YouTube Thanksgiving & Christmas Shows update for 9.23.11 (Hillbillies, AMC, Sabrina, Lucy)

YuleTube: Christmas Toyshop

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The Stingiest Men in Town

The Stingiest Man in Town (1956)

Fans of vintage holiday fare will appreciate Stagedoor's budget price release of the Original Television Soundtrack of this 1956 adaptaion of Charles Dickens classic morality tale A Christmas Carol. Originally shown as an episode of The Alcoa Hour this pre-Scrooge musical version of Dicken's novel stars crooner Vic Damone as young Scrooge and Basil Rathbone as the older, haunted Scooge. Rathbone gives one of the finest performances of his later career. Rathbone, and The Four Lads as a sort of Greek chorus of carolers, are my musical highlights of the show, though everyone involved is quite good.

While a bit old fashioned compared to more recent musical adaptations Stingiest Man still succeeds thanks to the supurb performances of it's veteren cast and a strong set of tunes that include a number of should-be classics.

Amazon | Napster | MOG

The Stingiest Man in Town w/ Narration

Amazon also has a MP3 download of what I'm assuming was a later attempt to adapt the songs from the show into a spoken word recording. There's a narration, by what sounds like a much older Rathbone, linking the songs and while I imagine it's not as good as watching the original or even a straight recording it does help bring the story together a bit better than the song only soundtrack. There are two parts, each about a half hour in leangth - probably each side of the original LP - and it'll set you back, as of this writing, $1.78.

The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

More than 20 years after The Alcoa Hour Stingiest Man was broadcast Rankin-Bass preiered an animated version of the musical starring the vocal talents of Walter Matthau, Tom Bosley, Robert Morse Dennis Day, Paul Frees and Theodore Bikel - an awesome assemblage indeed. The animated version is available as part of the Classic Christmas Favorites DVD along with nine other (mostly) classic holiday specials.

Christmas Eve Already!

"He Has Come: Christmas Music from the Jesus Movement" @ bongobells

"The Jesus Movement (late 1960s and early 1970s) was a time
when many bare-footed hippies where coming to Christ.
These young Christians were called "Jesus People"
and they began creating a new form of worship and evangelical music.
Here they sing about Christmas and the Birth of their King."

Snowball OST @ Eric Hester

"Christmas Is" with Benji and Waldo. @ Twelve Months of Christmas

Happy Holidays From Salad Days Music

AZLTRON Holiday Mix

Umphrey's McGee: free Christmas EP

happy chrismas to ya list'nas @ snuhthing/anything

Have Yourself A Magical Little Christmas @ She'll Grow Back

It All Started With Carbon Monoxide's Obligatory Christmas Mix #4

Sebastian's Zither - Christmas Dreams @ A Christmas Yuleblog

The Venture Brothers:"Henchmen 21 & 24 - Wonderful Christmastime" @ Quickstop Entertainment

New .99 cent Rifftrax Christmas Short "Santa's Toyshop"

Me and You and a Blog Named Boo offers up some Christmas Music Videos

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Dell Giant #53 - Donald Duck and DC Universe Christmas

Groovy Christmas' Past: Captain Marvel gets "A Taste of Madness!"@ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Herman Munster Meets Santa Claus @ Frankensteinia

The Franklin Mint Blog remembers A Charlie Brown Christmas

Hulu Christmas Collection:

• The Office: Moroccan Christmas
• Monk: Mr. Monk and the Miracle
• American Dad!: Best Christmas Story Never Told
• 30 Rock: Christmas Special
• Psych: Christmas Joy
• ALF: ALF's Special Christmas
• Married...With Children: Christmas
• The A-Team: Holiday in the Hills
• The O.C.: The Best Chrismukkah Ever
  

The Lightning Bug's Lair on the original Black Christmas (1974)

Star Wars Holiday Special: The Good Parts Version & Stephen Leacock's "Merry Christmas" @ Fantasy Magazine

Christmas Music, Sci-Fi and more

Elf (by Oliver Woods photography)

