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2015/12/17
赤城乳業の「ガリガリ君」が東京・二子玉川で新味の無料サンプリングを行うぞ~! その数なんと1万本ッ!! アイス好きがいるとは言っても、1万本は多すぎじゃないの!?
このイベントは2015年12月20日、世田谷区の商業施設二子玉川ライズで行われる。当日は、『ガリガリ君のうた』を歌うポカスカジャンがライブを行うほか、ガリガリ君グッズがもらえるゲームが行われたり、クリスマス仕様のガリガリ君「ガリサンタ」も出演するそうだ。

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この冬、箱でアイスを買って、酒を飲んだ後、食べている。
火照った胃袋が冷やされてキモチいいのだ。

The Murmaids – Popsicles And Icicles(1963/10)
ザ・マーメイズ – 恋のドライヴ・イン
2度目の引用。

arranged by Nestor La Bonte
The Murmaids’ only success was composed by songwriter, studio musician, and record producer David Gates, who would begin creating his own hits in 1970 as leader of the group Bread.

Percy Faith and his Orchestra – Popsicles and Icicles 恋のドライヴ・イン
from the album “More Themes For Young Lovers”(1964)
2度目の引用。

Bill Comstock – An Icicle Touched By The Sun
シングル “Give Me Time” のB面。

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Bing Crosby – Christmas Dinner Country Style(Capitol:1963/11/25)
シングル “Do You Hear What I Hear?” のB面。
orchestra & chorus conducted by Ralph Carmichael
produced by Simon Rady
手拍子が入る。

Bing Crosby – Do You Hear What I Hear(Decca version)

Bing Crosby – Do You Hear What I Hear?(Capitol:1963/11/25)

orchestra and chorus conducted by Ralph Carmichael
Pop Chart Peak: Cash Box #66 Billboard Christmas Chart Peak #2
The Harry Simeone Chorale had released the first notable recording of this Christmas seasonal favorite one year before Bing’s popular version.

Harry Simeone Chorale – Do You Hear What I Hear?(Mercury:1962/12)
from the album The Harry Simeone Chorale “The Wonderful Songs Of Christmas”(Mercury:1963)

1st Recording Of “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Transferred from LP, originally issued on 45rpm: Mercury 72065
Later Simeone re-recordings of this (and his “Little Drummer Boy”) have been widely distributed since the 1960s, but this is his original’62 version. Not a major success initially, the song would achieve more lasting fame a year later via Bing Crosby’s recording for Capitol.

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Harry Simeone Chorale – March Of The Angels(1962/12)
シングル “Do You Hear What I Hear?” のB面。
from the album The Harry Simeone Chorale “The Wonderful Songs Of Christmas”(1963)
conducted by Harry Simeone
produced by Hal Mooney

Melodically based in-part on “Angels We Have Heard On High,” this was on the flip of Simeone’s original recording of the song “Do You Hear What I Hear”

Perry Como -(There’s No Place Like)Home for the Holidays(1954/12 his original version)
orchestra & chorus conducted by Mitchell Ayres
SP盤 “Silk Stockings” のB面。
2度目の引用。

arranged by Joe Reisman
recorded November 16, 1954
1st Recording Of “(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays”
Billboard Chart Peaks: 8(radio play), 18(sales)
Here is Perry’s original feel-good 1954 Christmas hit. In 1959, RCA Victor had him record a differently-arranged stereo version that dropped the brassy big band open in favor of a more low-key intro . For decades, that later release was the only one that RCA would issue on its various holiday music compilations.

Ralph Marterie and his Orchestra – Dig That Crazy Santa Claus(1954/12)
vocal: Lola Dee and chorus
シングル “Rock! Rock!” のB面。

‘Pop’ version of the Oscar McLollie R&B release

David Whitfield – Santo Natale(Merry Christmas)(1954/11)
orchestra and chorus conducted by Stanley Black

Perhaps the more often-heard CD reissue version of this #2 UK hit (top-30 U.S.) is a truncated re-master beginning with a fade-in effect rather than the cold opening that we had always heard on the popular Whitfield hit. Here is the original 1954 single.

Billy May and his Orchestra – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer-Mambo(1954/10)
vocal: Alvin Stoller

Rudolph got in on the late’54 mambo craze via this and the also-posted version by the Frank Petty Trio.

Jimmy Boyd – I Saw Mommy Do The Mambo(With You Know Who)(1954/10/18)
orchestra conducted by Mitch Miller

Another of the several 1954 recordings in this collection that were part of pop music’s mid-50s mambo craze, this was a sequel to Jimmy’s #1 hit of 1952 “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra – Jingle Bells Mambo(1954/10/25)

With the mambo rhythm all the rage in 1954, here is one of two mambo-flavored releases of “Jingle Bells” included in this posting (see also the Frank Petty Trio version). The flipside of this 45, Rugolo’s clever “Theme From The Lombardo Ending,” can also be found on this channel.

Frank Petty Trio, Mike De Napoli, piano – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer-Mambo(1954)

Released in the midst of the 1954-55 mambo craze, here is the flipside of the also-posted Petty track “Jingle Bells Mambo.”

Frank Petty Trio, Mike Di Napoli, piano – Jingle Bells-Mambo(1954)

With mambo rhythm all the rage in 1954, here is one of two mambo-flavored releases of “Jingle Bells” included in this posting (see also the Pete Rugolo version). Flipside of the Petty is “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo” which is posted here as well.

Betty Johnson – I Want Eddie Fisher For Christmas(1954/11)
orchestra and chorus conducted by Jimmy Leyden

Eddie had been pop music’s hottest singer for the past couple of years, and you may note in these lyrics the titles of several of his song hits.

Art Carney -‘Twas The Night Before Christmas(1954/11/22)

Flipside of the previously posted “Santa And The Doodle-Li-Boop”

オンビートのラップか。

The McGuire Sisters – Give Me Your Heart For Christmas(1954/11)
orchestra and chorus conducted by Dick Jacobs

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Eartha Kitt – This Year’s Santa Baby
from the movie “New Faces”(1954)

Eartha Kitt – This Year’s Santa Baby(1954/11)
orchestra conducted by Henri Rene
続編。

It was only a year earlier that Kitt’s “Santa Baby” had topped the Christmas music charts, and now she wants MORE !!!!

Jody Levins And His Boys – Jingle Bells Boogie(1954)
最初と最後に『ジングル・ベル』を短く引用。

Richard Hayman, His Harmonica And His Orchestra – Winter Wonderland(1954)

Instrumental for harmonica and orchestra.

The Regals – There’ll Always Be A Christmas(1954/11)

No masterpiece, to be sure, but of some interest as the earlier version of a song that the Ames Brothers would later record and use as the title for their 1957 Christmas album.

The Crew-Cuts – Twinkle Toes(1954/11)
orchestra conducted by David Carroll
2度目の引用。

Another attempt to immortalize one of Santa’s reindeer in a song.

Kitty Kallen – The Spirit Of Christmas(1954/11)
orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis

“The Official 1954 Christmas Seal Sale Song”

 

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