEN YOU ARE, J.B. LP

THE GIRL is a theme from a British shampoo commercial that ran in the mid 60's, while Dutchman is from the score of Anthony Harvey's film of LeRoi Jones' play.

Go get it.