Forgotten Christmas and Favorites for YOU! Jesse, Gene, Phil, Elvis, Fats, Jerry, Dion, 4 Seasons

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CHRISTMAS OLDIES ARE TIMELESS JESSE BELVIN I Want You Christmas

The VENTURES -‘Snowflakes’ ala Greensleeves upbeat instrumental

CHARLES BROWN’s ‘Please Come Home for Christmas’ has to be in the top 10 of all Christmas songs

Not sure if Gene had any Christmas hits but there’s nothing more Christmas than this beautiful rare version of the Lord’s Prayer

A rarity from Gene Pitney, appropriate for Christmas

SOLOMON BURKE – Presents for Christmas

For a change of pace let’s look back at this wonderful interview from probably the late 70s with GENE PITNEY done by the equally wonderful Canadian DJ RED ROBINSON…DEFINITELY FITTING FOR CHRISTMAS… in which a very honest Pitney speaks frankly how music and the times changed from the 60s to the 70s-and not for the better
Christmas is timeless. While music changes along with everything else the rest of the year we come back to the tried and true standards that brung us here. How can you beat the likes of Rockin Around the Chrsitmas Tree, White Christmas (Bing, Drifters and others), Phil Spector’s classics – Phil celebrates a birthday this week!, Pretty Paper,Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, O Holy Night and so many more. Roch, Country, Pop and R and B all come together like families this one time of year… Enjoy your/our favoirtes!

IF THE PHIL SPECTOR CHRISTMAS ALBUM isn’t the best all time Christmas LP we’d like to know a better one. Here’s side 1 to start things off..

JACKIE WILSON was sometimes called the Black Elvis, with not dissimilar looks and near operatic vocal style on ballads

FOUR SEASONS, like many had thier own Christmas album with some great songs like this one , that became a hit

DION (no not Celine please) doing his great version of the Phil spector classic sung orignally by Darlene Love and Crystals. Dion has a great Christmas album out around 2009.

ELVIS’ Christmas classic ‘Blue Christmas

THE KILLER, JERRY LEE LEWIS Doing his version of Blue Christmas, originally recorded by Jim Reeves; Elvis was not the first

FATS DOMINO had his own Chirstmas album a few years back when Dion did and it was also a real sleeper that didn’t get the airplaly. How’s HIS version of ‘Blue Christmas’ here…

CHARLES BROWN, Mr. Merry Christmas Baby, with his original of “Please Come Home for Christmas’ circa 1961

THOSE GOLDEN OLDIES MEDLLEY – NICE OBSCURITIES AND VISUALS

ELVIS, TEMPTATIONS AND STEVIE WONDER

Christmas Favorites for YOU! Jesse, Gene, Phil, Elvis, Fats, Jerry, Dion, 4 Seasons

Remembering JEAN SHEPHERD and his Christmas (Eve) Story

Remembering JEAN SHEPHERD and his

Christmas (Eve) Story

Great writeup by cofounder of Steely Dan about a pioneer of talk radio, when radio was still real fun and the ‘friend’ you’d take under your covers via transistor and go to sleep with. Didn’t know until now that Jean Shepherd has since become, perhaps, more known for his connection to The Christmas Story movie than the wildly popular ‘hip’ early talk show on NEW YORK’ s powerhouse, WOR. We grew up 3,000 miles away from where Shepherd reigned and never heard the man until recently, though we had many of our own out West ( Bob Sherwood, Al Jazzbeaux Collins, Russ the Moose Ssyracuse, Bobby Dale, even Ira Blue, but perhaps no one person who could put it all together in one ascerbic session like Jean Shepherd.Here’s Fagen, who can talk much more intelligently about Shepherd than we can

By Donald Fagen

On Christmas Eve, TBS will again present its annual 24-hour marathon of Bob Clark’s modern classic, A Christmas Story. Wrapping presents while watching Ralphie pine for a Red Riding BB gun has become a holiday tradition as beloved and durable as candy canes and eggnog. Yet the author and narrator of A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd, had a deeper legacy of enchanting, subtly barbed storytelling as a longtime voice on nightly radio. In this piece from December 2008, Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagenrecounts growing up in suburban New Jersey enthralled by Shepherd’s radio show.

Remembering JEAN SHEPHERD and his Christmas (Eve) Story

Jean Shepherd

If you know Jean Shepherd’s name, it’s probably in connection with the now-classic film A Christmas Story, which is based on a couple of stories in his book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. He also does the compelling voice-over narration. On Christmas, TBS will continue its tradition of presenting a 24-hour Christmas Storymarathon. There are annual fan conventions devoted to the film— released 25 years ago this Thanksgiving— and the original location in Cleveland has been turned into a museum. But long before A Christmas Story was made, Shepherd did a nightly radio broadcast on WOR out of Manhattan that enthralled a generation of alienated young people within range of the station’s powerful transmitter. Including me: I was a spy for Jean Shepherd.

