Christmas Cavalcade 2020, Part One

Ho Ho Ho my friends! Yes, it’s that time of year again, and as we wind our way towards Christmas Day what better to keep you warm these cold winter nights than this year’s Christmas Cavalcade?

 

Now, I know I’ve been a bit remiss these last couple of months, only posting once a fortnight (if that) rather than every week, and I intend to make that up to you before the end of the year with tonnes of festive goodies and other delights.

 

Let’s kick off today with a couple of Beatle-themed Christmas crackers. Back in December 2017 I gave you I Want a Beatle For Christmas by Becky Lee Beck and Bring Me A Beatle For Christmas by Cindy Rella (what a ridiculous name!), and those are still available HERE, but today I bring you two more (by my reckoning there are at least a dozen Beatles/Christmas novelties, excluding their own Fan Club flexis).

 

First up is (or are) the Fans and I Want a Beatle For Christmas, issued by Dot in the US in 1964. Despite the title it’s an entirely different song to the one performed by Becky Lee Beck that same year. The Fans were a London-based duo, friends Gita Renik and Jeanette Ross, although the disc does not appear to have had a British release.

 

Next up is a British disc, Santa Bring Me Ringo credited to Tich with The Ted Taylor Four With The Corona Kids. Older British Blog followers will no doubt recall Tich as one half of Tich and Quackers, the schoolboy and duck puppets of ventriloquist Ray Alan, popular in the 1960s. Alan would achieve greater fame when he ditched Tich in favour of the much more grown-up Lord Charles. Santa Bring Me Ringo was co-written by Angelo Badalamenti (yes, THAT Angelo Badalamenti), and the song was also recorded ‘straight’ by young Christine Hunter and issued in the US on Roulette.

 

If you’re after something extra to fill you stocking, tune in to the World’s Worst Records Radio Show this coming Wednesday (9 December), when I shall be playing tracks from the BRAND NEW MRS MILLER ALBUM’ A Christmas Gift From Mrs Miller¸ and talking to her great-nephew Jeff: https://wfmu.org/playlists/WR

 

That’s it for now, but there will be loads more over the next few weeks. Enjoy!

 

Download Beatle HERE

Download Santa HERE