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.
Christmas time is here again!
For Christmas of that phantasmagorical, psychedelic year of 1967, the Beatles produced Magical Mystery Tour for BBC TV, and the equally zany Christmas Time is Here Again, my favorite of the records they made for their fan club.
Listening to this, you shouldn’t be surprised that the boys also recorded You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) in 1967, but it wasn’t released until 1970, as the flip-side of the Let It Be single.