The Story of Santa Claus (1955 single)

THE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS (Sam Ulano)

This is the B side of a single I wrote about a few years ago, "Santa and the Doodle-li-boop." That track was a cover of the original 1954 recording by Art Carney. On his version, Carney's B side was a synchopated reading of "The Night Before Christmas." Sam Ulano's cover had this second Alan Abel composition, which sounds like a highly-caffeinated improv by Ulano and a drummer (perhaps himself) manically describing Santa's Christmas Eve. Pretty funny, we loved it as kids almost as much as the A side.

This is the fourth in my yearly series of silly Christmas 45rpm records from my childhood collection. The others are:

Santa and the Doodle-li-boop

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

Are My Ears On Straight?

This may be the last one I can do, the other Christmas-themed 45s I have are all big name artists, and probably easily available elsewhere.