Visit Ernie (Not Bert) for fine festive fare from Fontanna, His Orchestra And Chorus's Christmas At Home and Dartmouth Glee Club's White Christmas On The Campus

A Christmas Yuleblog shares Anita Bryant's The Miracle Of Christmas

Cheerful Earful has The Stanford University Choir's Christmas At Stanford

Arbor records Christmas Collection Vol 1- 8 @ Arbor Records via JonSolomon

Pete Fountain's Silver Bells and Medley by Living Voices @ FaLaLaLaLa

Jill Sobule's 2008 free holiday tunes

Have Yourself A Bluesy Little Christmas @ She'll Gow Back

Erran Baron Cohen: "Dreidel" & Kid Mud: "Christmas Day" @ Largehearted Boy

Jingle Bells - Mike Ink (alias Wolfgang Voigt) & Wonderful Christmas Time (Paul McCartney cover) - Ane Brun, Lindstrøm & Thom Hell @ Batteria Ricaricabile.

Patton Oswalt "My Christmas Memory" @ Surviving the Golden Age

io9 Presents A Very Special Scifi Holiday Collection
featuring video clippage from MST3K, X-Files, Doctor Who, Supernatural and more

The Franklin Mint Blog remembers 3 alternate versions of A Christmas Carol

Flying Elf Game @ RMG Connect

Masters Of Song Fu Holiday Special: The Songs!

"Like a songwriting version of Iron Chef, these challengers will be presented with a very specific songwriting challenge. They'll be given one week to complete their songs ...(the) challenge is to create a brand new character for this holiday season, and write a holiday song for him/her/it. Think Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty The Snowman, etc. "

candidates include

• "Dexter, The Credit Debt Badger"
• "Becky, The Office Party Drunk"
• "Twangles, The Christmas Squid"
• "Puffington Proper Paw

Out On Blue Six Is This Christmas Music?:

• Part Eight - Mike Oldfield 'In Dulci Jubilo'
• Part Nine - Greg Lake 'I Believe In Father Christmas'

Christmas Link Roundup Part 8 @ Super Punch

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture @ Hulu

Evening Update - Christmas Music and Classic TV

A Christmas Greeting (L.A. Unit of Recording For The Blind) @ A Christmas Yuleblog

"I've had this album in my collection since 2000 - when I bought it off eBay, I thought I was getting an album of Christmas greetings - hence the title.

Instead, I got an album from the Los Angeles Unit of Recording For The Blind with celebs like Danny Kaye, Agnes Moorehead, and Yul Brynner reading Christmas stories for those visually impaired..."

MY(P)WHAE has more rare and wonderful holiday sides to tempt the ear and warm the heart

Christmas, 1952 (MP3s) @ Beware of the Blog

A Familyre Christmas-Vol. 2

More spirited songs for the season@ Bring Me Up: The Sound

Christmas Television Vegetation Part One @ Beware of the Blog and Classic Television Showbiz

featuring:

Dragnet Christmas (1952)
Dennis the Menace Christmas (1960)
The Andy Griffith Show Christmas (1960)
Hazel Christmas (1961)
Mr. Ed Christmas (1963)
Petticoat Junction Christmas (1963)
The Doris Day Show Christmas (1970)
The Great Santa Switch starring The Muppets (1970)
Happy Days Christmas (1974)

Monday Morning Update

Check out the the 2008 Yuleblog checklist to see what holiday sharity you may have missed!

