A Christmas Yuleblog

The album you are looking at holds a special spot in my collection.  It was one of the first Christmas albums I actively searched for when I seriously began collecting Christmas music.  It also was the first album I ever shared online (first at FaLaLaLaLa.com , then here ).   And it's still one of the most popular shares in my sharity list   (over 800 downloads since I first posted this). Since I'm a sentimental guy, I decided when I got my new USB turntable in hopes of remastering many of my older shares that this would be the first album that would get the star treatment. I think Mae West would have been pleased. I had rescanned the covers (300 dpi) and the record labels and was getting ready to drop the needle to re-record the glorious tones of Ms. West. But... I was reading my new copy of Goldmine Magazine and discovered a vendor selling a new Canadian import 2-for-1 CD.  In addition to this album, you get West's 1970 album "The Fabulou...

From time to time this upcoming Christmas season, I'll be posting some amazing videos that have been rescued by people like us and posted at the mecca of all things wonderful and obscure - YouTube . I invite you to add a fun comment, witticism, clever remark, or observation in the comments section provided. Any comments deemed worthy of repeating will be included into this entry where all the world will see it. The inaugural video to start us off is one I never thought would see the light of day - the stuff of urban legend. This is from the 1958 Academy Awards and it teams two icons of different eras - the first is the irrepressible Mae West (whose Christmas album I posted several years ago), the second is Rock Hudson, whose popularity was riding high at the time. Brace yourself - this is the very definition of "campy fun" as you'll ever see: You may now reach down and close your jaw off the floor. What do you think? Capt

Everyone remembers their first time. My first time was with Mae West. It's not as shocking as you think, dirty minded people. Last year, this was the very first full Christmas album I recorded, transferred, and offered as sharity anywhere. This is what my description of the album read as posted at FaLaLaLaLa : In 1966, Mae West was on a roll! Her earlier album release that year was "Way Out West", a minor hit on college campuses that featured songs like "When A Man Loves A Woman", "Shakin' All Over", and two Beatle covers (everyone was covering the Beatles in '66). For more info on that album, click here: Mae West - Way Out West Quick to act before the momentum ran out, Mae went into the recording studio again to record this album. They probably rushed the recordings in order to get it out on time for Christmas (maybe why there's only eight songs on the album) but she gives each tune the FULL Mae West treatment. This featu...