Axel’s Night Before Christmas – 1953

Here is a transcript from 1953 of The Night Before Christmas by Clellan Card, known to all of us as Axel on Channel 4.     This was apparently sent by Card to listeners of WCCO.   Compare this to the version published in 1938, and what was recorded in 1964

Here is the 1964 recording

Thanks to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting for this image