[78-L] Jimmy Boyd Obit

[soundthink at aol.com]

Very strange. I was just reading about Boyd in Hecky Krasnow's daughter's book about his years as the head of Columbia's kiddie record division. She had a crush on him and said that he was forced to wear his little cowboy outfit to school every day to remind people of who he was. The most incredible story in the book is about George Kleinsinger's walk-up New York apartment (the elevator rarely worked) which resembled a jungle, complete with tropical plants, snakes, birds, and native insects.

Cary Ginell


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
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Sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 2:26 am
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmz Boyd Obit



rshirer at neb.rr.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> Just saw this on the NYT website.  
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/arts/10boyd.html
> 
> The Mommy Santa Claus record is truly one of the most annoying and cloying of 
the Christmas novelty songs. (I actually like "I want a Hippopotamus for 
Christmas".)
> Cheers,
> Bob Shirer
> _______________________________________________
I was 12 at the time and understood the meaning of the lyric, even 
though the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston didn't! And they're 
supposed to be the purveyors of wisdom.

      Julian Vein

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