#jimmy boyd

[shipperqueen6]

WIP Wednesday

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Sharing a little bit of the first in my NCIS fic series, the sequel is coming along nicely I think 🩵

Sebastian got it. “Just talk to him. Chris is a good guy. He wouldn't string you along. At least not knowingly."

"Thanks. How about you and Carter?”

Sebastian flushed as he grinned. "We got a FWB thing going on.”

"And you're happy with that?"

Seb shrugged "For now. I mean he's only here

for a few weeks. It's not going to be permanent.”

“And if he was going to stay?”

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[shushmuckle]

Very literally, underneath his beard of snowy white.

[rockabillyfootnotes]

shari sheeley, the teenager who's made a tiny fortune writing hit songs for such teenagers as ricky nelson, eddie cochran, etc., has written a new song, "perquackey," for jimmy boyd... it's expected to really start jimmy ("i saw santa claus kissing mama") boyd on the comeback road.

los angeles evening citizen news hollywood, california monday, march 23, 1959

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 3rd December 1953

Well, here we are, our first Christmassy post. It' a festive bunch of songs, and normally I'd object to this in November, but I'm off to a month-early Christmas dinner, so for once, it' fine, mostly.

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd (peaked at No. 3)

It's a song I know, but I don't think this is the standard version nowadays, and there's good reason for that. Jimmy Boyd first appeared on the tooth-upsetting Tell Me a Story, duetting with Frankie Laine, and this solo outing is very much a continuation of some similar trends.

Throughout, Jimmy is deliberately very "kidd-y". He was 13 when he recorded it, but the vibe is even younger, and there's little that I like less than deliberately cutesy kids. Kids are cute all the time without needing to deliberately "cutesy" it up.

It also doesn't help that his voice is particularly nasal, and done no favours by a version of this song that's a good clip slower than the version I'm familiar with.

It's a solid enough idea for a song, though - clever even! The kid doesn't know that dad's playing Santa, so he thinks (seemingly without any understanding of infidelity, which, fair, because kid) that he's caught his mother enjoying a moment with Santa. "What a laugh it would have been, if daddy had only seen!" indeed.

As a kid, I for whatever reason didn't pick up on the first part, but I did pick up on the infidelity thing, and even at quite a young age I just assumed the joke was that his mother was cheating on dad with Santa. Which... merry Christmas, I guess?

Apart from that little bit of mild wink-wink naughtiness, this version is actually quite sleepy, fitting for a song set apparently quite late at night on Christmas eve. There's some floaty organ, some steel guitar and some ghostly backing singers going "oooooh", plus that Christmas staple, some bells at the end.

I should like this more, really. It's just irritating, and a touch too slow. There will be better versions of this - heck, I can see one coming up again pretty soon!

Dragnet - Ted Heath & His Orchestra (9)

The title here immediately said theme tune to me - and some research told me I was right, this is a cover of the theme music to the eponymous US cop show, Dragnet.

In fact, it was apparently iconic enough that the "daaa-da-da-da' tune here became shorthand for "scene with cops" in various media ever since. Not sure if that still holds true today, but it is catchy and distinctive, combining stabbing, low brass with timpani and some clashy, discordant chords, before breaking into something very jazzy. It's menacing, and feels dangerous, but also cool.

It's good, dramatic music - I know this is a big band cover, but I hope the original is just as punchy. It's simple but effective, repeating the same four notes in different combinations ad nauseam and building to a big note finish, with some trumpets going "waah-waah-waah".

One bit also vaguely sounds like the string chase from the Doctor who theme, which I love. Accidental, but cool.

I don't know why people were going out and buying this as a single, that's my only question here. Did they want to re-enact their favourite TV show? Save the memory of the theme tune, in an era where TV wasn't readily repeatable? It's a banger, but I don't know, I'm not sure I would have gone out to buy it.

I think my favourite here has to be clear, despite my Christmassy mood. One song annoyed me. One I actually quite liked.

Favourite of the bunch: Dragnet

[sunlilys]

10-inch single cover of “i saw mommy kissing santa claus” by jimmy boyd, 1952.

[sealinne]

Is that a BB gun?

[queercodedcowboy]

okay FINE 5x13 was a GOOD EPISODE!!!!!!!

[im-not-thinking-confetti-cannons]

Maybe they're born with it, maybe it's

perpetual annoyance

[your1970srockstargf]

Peep at my Halloween costume this year

[dannymillerfansite]

Emmerdale 30.08.24 Part 1

Mackenzie is recovering in hospital following his run in with the bull. Mackenzie is still adamant John is responsible & Aaron gets rebuked by both Mackenzie & Charity for suggesting John might not be to blame & Aaron says he denied it when he questioned him.

Aaron updates some of the villagers while in the cafe that Mackenzie has concussion & a few cuts & bruises but otherwise is going to be fine. He clocks John & while he's waiting for his coffee. He sits with him a minute & asks again if he is responsible for the bull & he again denies it.

[shipperqueen6]

WIP Wednesday

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With me starting it's sequel I thought I'd share a little bit of the first one in the series 🩵

"Yes I do." He wasn't as oblivious as most people thought.

“Do you think Dwayne would have a problem with it?”

"With you being queer or you dating his male coworker?" Sebastian asked for clarification.

