Stop in, look around, have a drink and crank some tunes. I'll be posting some songs ripped from records, some out of print and hard to find stuff, some songs by artists you should be listening to, and a few mixes here and there.
Do not interupt The Fonz durring his Christmas photo session. Richie tried and ended up in the photo. Again, this wasn't really a Christmas episode, just a small mention.
Tell It To The Marines - Season 3, Episode 14, Aired: 12/16/1975
It's not exactly a Christmas episode, but a reference to Christmas. The guys have a German general in their barracks against his will. They are desperately trying to get him to tell them where this next bombing will be. Their plan is to make him think he is dying, so he will send a message back to Berlin. They tell him he won't last the three months to Christmas so they will celebrate it early. Hilarity ensues...
The Prisoner's Prisoner - Season 1, Episode 6, Aired: 10/22/1965
Because nobody demanded it. I'm bringing them back anyway. I was on the fence about doing the Christmas sitcom soundbyes again this year. I hit most of my favorites last year and didn't come across too many new ones over the year. Then a couple of weeks ago I received a very nice comment from an anonymous visitor saying how much he enjoyed the soundbytes last Christmas. Somebody was listening to them? Cool! That gets me charged up. He told me about two Hogan's Heroes episodes with Christmas references. Awesome! I looked them up and BANG! I was excited again. Starting soon I'll be posting more soundbytes. Upcoming posts will be Hogans Heroes, The Dukes of Hazzard, Alf, Happy Days and even a Three Stooges short. If you have a request, please drop me a line and I'll try and find it. Also, all of the soundbytes posted last season are still up, so go back to December 2010 and look them over if you haven't already. I even made a compilation of the best - Volume 5 of Check The Cool Wax - Christmas TV Burnout.
Thanks for the requests to repost this mix. It's fun to know people would still like to hear it. This mix was made five years ago using (mostly) songs that were not yet available on CD. Listening to it again I'm pretty proud of it. So much time went into ripping all of those records in. Life is just too busy these days to keep that up... The songs take me back to listening to Christmas music on the family record player and going to the Christmas party at the town library. They remind me of Christmas shopping at stores that are no longer around and Christmas decorations that used to adorn every store and street corner... Remember how decked out stores would get back then? I miss that. Maybe this mix will help jog a few memories for you too. It's dusty mix of Christmas Wax from the island of misfit songs. I hope to get to another vinyl Christmas mix someday, but for now, this will have to do.
Merry Christmas everybody!
1 :: CHECK THE COOL WAX :: KING AD-ROCK 2 :: HOLIDAY ON ICE “A RIDE WITH SANTA” :: WALT JACKOBS 3 :: SLEIGH RIDE :: LENNY DEE 4 :: SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN :: THE THREE SUNS 5 :: NUTTY JINGLE BELLS :: AL HIRT 6 :: CHRISTMAS ALL OVER THE WORLD :: JIM NABORS 7 :: ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS :: LIBERACE 8 :: ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE :: MIRROR IMAGE 9 :: WINTER WONDERLAND :: THE GOLDDIGGERS 10 :: THE CHRISTMAS SONG :: SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL ‘66 11 :: SNOW :: CLAUDINE LONGET 12 :: WHAT CHILD IS THIS? :: THE BORDER BRASS 13 :: WHAT SANTA WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS :: WALT JACOBS 14 :: THE REINDEER BOOGIE :: HANK SNOW 15 :: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS :: BUCK OWENS & SUSAN RAYE 16 :: SANTA’S BIG PARADE :: THE LOUVIN BROHERS 17 :: I’M GONNA TELL SANTA CLAUS ON YOU :: FARON YOUNG 18 :: OLE TEX KRINGLE :: TEX RITTER 19 :: WHITE CHRISTMAS :: HANK THOMPSON 20 :: TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS DAY :: BUCK OWENS & SUSAN RAYE 21 :: SANTA AND THE KIDS :: CHARLIE PRIDE 22 :: HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS :: BIG TINY LITTLE 23 :: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER :: FRED WARING AND THE PENNSYLVANIANS 24 :: LET’S TRIM THE CHRISTMAS TREE :: LINE MATERIAL 25 :: HO, HO IT’S CHRISTMAS :: The CAROLEERS 26 :: SANTA CLAUS’ PARTY :: LES BAXTER OCHESTRA & CHORUS 27 :: MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS :: CAPTAIN KANGAROO 28 :: MISTER SANTA :: LENNY DEE 29 :: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN :: THE CAROLEERS 30 :: CHRISTMAS CHIMES ARE CALLING SANTA :: RANKIN/BASS 31 :: CAROL OF THE BELLS :: HANNA BARBERA ORGANS & CHIMES 32 :: SILENT NIGHT :: KOREAN ARTIST 33 :: HOLIDAY ON ICE “A RIDE WITH SANTA” (FINALE) :: WALT JACOBS 34 :: CHRISTMAS LULLABY :: CARY GRANT
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.
-------------------
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
