Musical Fruitcake

Barry Gordon is an American film and television actor who began his professional life at the age of three as a child singer and actor. In 1952, at age six, he recorded “Nuttin’ for Christmas,” which is one of the top ten best-selling Christmas records of all time.
When he was thirteen, his Broadway debut in […]

In 1974, Red Sovine recorded and released “Santa Claus is a Texas Cowboy” for the Chart Label (CH-5231), backed with “The Legend Of The Christmas Rose.” This one is a bit different from the other Red Sovine songs that have been posted here, because on this song Red actually sings, instead of talk/singing his […]

The BellRays are a “rock ‘n’ soul” group that was founded in the early 1990s in Riverside, California. They opened for The Pixies on their most recent tour, and also with reconstituted MC5, DKT/MC5. Here are The BellRays playing with MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in 2005 at the Operation Ceasefire concert in […]

Alex Houston has been performing for more than 50 years along with his ventriloquist dummy named Elmer, which was purchased for $50 when Alex was 8 years old. His act includes parodies of country songs with Elmer doing most of the singing.

In 1954, Alex and Elmer got booked on Jimmy Dean’s TV show, where they […]

Here is a song from 1970, by a singer named Bob Rich, called “Christmas In My Pants.”
“I’ve got Christmas in my pants/and my hands on my hips/I’ve got Easter for a zipper/and Shakespeare’s upper lip.”
LISTEN TO SONG:

DOWNLOAD MP3:
Bob_Rich_-_Christmas_In_My_Pants.mp3

The Marcels were a doo-wop group that formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and were known for turning pop songs into doo-wop rock and roll. In 1961 their doo-wop version “Blue Moon” sold a million copies and is featured in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.” […]