And here is another classic Christmas bit, performed by Clellan Card as Axel. This is an audio recording of classic Christmas poem that Axel would read on the air every year. It also features Mary Davies as Carmen the Nurse. Unfortunately no actual video survives. This recording was sold for many years on a 45 […]
This is an advertisement for a special program that aired on December 14, 1968. Dave Lee, along with Casey and Roundhouse, hosted a showing of The Night Before Christmas. The program is described as a “cartoon strip.” It’s not clear exactly what was. According to the listings in TV Digest for this day. the program […]
This is a bit of a holiday tradition for kids that grew up in Minnesota. Clellan Card’s annual performance of A Night Before Christmas!
In 1964, WCCO-TV issued a seven-inch record that featured Axel’s famous version of “The Night Before Christmas” on one side, and “Close Call for Santa” starring Clancy the Cop and Willie Ketchem on the other. Both sides were produced by Allan Lotsberg (Willie Ketchem), who also wrote the Clancy & Willie story. Clellan Card […]
Item from Northrup King Company Records, Minnesota Historical Society; photographed by Rebecca Pavlenko. The Night Before Christmas This is a transcription of Clellan Card’s 1938 parody of the famous poem, “The Night Before Christmas.” It’s likely that this was the first time that Clellan performed it publicly, and his recitation of it became an annual […]
The Night Before Christmas A Parody Done in Swedish Dialect by Clellan Card on the Northrup, King & Co’s. Christmas Program December 23, 1938 It vas de night before Xmas, ven all tru de place vere I vas staying Dere vasn’t nobody making no noise, not eefen som mouses except my brudder-in-law and he […]