DEC 4, 2010: It’s My Vinyl !!!!

Christmastime with Vinyl: Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" from the b-side of "My Hometown" (one 'town' per side down at Columbia?), and the same cut is also found on Sesame Street's album In Harmony 2.  The Crystals with an excerpt from Phil Spector's Christmas Album (Phil Spector's Christmas Single - actually a 3-song 7-inch dia 45 rpm EP), and the same song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"...David McDonald circa 1981 from Rochester NY and a holiday original, from a 45 on DRC records produced by Scott Meade.  The Beatles with the "Nowhere Man"/"What Goes On?" single, Capitol 5587, the latter being Ringo's first song authorship...first pressings of the single and album "Yesterday"...And Today, credited the song to Lennon/McCartney, but follow-on pressings corrected the credit to read "Lennon-McCartney-Starkey".  This version is in mono, but the stero version gives you more audible "off-mike" vocals from Ringo...try it sometime....the hour continues with Keith Richards' first solo recording, a single on Rolling Stones Records from the late 70s, Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run".  We're saving the b-side, Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come", for post-Holiday episodes...then nothing solo from Keith for over a decade (except a token lead vocal or two on Rolling Stones albums, and that Barbarians community service thing in Canada)...the hour continues with The Cowsills' "Hair", The Left Banke walking away from Renee, David Clayton Thomas's version of Joni Mitchell's "River" from a MusicGram soundsheet included with a Christmas greeting card, Donny Hatheway's "This Christmas" from a mono promo single on Atco, and a series of "O's"...Jeffery Osborne, Ozo, and Oxo...and of course, Wonderdog's instrumental version of "A Christmas Tail (instrumental disco mix)" and Rob Wasserman's version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" used as bed music throughout the hour.