"Either, both, " Sebastian nodded towards Tammy subtly, hoping Jimmy caught on, he did. “He has no problem with Tammy being gay I have no reason to believe he would have a problem anyone else being queer. As for the Whole dating Chris thing as long as neither of you two don't hurt each other I don't believe he'd have a problem with it."

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[pnwdagnabbit]

“The Round-Up Regulators” - from top left to bottom right: Jose Chavez y Chavez; Charles Bowdre; “Dirty Steve” Stephens; Christian “CJ” Wade; Matthew Rogers; Jimmy “JJ” Montgomery

[idembroiderthat]

An embroiderini of Boyd’s precious side piece, Jimmy Tolan. Worst lookout ever, and it sure would be nice if Boyd could learn to read his tone better over the phone.

[maraskywalkers]

Jimmy shrugs again. “Trust you with my life, Boyd.” Boyd’s eyes close as he takes a deep breath. It’s maybe too honest, but he can’t help it. It might well be the truest thing he’s ever said. He ain’t ever really gone in for faith, much to his mamma’s chagrin. Never understood her unshakeable belief in God, not until he met Boyd. (quote from chapter 2 of where the pine trees grow and the world slows down by @holographiccs)

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 14 May 1953

We're back to two songs, and at least one of them has a big clunky title that makes me think of the royal coronation - I wonder if it's a deliberate coronation song? By this point, we were only a month away from Queen Elizabeth's coronation, so it could be, I suppose...

Tell Me a Story - Jimmy Boyd & Frankie Laine (peaked at No. 5)

Well, this starts with what is quite possible my least favourite thing to find in a song: a kid singing. Don't know what it is about it, but it really irritates me whenever I come across it.

It doesn't help that the kid in this song is incredibly irritating! His whole shtick is that he wants his dad to tell him a story before going to bed. It sounds like dad did say he'd tell a story, but the kid is so annoying and demanding: "You gotta give in so I'll be good". Grrr.

Worse, dad seems to have had a hard day, and we get a reference to coming home "Without ma raise in pay" and just wanting a break when his kid comes in "swinging his little axe". Which actually raises more questions than it answers - why does thiskid have an axe?! That seems like a disaster waiting to happen!

Kid is not done being annoying, and tells dad that "your memory's kinda slow". Dad, quite understandably, reacts poorly ("Stop your noisy talkin' till I've finished with ma tale") and when his kid immediately interrupts, he threatens a smack ("Once upon-" "Upon a what?" "Upon your back you'll get a swat"). This was the only part of this "comedy" song that got a laugh out of me.

But then the kid actually does get a smack, which... I don't know, I just don't need a song about it? Think what you like about corporal punishment, and smacking kids, I just don't love it in my "novelty" songs. Though if there ever was a kid who made the case for smacking children, it's this one...

The final spoken line ("Awww, come on, daddy, tell me a story, hee hee") actually viscerally sickens me. I hate it so much.

Very happy to never hear this song again.

In a Golden Coach (There's a Heart of Gold) - Billy Cotton and His Band (3)

I was right! It is a coronation song!

And it's an old-fashioned one, too. Google tells me that Billy Cotton was one of the last bandleaders of a "British dance band", a jazz-and-music-hall-inflected breed of band that was apparently popular before World War II. I guess there must have been a lot of people still into this kind of music, and the coronation is the sort of event that even older folks (especially older folks?) would have been into, enough to buy some sort of commemorative record.

I now wonder if anyone made official popular music for Charles' coronation? Somehow, I doubt it - but then again, he isn't as young and hip as Elizabeth was.

We open with a swell of brass and bells ringing, which immediately sets the scene, but in case we were wondering, we do then get a helpful spoken-word intro over some soupy Disney-lite background singers: "On a day in June, when the flowers are in bloom, that day will make history - yes, world history." I kind of dig this bit, not going to lie.

Optimistically, we learn that the "warm friendly sun will shine down on dear London town". This does not reflect reality, as a quick Google tells me that the coronation actually enjoyed a "chilly and wet day with northerly winds and highs of just 11.8C". Which is, to be fair, the most British way to become a monarch. 11 degrees in June is quite something, though, yikes!

The female voice that comes in is then operatic and very well trained, sort of from the Vera Lynn school of singing, and it's the usual meaningless nonsense you get when it's the monarchy - the Queen is beautiful and royal and lovely, and the whole world will see her and love her. Cool.

The town really reminded me of something, and only with a bit of Googling did I realise that it's another Vera Lynn song, The Homing Waltz. Which I thought was a pretty forgettable song, but look at it coming back to me now! Retroactive kudos to that song, I guess?

Prize for most interesting line goes to the final one, though: "In a golden coach there's a heart of gold / That belongs to you and me." It's a nod towards the monarch owing some sort of allegiance to the people, a representative of the common folk. It just about sums up the role that the monarch played by this point in history, framing the Queen as a sort of populist figure.

Overall, an interesting snapshot of a big event - clearly people got behind the sentiment in this song enough to send it to Number 3. Coronations don't happen often enough to give us many points for comparison, but certainly I couldn't imagine that happening with Charles' coronation. Were people just more patriotic about it, then? Was is something to do with having a young Queen? Were people just ready for a big national party, coming out of World War II and rationing and all that? Some combination of the above?

Neither of these are good songs that I am going out and recommending to you. One was clearly more interesting than the other, though. So with that...

Favourite song of the bunch: In a Golden Coach (There's a Heart of Gold)