REPOST: Still More of Those Damned Good, Few, Borrowed Xmas Images

Continuing with the Xmas re-posts from the last coupla years...
http://ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2009/12/still-more-of-those-damned-good-few.html

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-1954-trees.html

Wrap It Up: 1954 Trees - This is probably my favorite vintage paper. It is marked 1954 and features abstract trees and starbursts in pink, green, black, and gold. Collectors of mid-century modern will appreciate the simple, graphic quality of this artsy, period graphic.



From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace

Be His Christmas Star - 1963 Frederick’s of Hollywood Catalog (via What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?)



From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/297333189/mary-pickford-knows-the-way





From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/20/hurrah-for-santy-claus/

“Hurrah for Santy Claus” - “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” Kapp Records Mexico From the 1964 Film. With music by Milton DeLugg.



From: http://fuckyeahrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/297347021/special-limited-edition-joe-strummers-last-hand

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION: Joe Strummer’s last hand painted Christmas Card. By buying this card you also support Strummerville. Strummerville is a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians. Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them. At:http://www.strummerville.com/



From: http://anonymousworks.blogspot.com/2009/12/19th-century-cdv-of-man-and-christmas.html

19th Century CDV of Man and Christmas Tree - Sold by Greg French Early Photography.



From: http://sensacionaldeluchas.blogspot.com/2009/12/feliz-navidad.html

¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz Januká! Mini poster de las revistas de: La leyenda de Blue Demon, que fueron publicado por EJEA.



From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/3087596423/in/set-72157594440611377/

Vintage Christmas Postcard - Santa



From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/23/cupid-prancer-eartha-lap-dancer/

Cupid, Prancer, Eartha, Lap Dancer - Eartha Kitt “Santa Baby” with Henri Rene and his Orchestra b/w “And Under the Bridges of Paris” RCA Victor Records (1953)



From: http://blognoreturn.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-is-coming-1951.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7YQ6zyawA

Christmas is Coming (1951) - Long before the introduction of postcodes helped get our Christmas cards delivered on time, the GPO Film Unit commissioned animator Lotte Reiniger to produce several short promotional films using her silhouette technique, aimed at giving the public a gentle nudge. 'Christmas is Coming' sees a grumpy Santa threatening strike action; the day is saved thanks to St. Peter's calm assurances that this year us Brits will "post early for Christmas". (Simon McCallum)



From: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/266227688/thanks-samantha





From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/19/oh-my-god-hes-taking-the-kids/

Oh my God!! He’s taking the kids! - “Santa’s Surprise” Parts 1 AND 2! With Vocals! and FULL Orchestra! A Record Guild Kiddie Record (Parents Commended – so you know that its safe and you can be sure that Santa won’t surprise the kid’s TOO much.)



From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-modern-trees.html

Wrap It Up: Modern Trees - This 50's tissue-type wrapping paper features very modern trees and starbursts.



From: http://www.lancelathrop.com/cards.html

The Manger Scene-® Lance Lathrop
The Elephant Bible-® Lance Lathrop
Ramones Christmas-® Lance Lathrop



From: http://fuckyeahrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/297076217/the-ramones-merry-christmas-i-dont-want-to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2tzbVHYCY

The Ramones - Merry Christmas ( I don’t want to fight tonight )


From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/271144028/awoade-via-scandyfactory





From: http://pacocamino.blogspot.com/2009/12/vintage-ad-columbia-records-and-tapes.html

Vintage Ad: Columbia Records and Tapes, 1970



From: http://dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com/2009/12/santa-puppet-made-from-glove-box.html

Santa Puppet Made from Glove Box Cardboard
Indian Apple Glove Company Santa, Size 8. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman



From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-scary-deer.html

Wrap It Up: Scary Deer - This late 60's (or so) wrapping paper is a favorite simply because the elongated deer are quite scary with their zombie-eyes.



From: http://newtextureblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/xmas-balls_23.html





From: http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_23.html





From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/296655829/george-petty-1930s

George Petty, 1930’s.



