Musical Fruitcake

The Wilburn Brothers were a popular country music act from the 1950s to the 1970s, and the duo consisted of brothers Doyle and Teddy Wilburn. Encouraged by their father, they began their professional music career performing as the Wilburn Family on a street corner in Thayer, Missouri, on Christmas Eve 1937, in the hopes of […]

Edward Byrnes was born Edward Byrne Breitenberger in 1933 in New York City. Edd had an unhappy childhood and found escape from family problems at the movies and at the gym. At age 17 he was approached by a man who offered to take free “physique” photos of him, which led to a few years […]

McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of fast-food restaurants, with locations in 120 countries and territories around the world; they serve nearly 54 million customers each day.
The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California, which established the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. […]

“I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is a Christmas song from 1953, that was written by John Rox and performed by a ten year old girl named Gayla Peevey, who was a popular child singer in Oklahoma. The B-side of the original 78 featured the song “Are my Ears on Straight?” The song has […]

Bill Melendez, who is best known for his work on the Peanuts specials, produced this Emmy award-winning 1974 animated Christmas TV special. The animation looks suspiciously like Charles Schulz’ drawings, and it even features some of the same voices used in the Peanuts cartoon specials. Based on Virginia O’Hanlon’s letter from 1897, that she sent […]

Rockabilly bombshell Lillian Briggs, who’s real name was Lillian Biggs, was born in 1932 and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She joined Joy Cayler’s All-Girl Orchestra in 1952, where she was known to put on a “bop hat” and long plaid jacket with huge key chain and hoarsely sing her own lyrics to songs. Two […]

A Garfield Christmas is a 1987 CBS TV Christmas special based on the Garfield comic strip. It features Lorenzo Music (as Garfield) and Lou Rawls, who sings the songs.
Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon’s grandmother’s house for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.
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