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Various Artists Pennies from Heaven - Burke, Johnny [Lyri Sleigh Ride - Anderson, Leroy Sleigh Ride/Santa Claus Party - Anderson, Leroy Baby, Its Cold Outside - Loesser, Frank Jingle Bells - Pierpont, James Nothing From Nothing - Fisher, Bruce It takes a pretty deft touch to make us believe towering Will Ferrell as a displaced human cum Santas elf, Ed Asner as St. Nick and make a Christmas movie thats as loopy/sassy as it is seasonally sentimental. Yet thats ...   more &raquowhat director Jon...

Vomit, traffic chaos and babies sacked for crying - Secrets of Elf the movie Elf is a 2003 Christmas movie which was directed by Jon Favreau and stars Anchorman actor Will Ferrell as well as Zooey Deschanel and is set in New York City Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Join the Secret Elves to get first access to our exclusive reviews of the must-have products this year.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up When you subscribe we will use the inf...

Larry had a slackened look. "Im afraid they aint sellin yet, Will." Eddie handed me the Jim Franklin poster. It was great: fireworks burst along the top of a banner-sized American flag stretched across a two-lane highway, and sneaking underneath was a lone armadillo nonchalantly carrying the Texas flag in its mouth. A perfect Fourth of July poster. I looked at the performer list. Except for Doug Sahm, it had the same kind of lineup as the Dripping Springs Reunion the year before without its big...

The Ventures - Christmas Album The Ventures Christmas album from 1965 is one of my favorites. Each track features a classic rock riff that morphs into a holiday tune. For example, The Ventures take the Ray Charles tune, "Whatd I say," substituting guitar for that opening keyboard riff. Then they quickly push the throttle into "Jingle Bells." The band also takes the Beatles "I feel fine" and blends it seamlessly into "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." These tracks are very 60s, almost cliches, bu...

  James, Alex, Kate, Livingston, (father) Ike Taylor in Carrboro 1952    In this most eclectic mix-bag of videos, we stay in the holiday spirit, as we move ever closer to Christmas Day. Joining us is a mirthful James Taylor (actually from Carrboro / Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a place where the creative grist of a great many of his best tunes originate), the always preposterous Dr. John with Leon Redbone (long one of my favorites from my personal Christmas compact disc, but alas no video...

Last modified on Thu 10 Dec 2020 12.24 EST Tony Rice – Cold on the Shoulder Growing up in Illinois, I didn’t have teenage angst. My parents encouraged my brother and I to speak our minds and I remember a lot of laughs. My brother’s band would come round at lunchtime and we were always playing music, and we were goofy. We weren’t into drugs or alcohol, so for anything I did, I was completely conscious [laughs]. I was a daydreamer, though, and was fascinated by things from when my grandpa...