Trailer Trash

Let me take some time away from the soundbytes to talk about one of my favorite local bands here in Minneapolis. They are a great live band that plays western swing and they pack the house. It's really hard to describe how much fun they are to see live. Every holiday season I look forward to their Christmas shows and I can't wait to see them next weekend. They have three Christmas CDs that are now available for purchase from their website. Below are some samples of my favorites.

Mary's Boy Child

I've Shopped Everywhere

Do You Hear What I Hear (You Really Got Me)

Santa's A Spy

Night Before X-Mas Boogie

Believe me. You could do far worse for ten buck a pop.

Update

A few things... I'm still tweaking the look and layout here. Still trying to fix broken links and missing images too. If there is an older Christmas share that you can no longer download, leave me a message and I'll try and repost. Let's just keep them Christmas shares until they new year though please.

I've started adding different icons to the soundbytes that you download. No need to re-download though, you can just grab the images above and apply them yourself.

I also get a little excited, and maybe I post to many soundbytes for some shows. They're not all home runs so I'll started adding a little comment at the end of each post saying if you download just one, get this one. UPDATE: Instead of doing this, I'm just going to post a best-of mix right before Christmas...

And lastly, Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to host/post/play these soundbytes? These little Flash players start to act up if there are too many on the same page. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

brainwerk

Up next: The Flintstones, The Monkees and The Partridge Family

Christmas Mayberry Style

Christmas comes to Mayberry and makes for one of the all-time-great Christmas sitcom episodes. Andy and Barney can't leave prisoners in the jail while they have a Christmas party, so they bring the Christmas party to the jail. An ornery old coot from the town keeps causing problems until they realize he just wants to be part of the festivities. It's great. Pass me some of Aunt Bee's mashed potatoes please...

Christmas Story - Season 1, Episode 11. Aired December 19, 1960.

Got Another Bunch Of Christmas Cards


Plans For The Party


That Sounds The Best Santy Claus I Ever Heard


Andy and Ellie sing Away In A Manger

A Question To All Munsters Fans

Hey Munsters fans, I have a question for you... A couple of years ago when I was working on The Munsters Mix for my blog, I went through and watched every episode in sequential order. I remember coming across a Christmas reference and thinking that would be a great soundbyte in the next Christmas Mix I post here (if there ever is one). Anyone have any idea what this is or which episode it's in? It's not a Christmas episode, but a mention at the end of an episode. I totally drawing a blank... I am NOT talking about the abomination they call The Munster's Scary Little Christmas from 1996...

Christmas With The Fonz

This is one of my personal favorite Christmas TV episodes. The Fonz brags about going to his cousins house for Christmas but Richie sees him eating ravioli out of a can instead. The Cunningham's trick Fonzie into coming to their house saying to celebrate by telling him they need help fixing their yard Santa. A real tear jerker! The best part is Fonzie reading Twas The Night Before Christmas. If you only download one file below, download that one. Happy Days indeed.

Guess Who's Coming To Christmas - Season 2, Episode 11. Aired December 17 1974.

This Christmas Is Strictly For The Family


Ralph, Potsie and Richie's Mistletoe Trick


Fonzie's Christmas Gifts


Fonzie Can Fix It


Merry Christmas Fonzie


A Christmas Tree Gotta Have Lights


Fonzie Reads Twas The Night Before Christmas

Merry Christmas Gilligan

These three soundbytes are from the episode Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk from 1964. Season 1, Episode 12. This really isn't just a Christmas episode, it's more of a flash back remembering their first day on the island. Skipppeerrr!

Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk - Season 1, Episode 12. Aired 12/19/1964.

Christmas On The Island


Santa On The Island?


Merry Christmas Gilligan

Christmas Soundbytes!

I was thinking. Where can I find myself in this sharing community? I've been gone for a few years... I really want to post some Christmas music and records, but there are far too many people out there that do it way better than I can. People like Ernie, The King of Jingaling, Erick and many others. There's not to many out of print Christmas records out there that someone hasn't posted. So I started thinking of other mediums besides music and came up with TV. TV soundbytes. I posted some sound bytes a few years ago from The Munsters, Pee-Wee Herman and beach movies with Frankie and Annette. They went over great. So that is what I'll be sharing this Christmas season. I love soundbytes. They are great on your iPod when it's on random. They pop up between songs here and there and it's really fun. I'm going to focus on TV sitcoms at first and I'll be posting some later today. Please stop back. Up first is Gilligan's Island, Happy Days and The Andy Griffith Show. All will be Christmas themed. I hope you enjoy them. Please feel free to leave some suggestions and spread the word.

I'm baaack!

Yes. I know. I've said it many time and haven't followed through... This time I mean it. I will never be at the level I was a few years back posting multiple albums per week. Kids and life just take up too much time for that. But I will be posting interesting and unique albums and pop culture crap when I find them. Coming back to this blog is like moving back into an old house that needs lots of work. Links are broken and images are gone... I'll try and clean things up over the next few weeks and give this old place a face lift. My servers have all changes so very few links to music remain. If there is something you want me to repost, just drop me a message and please be patient.

Now begins the long, up-hill battle to have music lovers come back and visit my site. For those of you that stumble upon this, Thanks for stopping by.

Pee-Wee Is Back LIVE!

If you live in or by LA, get your tickets here. I hope this goes on tour. Hey Pee-Wee! Come to Minneapolis!

A Great Image For Elvis Week

Can't Stay Away

I have got so many new and cool records lately that I just have to start sharing them again. I going to try and aim for September. Probably just one or two albums a month so don't get too excited. Thanks for checking back.

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year & Happy Valentines Day

Hey everyone. Any and all links that are still working for downloads, won't be working much longer. The host is moving his servers and they will be going bye-bye. I really don't have the time to keep this blog going (as if you hadn't noticed). It has been GREAT. I will be posting here again someday. I know I'll get the bug to starting posting albums again sometime. If you do see something here you really have to have, drop me a line and I'll get it for you. Signing off. Brainwerk has left the building.

July: Conquer The Video Craze

Those crazy kids and their arcades... What's next? Video games in the home? Listen up on eight tracks giving you tips to beat your favorite games including; Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man, Defender and Tempest. This is pretty funny actually. Especially the narrator trying to explain the Pac-Man path to complete the stage. Great sound bytes. Enjoy.

CONQUER THE VIDEO CRAZE

June: Grasshopper On Wax

Hey everyone! Keeping up with my break-neck pace of one album a month seems to have gotten away from me. In the next few days I'll be posting my June and July record rips. Up first is the soundtrack from Kung Fu. This is one of my favorite albums covers of all. Simple yet powerful. The flute on the record gets a little old. The highlights are definitely the David Carradine soundbytes.

JIM HELMS :: KUNG FU SOUNDTRACK

May: Ann-Margret Sings Some Disco

Everybody put out a disco album so why not Ann-Margret? Dolly did it. Telly did it. Even Kiss put out I Was Made For Loving You with a disco beat. Here is Ann-Margret's self titled 5 track album from 1980. Pretty much the tail end of the disco era. I hope you enjoy it.


ANN-MARGRET :: ANN-MARGRET