Stan Freberg   Green Christmas and The Meaning of Christmas  with the Jud Conlon Chorale and Billy May’s Music.   Capitol Records   “Ho Ho Ho there Matthew, I just found this at an antique store in Healdsburg, Ca.  Good buttoned-down cover.  Be sure to read Stan’s anti-commercialism screed on the back.   Merry Christmas!  Nick in Santa Rosa, Ca.”

“The Fabulous Mr. Noel McKay” on Viking Records and “Bold ‘n Blue”  (Recorded Live at MoJo’s Nitespot in Auckland, New Zealand)  Calendar Records (New Zealand)

“Good Grief, Its… CANDY”  Colleen Lovett  Laff Records For Adults Only   “Happiness is a bare bottom”

Anyone up for a good ELEPHANT JOKE!?  Just ask Betty Marnell, Higgins & Lord Willoughby or Bob Manchel  “Elephant Jokes” on Rosco Records  Includes my faves “Safari Nice Elephant,” “My Husband THE elephant” and “Stop Me If You’ve Herd This”.  By the way,  “How do you stop an elephant from charging?”  Hmmmm?

Pucho Ferrandez en Noche de Boda   Puchito Records   (“Solo Para MaYores”)

Peter Hnatiuk   “I Wish I Was Single Again!”   V Records

Columbia Records presents Danny Kaye   An album of four 78 RPM 10″ records   in a gatefold jacket.   (Circa 1953)   Includes eight songs:   C91-6The Fairy Pipers and The Babbitt and The Bromide. C91-2 Minnie the Moocher and Let’s Not Talk About Love C91-7 Eileen and Dinah C91-4 Anatole of Paris and Farming

… if my wife finds out, she’ll kill me! “Kosher Comedy”   by Benny Bell   Zion Records (1960)

A Jewish grandmother is watching her grandchild playing on the beach when a huge wave comes and takes him out to sea. She pleads, “please God, save my only grandson. I beg of you, bring him back.” And a big wave comes and washes the boy back onto the beach, good as new. She looks up to heaven and says: “He had a hat!”

For more, see Old Jews Telling Jokes here.

“Shalom Pardner”   Yiddish-American Funny Songs & Humor by Leo Fuchs     Tikva Records