Hey Hey It's The Monkees Christmas! (Repost)

Hi everyone. Let's get this party started shall we? I'd first like to do a re-post. The Monkees' soundbytes I posted last Christmas sounded a little hollow... I don't know what happened, but they didn't sound as good as the other show's soundbytes. Being how this is one of my favorite Christmas shows, I just had to do them over. That and the fact that my brother was making a Monkees Christmas Mix and he wanted them to sound better... Anywho... Below is the original post with the eleven new sounds. I also put them in a play list so the page doesn't have to load all of those different players.

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Today's soundbytes are from The Monkees episode creatively name The Christmas Show. It's about the prefab four being hired to watch young Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) over the holidays. The little brat doesn't believe in Christmas spirit and the boys do everything they can to help him find it. They have no luck at all until they realize they have only shown him superficial things and not peace and love. This one is for all you closet Monkees fans out there. I know there's a lot of us. They were a huge influence on The Beatles you know...

The Christmas Show - Season 2, Episode 15. Aired: December 25, 1967




Here is the cover we made for our Monkees Christmas mix. Turned out pretty cool. What do you think? Feel free to use it if you make your own Monkees Christmas Mix or send me a message and I'll get you a higher resolution version.

Glen Campbell :: Ghost On Canvas

Before I start up the regular Christmas postings, I would like to take a moment and post something. It's the newest and probably last Glen Campbell video called Ghost On Canvas. Wow! It's pretty powerful. This is to be Glen's last album, I guess he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and he is retiring. The video reflects back to the pivotal times in Glen's career with nods to Dean Martin, Elvis, The Monkees, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, his TV show and more. The video stars Paul Westerberg of (my favorites) The Replacements, the writer of the song. The director deserves a big thumbs up here too! It's beautiful.

Bring On Christmas!

The Christmas tree is up and I'm ready for Christmas!

Cheers Thanksgiving!

I thought I'd continue the tradition I started last Christmas and post some TV soundbytes for Thanksgiving. When I thought about doing this, this episode Thanksgiving Orphans instantly came to mind. For all sorts of reasons, the gang of Cheers are alone for Thanksgiving so they decide to have a Thanksgiving meal at Carla's. Tensions start to rise when the turkey takes forever to get done and it ends up in a food fight.

Thanksgiving Orpans - Season 5, Episode 9. First aired November 27, 1986

First Thanksgiving Away

Norms Out

Off White

Birdzilla

What We're Thankful For

Thanksgiving Castoffs

The following soundbytes are in the Thanksgiving episode, but they can actually be used with your Christmas soundbytes.

December 25th

Rudolph

Open Your Heart

Seasonal Blues

Planes, Trains And Automobiles Thanksgiving Soundbytes

This is one of my favorite movies so I just had to grab some soundbytes for Thanksgiving. Here we go!

Turkey Roll

Those Are The Precious Moments

Gobble-Gobble!

Bob Hope :: Thanksgiving

Today we have the Thanksgiving track from Bob Hope Holidays. Enjoy and let's give thanks.

I have also posted the Christmas and Halloween tracks in the last year if you would like to hear them.

BOB HOPE :: THANKSGIVING

Song-Poem Christmas :: Santa Goes Modern!

Wishes :: The Bird And The Bee

Let's keep this Christmas thing going! Here is a new one from one of my favorites.

FREE Christmas Jazz Album from Stella Artois

This is a great album. Starting with the artwork I had a feeling I was into something good. It's a retro jazz type feel with twist of lounge. All free from Stella Artois. Let's raise a Stella and toast them for their gift. Songs are:

Side A

Deck The Halls

Nutcracker March 

Winter Wonderland

Jingle Bells

Side B

Snowball

Baby It's Cold Outside

Let's Call It Quits

Auld Lang Syne

A few of the songs are limited to the first 500,000 downloads. Don't miss out. Get it here.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Always a day late. I had planned on posting more music and sound bytes up to Halloween, but I took a last minute offer to go to Vegas for Halloween. Had to try that at least once. I'm the Zombie Shriner... I'll be posting a bunch of stuff at Christmas and even a couple of things for Thanksgiving. Check back.

Frankie Stein :: Monster Melodies

Here are four tracks from Frankie Stein's Monster Melodies. Tracks are: All Choked Up, Doctor Spook, In A Groovy Grave and Swingin Head. I picked out the surf and twist type songs. A sax takes the lead on these, kinda wish it would have been a guitar. NOTE: this record was severely damaged, but the cover was just too cool not to post.

FRANKIE STEIN :: MONSTER MELODIES

Halloween Playlist 10-28

Los Straitjackets :: The Munsters Theme


Southern Culture On The Skids :: Zombiefied


Little Tibia And The Fibias :: The Mummy


Jim Carroll Band :: People Who Died

Lon Chaney Jr. :: Spider Baby Theme

Today we have a totally wacky one from the ever dopey Lon Chaney Jr. He really sounds like a whack job on this one. Do you think he has to try for that? I can't really think of him any other way than like Lennie from Of Mice And Men. Here he sings the opening song to Spider Baby. I labeled it as the theme, but I'm not sure that it is. This was taken from the VHS and is perfect for Halloween.

  LON CHANEY JR :: SPIDER BABY THEME

Bob Hope :: Halloween

I really wanted to keep posting these holidays throughout the year, but I both forgot and was too lazy. Starting back up again I have Bob Hope talking about Halloween. You can go back to last December's posts if you want to hear Christmas.








 BOB HOPE :: HALLOWEEN

Halloween Playlist 10-27

Danny Elfman :: This Is Halloween


Jeremy Messersmith :: Organ Donor


The Supersuckers :: Sleepy Vampire


Eels :: Fresh Blood