From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/12/23/the-cats-pajamas/




Little Miss Jeri Kelly – 1o Year Old Songstress from Picayune, Miss. “Poor Ol’ Santa Claus” b/w “Hide and Seek”MPI (Music Plus Inspiration) Records



From: http://phrockblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-christmas-to-all-visitors-and.html





From: http://fringepop.blogspot.com/2009/12/just-in-time-for-holidays.html

Just in Time for the Holidays......it's "Holiday Hookers"!



From: http://www.donnalethal.com/2009/12/damned-santa-claus.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqCx8F1dUU

Damned Santa Claus A Ride On Santa's Rocket



From:http://media.photobucket.com/image/rockabilly%20christmas/imdonewiththisshit/xmasfeversmallap1.jpg

REPOST: Let's Get Some of These Borrowed Christmas Images & Tunes Outta the Way

http://ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2009/12/lets-get-some-of-these-borrowed.html

Now I'm not particularly in the Christmas mood yet this year, when it seems like there is Christmas uber-overload at every turn.  But recently, I finally got around to looking at those stat charts Big Brother Blogspot puts together for the serious, driven, self-aware bloggers.  Guess what?  The series of Borrowed Christmas Images are continually dominating my stats & graphs.  So here is the first of a series of re-blogs of last years Christmas re-blogs...

Let's Get Some of These Borrowed Christmas Images & Tunes Outta the Way
originally posted on: Saturday, December 19, 2009

From: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/273312319/thanks-christopher


From: http://musicartstyle.blogspot.com/2009/12/does-santa-freak-you-out.html
Does Santa freak you out? Do Clowns and Mimes freak you out? Well check out some of these Santa's. Some of these are just wrong! Check out this great little site dedicated to scary pics of Santa - tis the season!
sketchy santas: http://www.sketchysantas.com/


From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-jingle-bells.html
This vintage wrapping paper has stylized bells in fashionable, period colors.

Another little Christmas treat for ya'll."Jeri Kelly - Poor Old Santa Claus"

"Ray Bolger - L'il Elfy"
 

Click here to open your present: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4417OC39

From: http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post/281070115/freaky-victorian-santa-detail-via-stevechasmar
Freaky Victorian Santa (detail) (via stevechasmarhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum )

From: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/12/santa-school-images-from-the-life-magazine-photo-archive.html
Santa School Images from the Life Magazine Photo Archive
The Life Magazine Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life is a great time waster. Typing in random nouns or verbs and seeing what nineteen fifties artsy fartsy gems appear is grand fun. Check out the archive's large gallery of photos from a Santa School. Pick a noun, Christmas or otherwise, and kiss several hours away

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-groovy-style.html
Here is another piece of vintage wrapping paper for your visual pleasure and inspiration!

From: http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2009/12/it-wouldnt-be-christmas-without-creepy.html

Santa In Animal Land (1948) Christmas Puppet Show. Slightly frightening puppet animals are upset that Santa Claus only brings gifts to kids, so Kitty Kat hunts down the official Santa Claus for animals. "You can thank me for your holiday nightmares later."

From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/281392580/slim-aarons-bacall-and-bogart-1951
Slim Aarons Bacall and Bogart 1951

From: http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-big-enchilada-podcast-2009
NEW BIG ENCHILADA PODCAST: 2009 Xmas Special