Barefoot Santa @ Big Rock Candy Mountain

Do You Hear What I Hear? (over and over again) @ bongobells plus 20 more Little Drummer Boys

A Saint Louis Christmas @ Cheerful Earful plus Bob Kames - Organ And Chimes

Christmas Forever shares A Jack Jones Christmas

Ernie (Not Bert) offers:
Favorite Songs Of Christmas (Zondervan)
Bert Jones-Christmas Messages In Music,
Merry Christmas From Bob Kames And The New Hammond Organ X-66,
Bob Kames-Organ And Chimes-15 Songs Of Christmas
Bob Kames-Organ And Chimes #2-It's Christmas Time
Bob Kames-Organ And Chimes #3-Happy Holidays

Christmas in The World of Wonder: Boldly Going Where No Wishbook Has Gone Before plus Christmas With McHales's Navy

Garfield Christmas Special! @ Geek Orthodox

The Flintstones Christmas Episode @ Me and You and a Blog Named Boo

Watch Christmas TV shows online @ For Better or Werts

Christmas Music, Pacman, Eggnog, Cookies and more

Free Download = Holiday Charity! AmieStreet.com will donate $1 to the Food Bank For New York City, and The Robin Hood Foundation will triple their donation, whenever someones downloads Peter Buffet's "Star of Wonder", featuring the vocal stylings of Kim Robertson.

Archie Wood & His Friends' Christmas Album @ A Christmas Yuleblog plus We Three Bings: Vital Music's N.Y. Trash Xmas Comp

Navidad 08 @ Planeta Pop

Merry Mixmas 2008 @ DJRiko

George Chiainia, Organ, With Chimes By Chimeatron-Music Of The Holiday Season-Organ And Chimes @ Ernie (Not Bert)

Is This Christmas Music? Part Five - Jason Donovan 'When You Come Back To Me' @ Out on Blue Six

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Reggae Santa Claus! @ Distinctly Jamaican Sounds

Pandora Holiday Radio

Christmas Comes to Pacland @ Me and You and a Blog Named Boo

More Christmas 1975 @ Pop-Cult Blog

How to Make Eggnog!@ Dabbled

Christmas Cookie Recipes @ 101 Cookbooks

Christmas Cookies with Legs @ Cooking Monster

Candi's Christmas Carnival @ Be Jolly, By Golly

Morning Linktopia

The 2008 Romantic Air Recording Company Holiday Sampler album

Christmas in The World of Wonder: Christmas Mix #2

Ernie (Not Bert) shares The Holiday Bells-Ring The Bells On Christmas Day & Robert John Carwithen-The Bells On Christmas Morn

bongobells' Jazz! Christmas

White Christmas - The Love Language

Twelve Months of Christmas Podcast #3: The My Space Episode

The Five Best '80s Christmas Songs @ Rocks Off

Six different (Swedish) versions of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer @ Jul igen

A Claymation Christmas Celebration remembered @ Kindertrauma

The Yulies: Celebrating the Christmas TV-movie genre @ EW

Out on Blue six presents "Is This Christmas?

• The Introduction…
• Saint Etienne & Tim Burgess : I Was Born On Christmas Day
• Aztec Camera :Walk Out To Winter
• The Waitresses : Christmas Wrapping

Here Come Sandy Claws & Never Mind The Baubles @ Planet Mondo

Two Weeks 'til Chrismas? Oh My Damn! @ Pretty Much Amazing

Christmas Music For People That Hate Christmas Music @ Kata Rokkar

The Gang - All I Want For Christmas Is You @ The Music Slut

More Walt Kelly Christmas Cuteness @ Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine

Sammy Davis Jr. Christmas Ads @ The Dino Lounge plus Have Yourself a Sammy, Jr. Xmas & Dean Martin Christmas Special in 1977 @ Celluloid Slammer

Disney Christmas Cartoons @ Me and You and a Blog Named Boo

The Jack Smith-Margaret Whiting Show - Christmas Seals 1951 & Salvation Army at Christmas 1949 @ rands esoteric otr

The Christmas Tree Crib Sheet: How To Pick, Set up, and Care For Your Tree @ The Art of Manliness

Use your Management Skills to Build a Stress-Free Christmas @ Dumb Little Man plus How To Avoid That Dreaded Holiday Weight Gain

8 Truly Strange Christmas Customs @ Mental Floss

The not so cheerful… 12 Scams of Christmas @ McAffee

Holidays inspiration links and reminders @ Dabbled

Christmas Music, TV, Crafts and more

Over at A Christmas Yuleblog Captain OT shares Mary Mayo - The Magic of Christmas and guest reviewer Scott Marks takes a look at George C. Scott's turn as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"

