Jose Ferrer - Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Clause

This 1960 record was issued in the USA and Australia, there is a reply record to this, Yes Santa Claus. There is a Virginia.

 JOSE FERRER - Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1960)

Johnny Alvin - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

Sorry this track does not seem to be on YouTube, it may be there among the hundreds of Alvin & the Chipmunks version of this song, this track is on a par with "Santa Wrecked My 'Lectric Train Set"

Hollyhill Singers - Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby

 

 

 This USA only release from 1964, is the only release by the the Hollyhill Singers though they did have an earlier release under the name The Cherryhill Trio. 

In a conversation with my wife recently, it was mentioned about the sausage rolls and mince pies my mother and sisters cooked n Christmas Eve, being the only boy in the family since my brother died, I was not taught the dark art of pastry making, after lunch on Christmas Eve I would be banished from the kitchen, to watch the TV on my own, I always seem to remember there being carol concerts on both channels, I never knew what went on in the kitchen that afternoon, but after what seemed hours I would be presented with a sausage roll and a mince pie, the excitement Christmas had begun, the pastry was always like concrete knowing no better they were eaten, I don't recall having any more over the Christmas period, the bulk of the bake would still be around well after Christmas, sometime in February they would be thrown out, this scenario was repeated every year, one Christmas my girlfriend who would later be my wife was there, she could not believe what was served up, and asked are they always like this, I replied yes, the next year she cooked me some mince pies and sausage rolls these were so much better and more edible than my mothers offerings, that I never ate any of my mothers mince pies or sausage rolls again, nowadays we eat so few mince pies and sausage rolls that we tend to buy them ready made.       

Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby, The Hollyhill Singers, 1964

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.

 Johnny Alvin - Santa Claus Wrecked My 'Lectric Train (1958)

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

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'

 Isla St Clair - Christmas Dream

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