A Christmas Yuleblog

This one almost had me in its tentacles. eBay had several copies tempting me to spend $20 or more to get my own LP. Thankfully, I checked out the cool wax. Brainwerk runs the fun sharity blog entitled " Check The Cool Wax " whose great Christmas comp I reviewed here earlier this year. Last November, he posted this album and I was able to scratch this one off my list. By the looks of the cover, it promises to be a fun, fun album. Fast Freddy Flintstone on the stalagmite organ, Snagglepuss pickin' the bass, Huckleberry Hounddog on the chimes, and don't forget Magilla Gorilla on the triangle! But we're putting the cartoon horse before the cartoon cart. We have to go back to 1939 for the beginning of this story. On the backlot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stood the animation studio where William Hanna and Joseph Barbera first met. They had an instant rapport and set to complete their first collaboration - a 1940 cartoon called "Puss Gets The Boot"...

Throughout the 2006 Christmas downloading season, a great number of sites and blogs went above and beyond the call of duty with Christmas shares. Brainwerk's always hip and always fun blog entitled " Check The Cool Wax " contributed mightily to the festivities last year with a boatload of Christmas mirth. Throughout the other eleven months of the year, Brainwerk posts some of the most incredulous vinyl finds on the planet. For example, his latest post is a super ultra rare Bob Crane / "Hogan's Heroes" album that has Klink and Schultz hovering over Hogan behind a drum kit in Stalag 13! (Bet I just lost about 1/4 of my readers... DIS missed!) Back to last December. Brainwerk included among his Christmas shares the Mistletoe Disco Band's "Yuletide Disco", "Christmas With Melis" (Jose Melis), and an assortment of select MP3s and amazing artwork. Calm yourself - most of those links are down. Two days before Christmas last yea...