A Franklin Mint Country Christmas Compilation

Santa In His Cups @ Big Rock Candy Mountain

20 versions of Carol of the Bells @ bongobells

Two holiday songs from Bullette @ Christmas a Go Go

Holly Boy by Betty Cox @ FaLaLaLaLa

A '55 Telecaster Under My Tree: Carlene Carter & John Jorgesen @ Christmas Music Everyday

Ohmpark Mixtape #5: Holiday Chillout Mix

Christmas in The World of Wonder: Who Wants A Beatle for Christmas?

MY(P)WHAE shares Christmas Songs and Stories (Childcraft/Wing CLP-1213)

Holiday Hash pt. 5 @ Guilt Free Pleasures

Can't Stop the Revelry @ pogo a go-go

Navida' @ Synthetic Rocks

Ernie (Not Bert) reshares Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Quickstop's TV Or Not TV: The Holiday Special (12/8 - 12/14)

Geek Orthodox's YouTube Old-School Christmas Cartoon Extravaganza!

More Super Punch Christmas links

Dabbled has collected a bunch of wonderful ornament tutorials from Flickr

Christmas Music, TV, Cookies and more

A Christmas Yuleblog shares Harry Secombe's White Christmas

AM, Then FM shares some naughty Kay Martin

Santa's Got A Potty Mouth @ Big Rock Candy Mountain

A Franklin Mint Blog Kiddie Christmas Compilation

When Christmas Comes To Our House by Dottie Evans With The Brigadiers Quartet & The Christmas Song by The Mike Sammes Singers @ FaLaLaLaLa

Letters Have No Arms!: Christmas Post #114: The Things That Really Matter

The You Ain't No Picasso Christmas 2008 Mix

The One and Only Christmas Mix @ Sixeyes

Ernie (Not Bert) offers Muzak-Stimulus Progression Number Three-Christmas & George Greeley With The Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Ted Dale-The Twenty-Two Best Loved Christmas Piano Concertos

Wonderful Wonderblog re-gifts last years shares (but maybe they're new to you!)

Nostalgic G offers a Yule Log with a Twist

Christmas in The World of Wonder: Christmas Don't Be Late

Twas the Night Before Christmas (Rankin Bass) @ Geek Orthodox

A YouTube Christmas Bizarre @ Holidash

Kindertrauma remembers The Year Without a Santa Claus

Super Punch Links # 5

Nifty 3D Christmas Tree Cookies, great to eat or give!@ Instrucatables plus check out the Holiday Treats Contest

Monday Morning Mistletoe

A Line Material Christmas, 2008! @ MY(P)WHAE

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (Year Unknown)
SANTA'S NORTH POLE BAND (1957)
THE KINDS OF CHRISTMAS (1958)
THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS (1959)
SANTA'S FACTOREE (1960)
THE DAY THAT SANTA WAS SICK (1961)
LET'S TRIM THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1962)
THE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS (1964)

A Christmas Yuleblog shares 1973's Christmas Greetings (U.S. Navy) w/ Danny Thomas

bongobells presents Sandy Duncan's The Santa Clause Album

storynory brings us Christmas in Iceland

Ernie (Not Bert) reshares Frankie Yankovic's Christmas Party plus check out the massive list of links he's shared in just the last week!

MPR's New Classical Tracks Podcast features Yo-Yo Ma - Songs of Joy and Peace

Loads of Christmas (and other) oddities at Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory

25 Songs: An Accordion Advent Calendar @ Let's Polka

Quickstop Entertainment presents A Brian Blessed Christmas song starring not Brian Blessed.

For a real Brian Blessed Christmas try this joyous, and occasionally poignant, celebration of Christmas broadcast from the Blessed's home in Surrey!