In the late ’50s, while Lenny Bruce was beginning his climb to holy infamy in jazz clubs on the West Coast, Shepherd’s all-night monologues on WOR had already gained him an intensely loyal cult of MORE

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Charles Brown, Jackie Wilson, Jack Benny Close Out Christmas, Coupons

There was, or, is only one CHARLES BROWN, great blues singer/piano player with Johnny Moore’s group in the 40s and 50s, who disappeared for years only to emerge from obscurity, thanks largely to Danny Caron. I was lucky to live in the San Francisco area during that time of Brown’s reemergence and witnessed not only a great artist but a wonderful person who shared his colorful history and thoughts during his concert lovefests, circa 1990s. Christmas hasn’t been the same since Brown passed a few years back . …. Then we have the great JACKIE WILSON, Mr. ‘R&B Opera’ singer, who turned pop music into some incredible vocal gymnastics as we here in ‘O Holy night.’ Nice to be able to go back and bring back these greats from time to time.. Merry Crhistmas, Baby, as Chares would say.

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December24, 2011

“Life is like a mirror, we get the best results
when we smile at it.” ~Author Unknown”For every minute you are angry, you
lose sixty seconds of happiness”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To some extent, conformity is insanity”
– John Nash

“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking”
– William James

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and
believe, the mind of man can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Use Coupons and You’ll $ave Money.”

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Here are a few Christmas favorites and a Jukebox of tunes while you shop but first, how about a ‘Coupon Song’? Yes, there are many now on the web with Coupons as big as they are. This is about the best of the lot, which isn’t saying much, but perhaps you’ll enjoy it. If not, move on to Bing Crosby and ohers…This is so bad the dog starts leaving the room and barking…But first here’s another episode of me Christmas Shopping B.C. (before coupons) so I had to do whatever it takes to scrimp and save, Enjoy! -JBclick

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TOP 13 HOLIDAY OLDIES (Food) SONGS plus Top Christmas Rarities

Rare Video you can dance the TURKEY TROT to along with LITTLE EVA

and the girls (from SHINDIG, March 3, 1965)

TOP 13 HOLIDAY FOOD OLDIES SONGS

So. food themed music ‘Turkey Trot’ by Little Eva and “Mashed Potatoe Time’ by Dee Dee Sharp …Nice background music for the family and tell them they can continue listening when they get back home ‘over the river and through the woods’ Just tap the JUKEBOX and even select your favorite song @ www.OldiesCountry.blogspot.com , then check out some more, at the bottom of page – and the very bottom see and hear Dee Dee Sharp doing a slightly difference dance tune than Turkey Trot, ‘MASHED POTATO TIME’ Now, heres wishing you a nice, long, music-filled Christmas Holiday!

Below are some more ‘food themed’ songs, courtesy of Bill Herald of Examiner.com:

“LET’S TURKEY TROT” (Little Eva, 1963) was a No. 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for Little Eva. a North Carolina vocalist who was discovered by songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Her biggest hjt was “The Loco-Motion” (No. 1, 1962).
“MASHED POTATO TIME” (Dee Dee Sharp, 1962). a song with an appropriate title for the Thanksgiving food topic, climbed to the No. 2 spot in the spring of 1962. The singer, born Diane LaRue in Philadelphia, began as a backing vocalist for Cameo Records.
“BREAD AND BUTTER” (The Newbeats, 1964) went to the No. 2 spot on Billboard for a trio that featured the falsetto voice of Texan Larry Henley along with backup singers, Marc and Dean Mathis from Georgia.
“CANNED HAM” (Norman Greenbaum, 1970) was the follow-up to the vocalists huge hit “Spirit In The Sky” (No. 3, 1970). It attained No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1970 for the Massachusetts native, who moved to Los Angeles at age 24.
“APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE” (Jay & The Techniques, 1967) was a No. 6 song on the national pop charts in the summer of 1967. The integrated group, headed by Jay Proctor, was from Allentown, Pa.
“SNOWMAN, SNOWMAN SWEET POTATO NOSE” (The Jaynetts, 1963) was an uncharted follow-up to “Sally Go Round The Roses” (No. 2, 1963) for a Bronx girl group was formed by producer Zell Sanders.
“VEGETABLES” (The Beach Boys, 1968) was was performed by the legendary surf-rock group from Hawthorne, Calif., as part of the “Smiley Smile” album.
“GREEN ONIONS” (Booker T & The MGs, 1962) went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a group composed of Memphis studio musicians, headed by keyboardist Booker T. Jones. And “MG” stands for Memphis Group.
“GRAVY” (Dee Dee Sharp, 1962) was an appropriate follow-up to her “Mashed Potato Time” hit, and it managed to reach the No. 9 position on the Billboard Hot 100.
“HOME COOKIN’‘” (Junior Walker & The All-Stars, 1969), while it doesn’t refer to a specific food item, it’s included because of its title, and the single was a No. 42 Billboard charter for the South Bend, Ind., group.
“THE TURKEY” (Paul Revere & The Raiders, 1971) was actually the B-side of a Top 40 single (“Birds of a Feather”) for a group — featuring lead singer Mark Lindsay — formed in Portland, Ore., in 1960.
“CHERRY PIE” (Marvin & Johnny, 1954) was an original hit for the Los Angeles doo-wop duo of Marvin Phillips and Emory “Johnny” Perry. Six years later, it was a No. 11 national charter for Skip & Flip.