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Wichita Public Library / Catalog / First Chapter or Excerpt  If there's no singers and there's no good songs, which came first? .... Another from the same year: the timeless Moonlight Becomes You, by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van ... When a song was played and bought a lotwhen it became a hit, ... Berlin's White Christmas mechanical royalties were almost all due to Bing...
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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Wikipedia  "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a Christmas song with music and lyrics by British songwriter Tommie Connor. Contents. [hide]. 1 Original Version- Jimmy Boyd; 2 Spike Jones version; 3 Rugrats Version ... A less successful version of the song was released in 1952 by Spike Jones (with vocal ... Retrieved 2011-12-25.
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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus sung by Jimmy Boyd - YouTube  May 27, 2009 - 2 min - Uploaded by Leroux LouisianaI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus ~ Sung by Jimmy Boyd ~ Daddy is ... This  song was ...
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Broken Claw's Christmas Carols - BrokenClaw.net  Lyrics to nearly 100 favorite Christmas carols and seasonal songs in basic text ... The song has been recorded by dozens of artists, but the Presley rendition is still the .... A novelty song composed in England in 1952 and recorded by Jimmy Boyd in the US. The 12-year-old Boyd was already a child star in California, having...
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Jimmy Boyd - Wikipedia  Boyd recorded the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" for Columbia Records in 1952, when he was 13 years old. It became a hit, selling over two and a...
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Best of Burl Ives: 20th Century Masters/The Christmas Collection ...  Features  Interviews  Lists  Streams  Videos  All ... Ives came to be closely associated with Christmas when he served as narrator for the animated TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964 and scored a hit with the then-newly written "A Holly Jolly Christmas." But his earlier ... Silver and Gold  Johnny Marks.
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Joy (or pain) to the world - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Dec 18, 2006 ... We asked, you responded, and here's the slate of contenders for Best, Worst and Rockingest Christmas Songs. ... JC Penney commercial featuring the mix of Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters and Fatboy Slim. ... "Makes me want to kill people. ... "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (usually Bruce Springsteen).
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Nine Hit Songs That Endorse Statutory Rape | Cassava Films  To be fair, the UK's age of consent is 16, making this song's 17-year-old subject ... Rick James was legendary for his oversexed lyrics and debauched lifestyle. ... "Sweet Little Sixteen", Chuck Berry, 1958. ... while technically chaste, is still pretty lecherous, especially when you picture the ... "You're Sixteen", Ringo Starr, 1974.
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About - The Official Website of Ella Fitzgerald  In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. ... She asked the band to play Hoagy Carmichael's "Judy," a song she knew well because ... It was there that Ella first met drummer and bandleader Chick Webb. ... age of 21, Ella recorded a playful version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket.
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The Troggs on Apple Music  Paced by Reg Presley's lusting vocals, the group -- which composed most of their own ... In the hands of the Troggs, "Wild Thing" -- with its grungy chords and ... three-chord monster, famous not only in its original hit Troggs version, but in its ... "Love Is All Around," which restored them to the American Top Ten in 1968, was...
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Remembering Meredith Willson  Fikkle Fame  Jun 17, 2014 ... 1993  Christmas Songs ($500): In 1951 this Music Man wrote It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas; 1993  Broadway Musicals...
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Jimmy Dean - Singer - Biography.com  Jul 11, 2016 ... Jimmy Dean was a Grammy Award-winning country musician, actor, television ... In 1961, he released the single "Big Bad John," a song about a brave ... The single hit No. 1 on both the country and pop charts, earned Dean a Grammy ... released his autobiography, 30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham.
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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Perry Como Songfacts  It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Perry Como song meaning, lyric interpretation, ... Album: Ultimate ChristmasReleased: 1951Charted: ... This was written by Meredith Willson, who wrote the Broadway play The Music Man, which...
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It's 1984 And An Unlikely Artist Is Sitting Atop The Country Music Chart  Dec 11, 2015 ... It's early 1984 and a new Willie Nelson duet is climbing the charts. ... Julio Iglesias 1100 Bel Air Place Album ... But he was, by this time, one of the biggest music star's in the world. ... Boys and almost certainly if not for Willie, 'To All The Girls I've Loved before' wouldn't have become a country music classic.
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Nat's Trivia: No.1 Songs  Nov 17, 2009 ... No.1 Songs. "The Twist" & this seasonal favorite from 1942 are the only 2 records to re-enter the charts & return to No. 1. White Christmas
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Big Red Commercial - YouTube  Sep 26, 2006 - 37 sec - Uploaded by commercials818Gum commercial from the late 80s. Features that kid from "Christmas Story".
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Number One Song of the Year: 1946-2015  To have a song number hit number one song in the US is a major accomplishment. .... Number One Song of 1963: Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs - Sugar Shack ... 1969. Number One Song of 1969: Archies - Sugar, Sugar. Archies - Sugar...
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The 10 Best Novelty Songs of the '70s - Oldies Music - About.com  Here are the greatest novelty hits of the 1970s. ... attempt to transfer his success to "serious" songs during the tumultuous Nixon years, ... The Man in Black already had a once-in-a-lifetime novelty hit the previous ... "My Girl Bill," Jim Stafford ... associate him with "Johnny B. Goode," proof that talent and good songwriting...
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Top Christmas Hit Songs - American Music Preservation  Best known recording: Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters (Decca/ MCA). 3. ... HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1944) -- ... Interpreted over the years by each decade's most popular artists, these Holiday favorites remain .... and is frequently heard today in versions by Bruce Springsteen, and the Crystals.
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Overview for Bing Crosby - TCM.com  Get biography information about Bing Crosby on tcm.com. ... but he maintained a huge fanbase and songs like "White Christmas," "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Swinging on a Star" were ..... Acquired nickname, "Bing-o" when he was seven or eight years old, because of his fondness for a comic strip called "The Bingville Bugle".
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THE BING CROSBY NEWS ARCHIVE: January 2011  Jan 2, 2011 ... When he sings, as on the holiday classic White Christmas, one can easily ... Sinatra, who called himself a saloon singer, knew how to use the microphone to ... These songs have the narrator reflect on the past (e.g., You must ..... relaxed and good-natured crooner whose ingratiating movies, records and...