A Blessed Christmas (radio) (1988, 2 Hours. 52mb)

Rollo & Grady's Indie Christmas Mix

Rock Sellout offers a pair of Christmas tunes from Thee Fine Lines

Cool-Mo-Dee shares 1950's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer comic

Check out Super Punch's Christmas Link Roundup

Free Christmas Printable Stickers @ Paper Modelz

How to Make a Snowstorm @ CraftStylish

Cat Scrap's Advent Calendar gifts us a wonderfully freebie everyday until Christmas - links are only good for that one day though so don't forget to check back everyday!

It's a Digital Scrapbookin' Christmas Convoy!

Discuss: The Worst Holiday Movies @ Cinematical

Top 10 Worst Toys @ Holidash

Presents of Christmas Past! (Dagobah Edition) @ Geek Orthodox

Classic Cartoons @ Internet Archive

• Hardrock, Coco & Joe
• Suzy Snowflake
• Frosty the Snowman (1954)

Christmas Quickie

Baby, It's Cold Outside is a blog on a mission - a mission to list every version of blog author Brian's favorite song of snowy seduction - at last count he had more than a hundred. But Baby, It's Cold Outside isn't just a list blog - already Brian's shared a rare album of Christmas Carols by Father Sydney MacEwan from back in 1956.

The Tone King reviews the new Project 86 Christmas E.P.

I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday is Fab Four Christmas

The Christmas Special Wiki has added pages for Super Mario World's "The Night Before Cave Christmas", He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special and, Merry Nickmas , plus the beginnings of a List of Christmas television episodes - that is to say, Christmas themed episodes of various TV series.

Stocking Stuffers Nov 7

The Accidental Hedonist kicks off a new series of posts on" Traditional and Vegan Holiday Favorites" with Eat Your... Gravy

Celebrity Chef Holidays: Mario Batali @ Serious Eats

Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon star in the soon to open film Four Christmases.

Christmas @ Disneyland Paris

DVD Talk Reviews:
Jim Henson Classics: The Christmas Toy
A Grandpa For Christmas
Christmas Caper


Christmas @ Internet Archive

• (video) "Shower of Stars" A Christmas Carol (1954) Starring Basil Rathbone & Fredric March
• (video) 'The Ruggles' Christmas episode
• (audio) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Librivox)
• (audio) 6 Bing Crosby Christmas Radio Shows

Antique Book Scans:

• The St. Nicholas Christmas book .. (1899)
• The house with sixty closets; a Christmas story for young folks and old children (1899)
• A Budget of Christmas tales (1895)
• The book of Christmas; (1909)
• Jolly plays for holidays, a collection of Christmas entertainments (1914)
• The book of Christmas (1845)
• Centuries ago Songs of Bethlehem (1884)

Stocking Stuffers for Nov 3rd

Winter Fun (by natureluv)

Big Balls of Holly has a nifty share to help get us ready for winter - Christmas Snowflakes And Sweethearts by The Leroy Holmes Singers

Christmas Forever offers the relaxing holiday sounds of The Geoff Love Orchestra's Christmas With Love

Hi-Fi Holiday brings us Wishing You A Merry Christmas by Johnny Cole and His Chorus

77 Santas has lots of goodies to listen to while making out your Christmas Lists!

Twelve Months of Christmas presents Part 7 of Christmas on 45 plus the Twelve Months of Christmas Halloween special.

It's never to early to set your DVR! The Christmas Specials Wiki has started a page for the 2008 Christmas TV Season! There's not much there yet but it could prove a very useful bookmark.

The Christmas Specials Wiki has also added a page for ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas

Rick Goldschmidt has a terrific The Stingiest Man in Town scan from an old TV Guide

The Album Project reviews the indie compilation X Christmas

Jingle Cats come to DVD!?!

The Magic of Vienna Christmas Markets @ Venere Travel Blog

The Twelve Days of Christmas Panto at Ventnor Winter Gardens

Two Grand Rapids radio stations have already switched to an all Christmas format!

Top 8 Christmas Myspace Layout Sites @ Associated Content

New Christmas DVD Reviews @ DVDTalk

New Christmas DVD reviews available at DVD Talk...

