I like the idea of the early 1950's being
wayyyyyy before my time!

Here's another wayyyyyy back Xmas song ...
from 1951 (year I was born)

Gonna Have a Merry Christmas

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Suzy Snowflake was REALLY strange ... !!!

Here's a Stan Freberg Xmas classic

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And a more recent holiday "classic" ...

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Dewey! What is the other doo-wop song that has "cry cry cry" in the title or the lyrics? I LOVE that song - what is it??? When I was trying to find it I came across this bit of weirdness ... Lisa & The Lullabies - Why Do I Cry [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kms7pJT9J0[/youtub...

DJ Mook is giving thanks for many things this week. A few items on my list: the amazingly wonderfully fabulous RECORD PARTY ... and a couple of songs that always get me up & dancing on a Monday morning: COOL JERK - THE CAPITOLS [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5P6jrQ6kU0&feature=rela...

DJ MOOK has been so inexplicably consumed with Bix Beiderbecke lately she has been neglecting, among other things (sleeping, getting to work on time, personal grooming, etc.) her RECORD PARTY DUTIES ... Fortunately I have managed to drag myself away from Bix long enough to remember it's Robert Ryan'...

Something about the rain and winter coming around again, even in San Francisco, has got me thinking a lot about Bix lately ... In A Mist [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp1FykVq4xc[/youtube] Twenty-eight and dying of booze. Through eight years of hot cornet on bandstands and jamming, he caug...

This is all getting TOO WEIRD! You guys are FREAKING ME OUT! How about some nice, sensible .... Screamin' Jay Hawkins? I Put A Spell On You [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR81PGlBeqE&feature=related [/youtube] Betty Boop's Halloween Party? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUp_yg_...

I don't know what's happening over there in Oakland, Dewey, but in San Francisco it's RAINING! As a transplanted New Yorker (born in LA - but left my heart in New York) I love anything that resembles weather! Stormy Weather - The Leaders [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o6qKsbqaIs&featur...

DETAILS?? You're offering no details??????? Greenwich Village? Young, cute, long black hair, musicians, celebrities??? Who - what - where - when???????? Anyone interested in hearing my low-rent SKY SAXON (of the long-defunct 60's garage band "The Seeds") story? ... I didn't think so! :D [...

Just found an interview with Kenny Vance, of Jay and The Americans, talking about the Carnegie Hall concert where they also opened for the Stones. (I was at that concert too ... but my memory of it is extremely dim, compared to the Academy of Music concert ... possibly because I didn't end up sittin...

I want to hear the "Turtles in Brooklyn" story! In 1964 my best friend Debbie and I went to a Rolling Stones concert at the 14th Street Academy of Music in New York. We sat in the middle of the second row (ticket price: $7.00) and screamed throughout the entire concert. I started sobbing u...

Still thinking about doo wop hits from 1963-'64 that overlapped with (or hit right before) the British Invasion ... The Tymes - So Much In Love [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Rp07Cg5wc&feature=related[/youtube] Randy and the Rainbows (the pride of Maspeth, New York!) - Denise [youtube...

I was just about to post "I've Told Every Little Star" and then realized that Dewey already beat me to it! Bummer, man! So, veering away from all the great early-60's gals ... I'm offering up The Reflections instead: (Just Like) Romeo And Juliet ... I love this song!!! I'm also surprised i...

I feel like I've fallen into an early 60's time warp!

Here's Joanie Sommers again, giving voice
to The Pepsi Generation

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I haven't heard Johnny Ange l in AGES - thanks! ... it reminded me of another pre-teen "Johhny" song: Johnny Get Angry performed by Joanie Sommers in 1962 ... what a WEIRD song ... on oh so many levels ...including an instrumental break featuring a kazoo chorus ... what was that about? [yo...