Musical Fruitcake

I don’t even know what to say about this song. I have no idea who Beulah is, but here she is singing “Santa Kissed Me.” The tempo of the song puts me to sleep, but the voice of the singer jerks me back to reality. It’s a terrible car wreck of a song […]

Here is another Christmas song from Kay Martin and Her Body Guards, called “The Girls Were All Happy,” which is a jazzy poem in the vein of “The Night Before Christmas.” According to Kay, on the night before Christmas, Santa likes to stop at “dancing schools” to peruse and “dance” with the ladies.
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The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who became popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Jack Kerouac’s stream of consciousness story, On the Road, is widely considered as one of the genre’s most important works. It took Kerouac just 21 days to type the story of his 7 year trek […]

Reece Shipley (1921 - 1998) was a well-respected Country Swing and Rockabilly songwriter and singer. In the early 1950s, Shipley performed regularly on radio programs, such as WKPT’s “Saturday Night Hayride.”
He released a number of rockabilly records in the mid 1950s, for such labels as Decca, Mercury and BML. His song “Milk Bucket Boogie,” […]

“Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile” is a Song-Poem that was recorded by an artist named Heather Noel, that plays on cold war fears, similar to “Mister Russian, Please Don’t Shoot Down Santa’s Sleigh.” This song serves as a reminder that military equipment, preemptive war and nuclear weapons make terrible stocking stuffers.
The recording opens with […]

Punk bands create short, fast, raw songs, with bare instrumentation and often political or nihilistic lyrics. The punk subculture expresses a variety of anti-authoritarian and anarchistic ideologies. Punk rock emerged between 1974 and 1977, and was led by groups such as the Ramones and The Sex Pistols. It was preceded by a variety of protopunk […]