Jimmy Boyd

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  • tomcat333 on 2007-10-08 14:30:23.123:
    I looked up Jimmy Boyd in your search engine with NO RESULTS. Hope you can get some albums of this singer. Pandora.com has him. Hope you can get him also. Thanks again for your music. Al Jarvis had a five-hour talk show every day on KLAC-TV with a few regulars on it, including Betty White, called Make-Believe Ballroom. Jarvis immediately announced Jimmy Boyd would be a regular on the show. Several appearances singing and doing comedy skits on the Frank Sinatra Show on CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and the song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," recorded when he was 12 years and 11 months old. Even in those days of limited media compared to today, it became a record industry phenomenon selling over two and a half million records in its first weeks release. Jimmy's name became an international household word, he skyrocketed to the status of a major Star. Columbia Record execs were baffled. They had already presented Jimmy with two gold records. (In the days before Grammys, Gold Records were the Grammys, and they were actually real gold
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