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Mr. Jingeling was created in 1956 by Frank Jacobi, head of a Chicago advertising agency to promote the toys sold at Halle's Department Store in Cleveland. This was originally planned as a one-time promotion for the 1956 holiday season, but was immediately popular and became an annual tradition.
Generations of holiday shoppers visited the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus every Christmas season until it closed in 1994. The decorated window displays were a cherished tradition ...
"Downtown" is a song written and produced by English composer Tony Hatch. Its lyrics speak of going to spend time in an urban downtown as a means of escape from everyday life. The 1964 version recorded by British singer Petula Clark became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart.
Thank Tinseltown. Film classics like "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), "A Christmas Story" (1983, set in 1940), and more recent holiday movie fare like "Elf" (2003), on heavy rotation keep ...
Pallan was also a singer who cut several records in the 1950s. In 2014 on his 7th year death anniversary, his recording of the song "Land of Dreams" was published on YouTube. [1] He had a style that was similar to that of Bing Crosby. He had a gift for dialects and was an exceptional joke teller. Pallan and his wife Agnes had three daughters ...
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
Also, inside the store, was "Santa's Secret Shop". Off-limits to the adults, children entered an enclosed mini shopping area. All of this "spirit of Christmas" started at the street level with animated window displays such as angels playing violins in the windows. The Rich's department store chain was sold to Federated Department Stores in 1975
The song is associated with Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (The famine-relief song famously kept “Last Christmas” from reaching No. 1.) George sings on both records. Why ...