Matt McGinn - The Ibrox Disaster

Released 1971 in the wake of the Ibrox Disaster in which 66 people died, this was the second disaster, the first was in 1902 when a stand collapsed killing 25 and injuring 500 more.    

Happy New Year

 Matt McGinn - the Ibrox disaster

Bees - Toy Bell

For some reason I always thought this 1954 was the original version of My Ding A Ling until I discovered the 1952 Dave Bartholomew version. 

When the Chuck Berry Version of this song was in the UK charts under the title 'My Ding A Ling', the clean up TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse commented on the record saying 'its disgusting, It's all about masturbating' sales went up.

 

bees my ding - YouTube

 

Marty Feldman - A Joyous Time Of Year

Released 29th November 1968, Marty Feldman with Tim Brook-Taylor also had another record released 15th November 1968 on the Pye label.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

 MARTY FELDMAN - A Joyous Time Of The Year - 1968 45rpm

Mike Harding - Christmas 1914

Released 1977, the Christmas Truce happened in World War One, Mike Harding has the correct year, I have come across records giving it as 1915 even 1916. When I was young there were many veterans from the First World War around, sadly the last of then died a few years ago, now age is taking the survivors of the Second World War,

 Christmas 1914 by Mike Harding

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