The elves have finished putting it together and now the Be-bop Santa Claus has delivered the second annual Steve Terrell Podcast Christmas Special right into your electronic stocking. There's a little Christmas cheese and a little Christmas sleaze with Yuletide goodies from The Rockin' Guys, Wildman Fischer, Andre Williams, Pee Wee King, The Fall, Nervous Norvous, Be-Bop Santa Claus, The Turtles, The Drive-by Truckers, The Handsome Family and more.
CLICK HERE: http://a38.video2.blip.tv/6050002859157/Robotclaw-Podcast17TheBigEnchilada2009ChristmasSpecial638.mp3?bri=8.3&brs=175 to download the podcast. (To save it, right click on the link and select "Save Target As.")
Or better yet, stop messing around and CLICK HERE:http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blip/NpPp to subscribe to my podcasts.
The official Big Enchilada Web Site with my podcast jukebox and all the shows is HERE: http://www.bigenchiladapodcast.com/
Here's the play list:
(Background Music: We Wish You'd Bury the Missus by The Cryptkeeper)
The Last Month of the Year by The Tarbox Ramblers
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by The Legendary Shack Shakers
I Want to be King of Orient Ah by Elastica
There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Midnight Stage by Captain Beefheart
Be-Bop Santa Claus by The Be-Bop Santa Claus
Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus by Pee Wee King
Sleigh Bells, Reindeer and Snow by Rita Faye Wilson
(Background Music: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by BeauSoleil )
A Christmas Carol by Tom Leher
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by The Fall
I'm a Christmas Tree by Wild Man Fischer
Rudibaker's Christmas Wish by Andre Williams
Monsters Holiday by Bobby "Boris" Pickett
(Background Music: Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer by Los Straitjackets)
Something Funny in Santa's Lap by The Moaners
Santa and The Sidewalk Surfer by The Turtles
I'm Waiting for Santa Claus by Nervous Norvous
Mrs. Claus' Kimono by Drive-By Truckers
A Johnny Ace Christmas by Squirrel Nut Zippers
Jinglecide by The Rockin' Guys
So Much Wine by The Handsome Family
(Background Jingle Bells by Twitty Bird & Friends)

From: http://bebelestrange.tumblr.com/post/281363462
1963 Disneyland Christmas Star (via Miehana http://www.flickr.com/photos/miehana )

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-60s-presents.html

This is a very cool store wrap on a giant roll. Judging from the graphics, the tomato-red/chartreuse, and the older roll it is on, I think it is early to mid 60's.

From: http://patchworkgarden.blogspot.com/2009/12/deck-halls.html



From: http://ratb0y69.blogspot.com/2009/12/fleshtones-stocking-stuffer.html
The Fleshtones - Stocking Stuffer @ 320 kbps - Covers are included
1. Hurray for Santa Claus 2. Six White Boomers 3. Super Rock Santa 4. You're All I Want for Christmas 5. Champagne of Christmas 6. Canadian Christmas 7. Mr. Santa Claus 8. Christmas With Bazooka Joe 9. Run, Rudolph, Run! 10. I Still Believe in Christmas 11. In Midnight's Silence
From the garage rock gods who brought the world ''Super Rock,'' Stocking Stuffer is the Christmas album for music fans who hate run-of-the mill Christmas music. The Fleshtones just want to rock and they re not about to let peace on earth or good will toward men get in the way. ''Hooray for Santa Claus'' opens the disc with a speaker busting ode to the guy
in the big red suit and ''Champagne of Christmas'' looks back to The Fleshtones classic R&B roots while extolling the virtues of more than a little yuletide bubbly. Stocking Stuffer is festive enough to get you in the holiday mood but rocks hard enough to keep the eggnog flowing through mistletoe make-out sessions and drunken sing-a-longs. If Santa is
cool enough to leave this little gem in your stocking, this year you ll actually look forward to Christmas music!
(Click on above link to original ratboy 69 blogposting for possible download link)

From: http://peteoswald.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-holidaze.html
Pete Oswald: Happy Holidaze

From: http://www.donnalethal.com/2009/12/most-of-christmas-present.html
The Most of Christmas Present - Why do I love this cover so? Is it the man in the chair? The dog?

From: http://thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com/2009/12/wrap-it-up-abstract-drummers.html
I like this strange, vintage paper very much. The graphics are bit unsettling and the colors quite quirky...

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/288892497/joan-crawford-is-coming-down-your-chimney-and
Joan Crawford is coming down your chimney…and she’s got a gun. Merry Xmas! (Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull.)

From: http://cargohoo.tumblr.com/post/289965297/julie-london-id-like-you-for-christmas
Julie London - I’d Like You For Christmas (click link above to listen)

From: http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/289927323

"The Christmas Song": Origins, Alex Chilton & Chipmunks...

