STAN FREBERG - Green Christmas (1958) - A Classic!

[md63linc]

Love this! Love his Wunnerful Wunnerful parody of Lawrence Welk too. One of the all time greats!!!

[ireteman1]

some things never change , :)

[MrUnidyne]

Recorded 53 years ago, and even more timely than when it was first put to vinyl.

[joefax530]

Not sure what my favorite line is, but I think maybe..."and they're bearing your spices!!" Classic.

[MrSkyHarbor]

@missile742: the 'cha-ching!' thing still worked pretty well for Pink Floyd on 'Money'! ;-}

(but I know what you mean ['debit or charge?' beep-beep]

[Linguist88]

@56Packman

Oops! My bad! Sorrry, Stan.



[TheOtherRoger]

Remember hearing this on KRUX AM Radio 1360 in Phoenix, AZ in 1959. Blew my teenage mind! Bought the Capitol (Records) 45 rpm the next day at Bill's Records in Town & Country Shopping center, played it nonstop until my mom threatened to lock me in my room. Recognized Stan for the genius he was at that time. Check the clip about Freberg on Beany & Cecil for additional background on this fantastic man. I believe that Bob Clampett worked at Disney at one time. THANK YOU, verycoolsound!

[Linguist88]

I've been a huge fan of Stan's genius ever since I first heard "St. George and the Dragonet" back in (I think) 1953. No one has ever topped him for satire. May he rest in peace.

[56Packman]

@Linguist88 --he's still alive!

[roon41]

@Linguist88 Stan is still alive,but I can't blame you for thinking he is gone..It seems as though in today's entertainment industry that it's too focused on people under 40.

[ThatHauntFreak2]

I kinda wish this was a full-length play/musical. lol

[VolkswagenNut1969]

This is a scream, and even more relevant today! Thanks for posting it.

[rd350c]

“Gee Stan, where’s your Christmas Spirit?” “It’s in the rumble seat Porgie, you want a snort?”

[snicky58]

@rd350c LOL. "Doesn't Bottles count?" "Only to ten, Mudhead."

[leesagrrl]

@ProfessorEggflesh

Whatd'ya think the Firesign Theater were listening to before they were the Firesign Theater? This stuff!

[leesagrrl]

Thanx for this! And a heartful shout-out to Cratchet - played fantastically by Daws Butler.

RIP Mr. Butler.

[osscouter]

This was a standard on WNEW-FM every Christmas. Great stuff!

[missile742]

Classic parody. First heard on Dr. Demento years ago. Love the sound of the cash register at the end. Few under 25 can recognize that anymore.

[kiya46107]

@missile742 I can! Which once again makes me different... T_T

[louswire]

ONE of my favorite Stan Freburg bits, including "I'm Getting Nothing For Christmas", "Christmas Dragnet", and so many more.

[librarybob1958]

We've all heard the old saying about "too true to be funny." Well, this is it. And, regrettably, it's even more relevant to our time than it was when it was recorded in 1959.

The story goes that Stan Freberg was inspired to write this piece when he saw a magazine ad showing a family, on Christmas morning, ecstacic over four new whitewall tires. For the son and grandson of ministers, it was just too much, and he had the first draft written that afternoon.

Stan Freberg was and is a genius.

[ElKlido]

It should be mentioned that the "X" in "Xmas" does not mean X-ing Christ out . Quite the contrary. The Greek letter "X" is the symbol for "Christ" in the Greco-Roman world. As for example in the symbol that has the letter "P" overlayed by the letter "X." "Chi Roh." A symbol many Christians would prefer to the cross. We have any number of recent American immigrant green grocers of Mediterranean ancestry to thank for this confusion.

[fromthesidelines]

Wil Wright is "Abercrombie" and "Crass"; Daws Butler is "Bob"; Marvin Miller is the "Announcer"- and Jud Conlon's chorus and Billy May's music wrap everything up. Yes, this record WAS controversial; Capitol refused to issue it at first, but made sure very little publicity was made about it [that's why the record wasn't a big seller]. Stan was interviewed about it at the time for TIME magazine, but their sales department pressured the editors to kill the article.

[MrUnidyne]

The darkest of all ironies was that the author and star of this anti-commercialist recording would spend much of his life writing and recording radio commercials.

[dee4757]

This song was banned from the radio- at least where I lived almost as soon as it came out, I heard it 2x, the station sarted to play it a 3rd time, stopped and said it had been banned.

[cfortunato58]

This is FANTASTIC and I never heard itt before. Thanks.