Rankin/Bass Holiday Specials

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Date Born/Group Began: 1964 (Stavro Arrgolus)

Date Died/Group Ended: 1987 (Stavro Arrgolus)

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The Rankin/Bass 'Animagic' specials & puppets were made in Japan by stop-motion pioneer Tadahito Mochinaga (1919-1999). In many of the specials, the puppets were made to resemble the actors who did their voices. In the later ones, Santa bore a resemblance to Mickey Rooney since Rooney voiced Santa in many of these shows. But when the voice actor wasn't a celebrity (and sometimes when they were), the Japanese puppet makers took a few liberties. In "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (1970), the 'young Santa' puppet looked suspiciously like country singer Glen Campbell, who was quite popular at the time. "Year Without a Santa Claus" is a classic example of this sort of thing going on. The Heat Miser puppet seemed to be inspired by Jackie Gleason and Snow Miser was a dead ringer for Danny Kaye, who must have noticed and voiced a puppet character himself in the Rankin/Bass Easter special, "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". (Stavro Arrgolus)

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The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) (TV) (Stavro Arrgolus)

Rankin/Bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Stavro Arrgolus)


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Played on 11 shows:
	01-05-19, #MMS-230	12-06-14, #ISGD-14-66
	12-24-17, #MMS-223	12-03-14, #MMS-190
	12-16-17, #MMS-221	12-09-12, #MMS-160
	12-04-16, #MMS-206	01-06-08, #MMS-107
	03-26-16, #16-13	12-24-05, #MMS-10
	04-04-15, #15-14
	= Show you can listen to online

	Songs
	Father Time's Song
	First Toymaker to the King
	Heat Miser - (with ' Year Without A Santa Claus, The')
	Put One Foot In Front Of The Other
	Snow Miser - (with ' Year Without A Santa Claus, The')
	The Easter Bunny Is Comin' To Town - (with 'Fred Astaire')

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