Boomer Xmas

From the Christmas record cabinet

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• 2026-11-01 · 16 min
  Ribbon Cutting at the North Pole
  What's in it

  1. 0:00 Boomer Xmas opens: Skip Delaney welcomes you
  2. 1:17 Perry Como - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas — "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Meredith Willson in 1951, with an original title of "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". Perry Como was the first to record and release the song that same year.
  3. 3:50 KHJ Radio Jingle (1963) — Boss Radio was the name of two radio programming formats that both began in the early 1960s, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom. Although they shared a name, the two formats differed considerably from each other.
  4. 4:16 Movieland Drive-In Theater (commercial, 1959) — A 1959 television commercial for Remco's Movieland Drive-In Theater playset, a toy that featured a projection booth, marquee, ticket window, and six cars, with appearances by actress Patty Duke demonstrating how the toy worked.
  5. 5:17 Boomer Xmas on Stupid Potato
  6. 5:26 Nat 'King' Cole - The Christmas Song
  7. 8:46 Cap'n Crunch Cereal (commercial, 1988)
  8. 9:17 Boomer Xmas on Stupid Potato
  9. 9:27 Brenda Lee - Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day
  10. 11:47 Mel Torme - US Army Reserve PSA — Melvin Howard Tormé, known as "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician and performer who worked as a singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" and co-wrote its lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and received a total of 14 Grammy nominations.
  11. 12:27 Rosemary Clooney - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm — "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" is a song copyrighted in 1937 by composer Irving Berlin that was first recorded by Ray Noble with vocalist Howard Barrie, Red Norvo with vocalist Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday with her orchestra. The song debuted in the film On the Avenue on February 12, 1937, sung by Dick Powell and Alice Faye.
  12. 14:48 Skip Delaney signs off