[78-L] Xmas Music

[Michael Biel]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> David,  Is the 1942 version from the movie soundtrack or was it also a Decca 
> record?
>
>   

The Decca record.  For some reason Decca re-recorded it after the war 
and it was that version that was on all the later albums on all three 
speeds.  The first re-issue of the original was on an early Smithsonian 
subscription CD of Irving Berlin records.

> I was told by his nephew that John Scott Trotter never received a dime of 
> royalties for the Crosby record or for his arrangement...but he and Crosby 
> still remained friends ever after!
>
> Taylor B
>
>
>   
Why should he?  He got paid for the recording session and the 
arrangement if it was his he got paid for it, too.  The only ones who 
ever get statutory royalties on record sales are the composer and the 
music publisher.  If the performer wants royalties they have to contract 
that with the record company, so even Crosby's royalties weren't 
automatic.  If Trotter didn't have a deal with Decca, too bad.  That is 
why the fools who want to extend their copyright laws to help the 
performers and the sidemen are on a fool's errand.  The record company 
will take all the extra money, and most of the time it isn't even the 
same record company.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Xmas Music
>
>
>   
>> I lived through the Jimmy Boyd when it was new..oddly enough, I never hear 
>> it
>> coming out of the WalMart speakers or the E-Z format stations, only the 
>> new one
>> (which may not be THAT new, it could be an Osmond or a Jackson or some 
>> other
>> argument for retroactive birth control). Gene Autry endures, both Eartha 
>> Kitt
>> recordings + Madonna's Santa Baby abound, and I even heard the ORIGINAL 
>> 1942
>> Crosby White Christmas on a store's system last week..it's the late 40s 
>> one
>> that's around everywhere, and there are audible differences in the 
>> arrangement
>> and performance.
>>
>> Tom wrote:
>>     
>>> Almost as bad as the version with the title "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa
>>> Claus," I guess. lol
>>>       
>> I've yet to hear the suppressed Spike Jones feelthy version, which I know 
>> Will
>> Friedwald has.
>>
>> kil at roadrunner.com wrote:
>>     
>>> That's the Jackson Five version from 1970 featuring little Michael, who 
>>> was either 11 or 12 at the time.  Can't blame him for the words, though, 
>>> he was just following directions.  Production credits go to The 
>>> Corporation and Hal Davis.
>>> I agree, that one is pretty low on my list but not nearly as bad as my 
>>> least favorite, THE CHRISTMAS SHOES by Newsong.  It's so sick I turn off 
>>> the station that plays it for at least two days.  It doesn't help as most 
>>> modern stations keep playing it.
>>> RayK
>>>
>>>       
>> That answers THAT..I thought it was one of those little monsters. If it 
>> was
>> from 1970, I had 3 years of keeping it off the air at CKLB. That was when 
>> I was
>> about the only music director playing Feliz Navidad.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Maria Fletcher wrote:
>>     
>>> Just deciding whether or not to put  Jimmy Boyd's version of "I saw
>>> mommy kissing santa claus" on the family christmas cd - I can see
>>> their faces now...
>>>
>>> 2008/12/25 David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>:
>>>       
>>>> And my absolute LEAST favourite at the moment is a version of I Saw 
>>>> Mommy
>>>> Kissing Santa Claus, sung by some screaming little boy who keeps 
>>>> interjecting
>>>> "I did! I did! I saw Mommy kissing Santy Claus!" Worse than the 
>>>> Chipmunks,
>>>> worse than the Jingle Cats, and it goes on forever. What sick twisted 
>>>> mind
>>>> thought this was fit to inflict on the world?
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> Tom Hood wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>> My favorite Christmas recording is Jingle Bells by the Shannon Quartet
>>>>> Victor VE 19791 I've been listening to it for 65 years &  it still gets 
>>>>> me
>>>>> into a Christmas mood
>>>>> Merry Christmas
>>>>> Tom Hood
>>>>>
>>>>>