• A Shari Lewis Christmas
  
• The Night Before Christmas...and More Classic Holiday Tales
  
• Shrek the Halls
  
• A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition
  
• Doris Day - Christmas Memories
  

Quick Links

Animated Toast looks at Roger Ramjet's Twas the Night Before and Christmas Comes to Pac-Land.

There's a new page at the Christmas Specials Wiki on Santa Claus impersonators (characters that have dressed up like the jolly fat man - think the Grinch, Homer and so on)

Lee, over at MY(P)WHAE, has a round-up of the first four terrifying installments of his vintage Halloween music extravaganza!

Netflix Watch Instantly (requires Netflix account)

A Fairy Tale Christmas
Kidnapped by a wicked viceroy and raised by a cruel woodsman, young Princess Angela forgets that her father is king and she nobility. Years later, when she learns that the king is despondent, she resolves to visit him and dance to lift his spirits. Now, with the help of woodland creatures, Angela sets out for the court, but the viceroy and woodsman are bent on stopping her lest she learn the truth about her true, royal identity.

Flickr:

DVD Review: Peanuts Holiday Collection: Deluxe Edition

DVD Talk has a review of "The Peanuts Holiday Collection: Deluxe Edition (It's The Great Pumpkin / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / A Charlie Brown Christmas)"

I'm torn about picking up this release myself. It sounds great with new stuff I'd love to see but I have multiple versions of all of these already. I'm facing the same dilemma on the new "A Christmas Story Collector's Editions".

Christmas DVD: Dic's Animated Christmas Blast

Dic's Animated Christmas Blast

Celebrate The Season with The Best In Animation
Includes 5 Episodes Featuring Today s Most Popular Characters

The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic Christmas Blast
Join Sonic The Hedgehog in an adventure to rescue the spirit of Christmas from the clutches of Robotniklaus and bring joy back to the world!
What-A-Mess: Santa What-A-Mess
What-a-Mess first Christmas finds him questioning the truth about Santa and the holiday.
A Hollywood Hounds Christmas
A country guitar-playing dog learns cultural tolerance and understanding when he teams up with a sax-playing canine and a timbale-playing cat to form the multi-ethnic pet singing group: THE HOLLYWOOD HOUNDS.
Bump In The Night: Twas The Night Before Bumpy
It s the night before Christmas, and Mr. Bumpy is determined to get all the presents in the world! Bumpy and his best pal Squishy embark on a zigzag world tour in their attempt to reach Santa s citadel.
Jingle Bell Rock
This family Christmas special, starring comedy legend Milton Berle, introduces us to a troubled Santa who will soon be facing bankruptcy unless he can find some quick cash!
(amazon.com)

A Charlie Brown Christmas Deluxe Edition

TVshows onDVD has the complete scoop, or at least press release, for the upcoming Peanuts Holiday Collection releases. Here's the bit about the Deluxe Edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas...

A Charlie Brown Christmas Deluxe Edition features the re-mastered Christmas special in an updated look that still maintains the integrity and feel of vintage Peanuts. The Emmy and Peabody Award winning classic features Charlie Brown who has the Yuletide blues. To get into the holiday spirit, Lucy advises Charlie Brown to direct the Christmas play and put up a great tree. Charlie Brown takes the advice, but the tree he finds is short, spindly and not very green, prompting everyone to make fun of him. However, the real meaning of Christmas works its magic on the Peanuts gang and they all end up in the holiday spirit. The Deluxe Edition contains bonus features including:

• A new featurette: A Christmas Miracle: The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas - An in-depth look at how the producers brought a newspaper comic strip to animated life in a new medium. Under tense pressure and with many doubters, the show creators were able to create Peanuts in a new medium and make the show a smash success.
• Digital downloads of 2 songs from the popular soundtrack
• A bonus episode: It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

A Charlie Brown Christmas Deluxe Edition will be available as a stand alone DVD as well as being part of the Peanuts Holiday Collection which also includes deluxe editions of It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.