Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1953 Sylvester and Tweety Looney Tunes cartoon, Snow Business, directed by Friz Freleng
This short provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety and Sylvester start off as friends. It is also also a rare short in these Tweety/Sylvester pairings where Sylvester is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor; in this case, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety because he would starve, and is also the prey of a crazed mouse whom is desperate for food.
Before the start of our feature presentation, in case you are already overwhelmed by the holidays, ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you this treat during this holiday season from the BBC: QI December Christmas Special from 2006 -:
It should be mandatory that we watch Stephen Fry every holiday season!
The holiday season is once again upon us, we here at Acme are proud to continue sharing with you the Sixteenth Annual Holiday Video Festival. This weekend, perhaps you are starting to send out your holiday cards (most of the staff of ACME sent out their holidays before Thanksgiving; they wanted to start all of their friends holiday seasons by being the first card they receive.) Why not put The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour on in the background and watch this Christmas classic, the 1942 musical film, Holiday Inn, directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds, and Virginia Dale. (Not surprisingly, the name of the Holiday Inn hotel chain was inspired by the film. The title of the film also inspired the 1946 renaming of a small 19th century inn in Intervale, New Hampshire. By right of precedence its owners were able to bar any other use of the name in that area of New Hampshire until they chose to relinquish it.)
When Irving Berlin won an Oscar for his song White Christmas from this movie, he became the first artist to present himself with an Academy Award. The Connecticut inn set for this film was reused by Paramount 12 years later as a Vermont inn for the musical White Christmas, also starring Bing Crosby, and again with songs composed by Irving Berlin.
Our second holiday theme today is one of our favorite holiday games, "Guess the theme?"
Holly Jolly Christmas -
This was written by songwriter Johnny Marks, who had already written the Christmas classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, a song that proved so popular the stop-motion animators at Rankin-Bass created a half-hour TV special to expand on the song.
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year -
This tune is a collaboration by composer George Wyle (known for writing the Gilligan's Island theme) and his regular partner Eddie Pola. It was written specifically for The Andy Williams Christmas Album and the crooner performed it on his popular variety show, The Andy Williams Show.
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
This Christmas classic was also written by Johnny Marks. The song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 when she was just 13 years old, but didn’t become popular until 1960 after some of Lee’s other work became popular.
Santa Baby
This song was written by Joan Javits and Philip Springer who began working on the song together in 1953. Along with I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, this was one of the first Christmas novelty songs. Christmas songs written at the time tended to be nostalgic looks at the holiday or kid's songs, but this one took a different approach, with Kitt singing about how she's been good all year and expects some very expensive gifts to appear, including a fur coat, a new coat and even a yacht.
(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays -
This popular Christmas tune was written by Perry Como's frequent accompanist Robert Allen and lyricist Al Stillman, who teamed up to write several hits of the era for Como, The Four Lads (Moments To Remember) and Johnny Mathis (Chances Are).
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