80's Rap: Run DMC (with Aerosmith) "Walk This Way"

This one was actually pretty cool, and this song got a lot of young whuite kids stocked on rap music.  This was a HUGE hit on MTV, back when they played music 24 hours a day.  

80's Rap: The Fat Boys (with The Beach Boys) "Wipeout"

Way back ni the olden days of the 1980's, when your parents and me were teenagers, rap music was just evolving, and starting to make it ont MTV.  It was a lot different in those early days...

80's Rap: Proof that Will Smith, The Fresh Prince, was always a dork

Straight outta Disneyland...

Merry Christmas... Partridge Family Christmas medeley

Merry Christmas Katherine and Ethan.

The Christmas spirit...

Ah... Bad Santa, starring Billy Bob Thorton.  Nothing reminds me of Christmas as a kid like this movie.  Heh, heh, heh.

RUN DMC- "Christmas in Hollis Queens"

One of the first rap groups to hit it big, with the first hip hop Christmas song to get popular.  From 1987, when rap music was still super controversial.  

Brian Setzer Orchestra- "Jingle Bells"

This is the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Brian is the guy on guitar, and first became known leading The Stray Cats, a rockabilly revival band, back in the early 1980's.  Here's Brian with his bigger band, in the 1990's, playing a swinging version of "Jingle Bells."  Did you know Grandpa Tom played the clarinet and saxophone when he was young?  He was pretty good, and a fan of big band/swing music, and he actually liked this band when I showed them to him.