BRAD WEISMANN: From the archives: Have a Rankin/Bass Christmas!

Friday, December 3, 2010

From the archives: Have a Rankin/Bass Christmas!

Hey! Now that the holidays are here, it's time to dwell on the true purpose of Christmas -- watching the usual Xmas shows, especially the garish, stop-motion parade of Rankin/Bass holiday specials! Whether they haunted your childhood dreams or annoy your offspring today, they are a vital part of the season. Let's stroll down Memory Lane in this story from 2009 --

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The Magic Music and Sound List

10cc, The Original Soundtrack
A Girl Called Eddy, A Girl Called Eddy
Alarm Will Sound, Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Alberta Hunter, Remember my Name
Alicia de Larrocha, Albeniz: Iberia
Anita O'Day, This is Anita
Art Pepper, Smack Up
Artie Shaw, Personal Best
Bach, Two Concertos for Two Pianos -- Casadesus
Bach, Two- and Three-Part Inventions -- Gould
Bad Livers, Hogs on the Highway
Beatles, White Album
Bertolt Brecht, Before the Un-American Activities Committee
Bill Cosby, Right!
Bill Evans, Live at the Village Vanguard
Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Newhart, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
Brad Mehldau Trio, Day is Done
Brian Eno and David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Casey Driessen, 3D
Chad Mitchell Trio, Singin' Our Minds
Connie Evingson, Gypsy in My Soul
Danny Kaye, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Jazz Impressions of Japan
Devo, New Traditionalists
Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
Elvis Costello, My Aim is True
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch!
Erik Satie, Complete Works for Piano v. 1 -- Aldo Ciccolini
EZT, Goodbye Little Doll
Fats Waller, Complete Works
Firesign Theater, Don't Crush that Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers
Flip Wilson, Cowboys and Colored People
Fog, Ether Teeth
Frank Zappa, Apostrophe (')
Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
Frank Zappa, Sheik Yerbouti
Fred Hersch, Nourishing the Caregiver
Garland Jeffreys, The King of In Between
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Hank Williams, Ultimate Collection
Hot Rize, Radio Boogie
Hot Rize, Red Knuckles & Hot Rize: Live
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line
Joni Mitchell, Hejira
King Sunny Ade, Juju Music
Laurie Anderson, Big Science
Little Walter, Boss Blues Harmonica
Lou Reed, New York
Louis Armstrong, Sugar
Mahler, Symphony #2 -- Kaplan, LSO
Manu Chao, Esperanza
Mario Lanza, The Student Prince
Max Steiner, 'King Kong' score
Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
Mose Allison, Your Mind is on Vacation
Mozart, Don Giovanni -- Maazel, 1978
Neil Young, Tonight's the Night
New Grass Revival, Hold to a Dream
New Order, Power Corruption and Lies
O'Jays, Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays
Pete Seeger, We Shall Overcome
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1982)
Peter Tosh, The Toughest
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
PM Dawn; Of the Heart Of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
Ramones, Ramonesmania
Richard and Linda Thompson, Pour Down Like Silver
Richard Pryor, Wanted
Richard Thompson, Henry the Human Fly
Robert Klein, New Teeth
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma/Carousel/The King and I
Roger Miller, The Return of Roger Miller
Rolling Stones, Some Girls
Shostakovich, Symphony #4 - Inbal, Wiener Symphoniker
Sibelius, Symphony 5 (final version) -- Vanska, Lahti Symphony
Sly and the Family Stone, Anthology
Steeley Dan, Pretzel Logic
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
Stravinsky, Les Noces -- Bernstein
Strength in Numbers, The Telluride Sessions
Talking Heads, Fear of Music
The Kingston Trio, The Kingston Trio
The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
The Mothers, Cruisin' with Ruben and the Jets
The Mothers, We're Only in It for the Money
The Velvet Underground & Niko
Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club
Tom Waits, Nighthawks at the Diner
Uncle Earl, Waterloo Tennessee
Van Morrison, Beautiful Vision
Village Music of Bulgaria/Bulgarian Folk Music
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons -- Zuckerman
Was (Not Was), Born to Laugh at Tornadoes
Ween, Chocolate and Cheese
Willie Dixon, The Chess Box
Willie Nelson, Shotgun Willie
XTC, English Settlement