Denro has taken me to task for failing to note the birthday of Sir George Martin, who turned 87 years old yesterday. Some Beatles fans love to speculate on what would have happened without Brian Epstein, or George Martin. I’m just glad everything turned out the way it did. From 1980, when he was 54, here is the life of George Martin.
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Stan the Man
Love him as I do, or despise him as some others do, Stanley Martin Lieber turns 90 years old today.
Attention: WGBH
Hey, WGBH in Boston. Where did your live streams go? The Jazz Decades feed is still there, as is WCAI for Cape Cod, but your primary station is g-o-n-e not only from TuneIn, but also from direct URL entry. What’s up?
Follow-up: It’s back. It was gone for at least 24 hours, and before posting this I had written to both the station and to TuneIn.
Santa’s Helper
Haddon Sundblom is a name you may not know, but when we think of Santa Claus it’s Sundblom’s classic depictions of him in paintings for Coca-Cola that we’re thinking of. His last painting wasn’t of Santa, but of one of his helpers, and it wasn’t commissioned by Coca-Cola.
Elmer Fudd punches Santa
Speaking of Elmer Fudd, as I was a couple of days ago, here’s a video I first posted at the end of June, 2007, with Arthur Q. Bryan punching out Broderick Crawford.
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Merry Christmas!
Lennons without John celebrate Christmas
Christmas, 1968, with the Lennon Sisters, Glen Campbell, and Bing Crosby. Now this is special! But how the heck did John Byner get in there?
Here’s more with the lovely Lennons from 1968. Months later, the Lennon Sisters’ father, William, would tragically become the first Lennon to be murdered by a deranged fan.
And the Lennons sing, “How’d you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?” Isn’t that what President Obama is doing?
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2012/12/ChristmasIsland.mp3|titles=The Lennon Sisters: Christmas Island]P.S. Here’s Byner doing his Bing impression.