Friday, December 20, 2024

Johnny Alvin - Santa Claus Wrecked My Wectric Train


A 1958 release, you can work out what he is singing as the backing singers sing and pronounce the words correctly.

In the October budget Rachel Thieves announced a 1p reduction to the duty on beer, a couple of weeks ago the price of a pint in one of the pubs I sometimes do the quiz in went up by 25p, it has already been mentioned that the price my have to go up by a similar amount to pay for a couple of the other measures, introduced in the Budget. I used to be a heavy drinker but stopped drinking many years ago, I had to give up the pub quiz a couple of years ago as the gas & electricity bills almost doubled overnight coincidently the amount they went up was about what I spent on the pub quiz, so by sacrificing the pub quiz I could afford the increase with no further hardship.

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Larry Grayson - Who's Stuffing Your Turkey This Christmas

 


As mentioned in the Isla St Clair post, Larry Grayson's 1975 Christmas record.

LARRY GRAYSON - 'Who's Stuffing Your Turkey This Christmas?' - 1975 45rpm

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Isla St Clair - Christmas Dream


This is the second Christmas record from Isla St Clair, Issued 18th December 1981 with only a week to go before Christmas was unlikely to generate enough sales to make the charts, at this time Isla St Clair was one of the presenters on BBC show the Generation Game with Larry Grayson.

I have not yet found a copy of her 1978 Christmas single 'Child In A Manger'


Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Go Gos - I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek

 


A 1964 release trying to cash in on the popularity of the Daleks 

I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek - The Go Go's

Every time I play this record I always think of Spike Milligans sketch with the Daleks.(this my offend)

Spike Milligan - Pakistani Daleks

Monday, December 16, 2024

Grandpa Jones - The Christmas Guest


I first came across this 1969 record on a CD of forgotten Christmas records, I eventually found a vinyl copy, this record was only released in the USA.

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Peter, Patty, Peggy & Bruce - The Happy Penguins

 


Released 1959 and disappeared into deserved obscurity, one of the Howdy Doody Christmas records from the early 1950's, has mention of a sensational Singing Penguins group was this the inspiration for this record, unfortunately there are lot of postings of the 1951 Howdy Doody - Christmas Party, the 1953 Howdy Doody and Santa Claus with the singing penguins has not been posted.
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Frank Kelly - Christmas Countdown


 First released 1983, Frank Kelly would later play the part of Father Jack in the comedy series Farther Ted, from memory I think he only has one line but often repeated " Drink".