Here's a re-post from a poster called FuzzGuitar02 on the  Alex Chilton - The man and his music ... Yahoo group:


"I'm sure most have heard it, but it seems like a good time, and I have some interesting information on it. 

The Alex version:


Story of it's origin: 
"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") was written in 1944 by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to “stay cool by thinking cool,” the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. 
“I saw a spiral pad on his piano with four lines written in pencil,” Tormé recalled. “They started, ‘Chestnuts roasting ... , Jack Frost nipping ... , Yuletide carols …, Folks dressed up like Eskimos.’ Bob (Wells, co-writer) didn’t think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics.” 
The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Cole’s behest — and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records — a second recording was made the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. 

Here's a spoof, "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire" was made by Bob Rivers: "

Kat's Karavan entry from the Handbook for TX Music

From William Williams (the man with the great name) at my old hometown's Big D 60's Music Yahoo Group:


"Gene F. is doing some work on the upcoming revised edition of the Handbook of Texas Music, and I noticed this article on Kat's Karavan. Staying up late with a transistor radio under the covers listening to all this really wild music that you couldn't hear anywhere else - those were formative music experiences for me."


KAT'S KARAVAN. 


Kat's Karavan was a rhythm-and-blues radio program broadcast from Dallas from 1953 to 1967 on WRR-AM. The program aired R&B music to a primarily white teenage audience with burgeoning interests in music previously off-limits to them because of contemporary race relations.
 
In the 1950s white-owned radio stations across the country were just beginning to dabble in playing music made by African Americans. Unsure of the commercial prospects of such a venture, many radio stations were reluctant to cross racial lines in their programming. Kat's Karavan defiantly played early R&B music performed by blacks, even though the show was hosted by and aimed at whites. The show was particularly influential because of its formatting, its personalities, the large region it broadcast to, and the number of famous musicians who came of age while listening to it. 

Kat's Karavan showed strong support for local music acts such as the Nightcaps, who recorded their only album (Wine, Wine, Wine) at the WRR studio in 1959; the single of the same name was used as a promotional vehicle for the show. This album, which also included the song "Thunderbird, " influenced upcoming local artists including Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and members of ZZ Top. 

While promoting local music, Kat's Karavan also exposed its listeners to musicians from outside Texas, including such legendary blues figures as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. Thus the show intended to expand the horizons of its listeners and inform them of the musical styles being created by black musicians. 

The show's disc jockeys also contributed to its success. Kat's Karavan was co-hosted by Jim Lowe, Jr., and Bill Carroll, who provided comedy for the listeners and encyclopedic knowledge of the music and the musicians. Lowe became such a well-loved figure in the Dallas area that, for forty years, he was the voice of the mechanical cowboy, Big Tex, at the State Fair of Texas. Another notable co-host of Kat's Karavan was Englishman John Peel. His work on the show in 1961 marked his early broadcast career before he returned to England to host the BBC radio program Top Gear. (In 2009 a CD set chronicling Peel's broadcasts later in his career was named KatsKaravan.)

Kat's Karavan was also successful because of its unique format. Lowe and Carroll divided the show into two parts. The first began at 10:30 each weeknight and centered on R&B vocal groups, while the second began at 11:15 and focused on both electric and acoustic blues. All these blues styles influenced the development of R&B. The show informed listeners of contemporary R&B developments and their historical backgrounds. Two rare segments of a 1961 broadcast of Kat's Karavan have been discovered and donated to WRR by a private collector. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Observer, November 11, 2004. Robert Wilonsky, "Peeling Back John Peel's Dallas Daze," Dallas Observer, May 16, 2007 (http://blogs. dallasobserver. com/unfairpark/ 2007/05/peeling_ back_john_ peels_dallas. php ), accessed October 23, 2011. Kevin Walters, "Historical 1961 WRR Broadcasts Found" (http://ryono. net/xtra/ oldies/1957/ jimlowe.htm), accessed October 23, 2011. 
Cathy Brigham