DENNIS RIORDAN: Mr. Bass Player and the guy who can fix everything!

I love classic Holiday films!

They just don't know how to make Christmas films anymore! I do LOVE to watch the classics, in fact, I have been watching them my entire life and watched IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE before it became the most watched film of all-time. I even wrote Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart when I was very young and they sent autographs. I was on WGN MORNING NEWS with ZU ZU a few years back and my Mom was with her last night at a IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE screening. I have many favorite Holiday films including MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, THE BISHOP'S WIFE and HOLIDAY AFFAIR. Just like RANKIN/BASS specials, it would not be Christmas without annual viewings of these!

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This 2006 DVD release combined with the 1994 huge video box set, make up a wonderful WHITE CHRISTMAS collection! I have the film on right now and always love watching it! Michael Curtiz directed it. We watched another classic Curtiz film last night...KING CREOLE with Elvis Presley (His finest film). Curtiz's best known film is CASABLANCA. The DVD release above was available at STARBUCKS and has a beautifully designed TCM Christmas film guide in it!

This book came with the 1994 Deluxe video box set! A beautiful huge box!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

c. 2001 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

BURL IVES: Sam The Snowman

Burl wrote the foreword to THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO shortly before he passed away.

The Late, Great TONY PETERS

RANKIN/BASS Designer in the early days of RANKIN/BASS. He designed RANKIN/BASS' RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER

Holiday gifts from my friend Gary Matheson!

My pal Gary sent along these wonderful CD sets of hard to find music! We are both big fans of Ross Bagdasarian's LIBERTY RECORDS recordings! We also enjoy the wonderful music from the Jay Ward shows! These are pretty comprehensive! Bagdasarian's recordings fill up two discs!

RANKIN/BASS Weekend Special before Christmas!

To celebrate THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY merchandise that was released this year and some of it is still available at http://www.timeandspacetoys.com/ we are offering a copy of RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK II on DVD with any book purchase this weekend! There is still enough time for your package to go out Monday morning PRIORITY MAIL for Christmas! I just rewatched THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK II and it is beautiful quality sound/picture! GREER GARSON once again narrates and Arthur Rankin's pal Zero Mostel (MARCO) appears. This is the only RANKIN/BASS special to be nominated for an EMMY.

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ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.

We have one book left in-stock of THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO. This one will come with the RANKIN/BASS Collector's CD with all the Holiday hits and RARE Tracks PLUS a signed set of MISER BROS Cards for $55 shipped to the first person that e-mails Rickgoldsc@aol.com

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R/B T Shirts

We do have some shirts in-stock beyond the pre-order ones...I have one small, one Medium, about 4 Large and about 8 XL. Order soon if you would like for Christmas! They ship PRIORITY MAIL and are $26 shipped PAYPAL Rickgoldsc@aol.com
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DONNER as he appears today in ANIMAGIC!

Rick and Maury talking RANKIN/BASS songs a few years back
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Sara having a ball at the OHIO CON RANKIN/BASS Event at the TIME AND SPACE TOYS booth!

Kevin Kriess www.timeandspacetoys.com and Rick at the RANKIN/BASS BROOKFIELD ZOO Event a few years back in Brookfield, IL
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Maury Laws and his son John

Last Holiday season on THE ROE CONN SHOW with Kevin Matthews on WLS RADIO in Chicago

ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. and JULES BASS

Artwork by Paul Coker, Jr.
c. 2001 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

Chuck Jones' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

The Great BORIS KARLOFF who also appeared in RANKIN/BASS' MAD MONSTER PARTY and THE DAYDREAMER

THE STARVING ARTISTS

www.myspace.com/rgoldschmidt

Design by Bob Plant (FOREVER FUN)

I love this Christmasy time of year!

AND I love this T-Shirt! Wes Garlatz did a GREAT job at cleaning up the logo and sizing it up to these HANES 100% cotton tagless T-shirts! The shirts do run big...I am 6' 3" and sometimes I have to wear an XL for the length BUT the LARGE fits me perfect and almost feels like a fitted shirt. We do have some requests to fill first and then I will make available whatever sizes are left in this first batch for the Holidays! The shirt is $20 + $6 shipping PRIORITY MAIL.

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I'm Cute!

Frazier Thomas, Garfield Goose and Geronimo the monkey
from my Chicago Kid's TV book project

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There are some pretty cool Christmas LPs and RANKIN/BASS sand castles at this blog

www.ernienotbert.blogspot.com

THE BEACH BOYS

c. 1966 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

I love the Beach Boy's Christmas songs!

My Sister Stacey and I enjoying a Christmas from the days of old...

One of my all-time favorites and designer of many RANKIN/BASS shows!

I was listening to THE DAYDREAMER soundtrack again tonight and absolutely love it! I really liked hearing MAURY LAWS talk about the early days of RANKIN/BASS again. I forgot he mentioned he did the music for the GENERAL ELECTRIC commercials in 1962 and 1963. These were not RANKIN/BASS animated commercials BUT they were Holiday commercials with the household products and there were three commercials with 6 minutes of music total. Very interesting stuff!
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TOPPER or WADDLES?

I have never seen RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN when the Penguin wasn't named TOPPER. I also have Arthur Rankin's original shooting script and he is named TOPPER in it BUT based on the amount of e-mails I have received over the years...I do believe they over dubbed the name WADDLES for a few years. It may have been some sort of legal issue with the name TOPPER, which was also the name of a very famous radio, film and TV character. I know Leo G. Carroll played him in one of those versions. Whatever the reason, I am glad it is now back to the original.

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RANKIN/BASS' FROSTY THE SNOWMAN Belly Whopping with Karen

c. 1969 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

A few pages from the Deluxe Edition of THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO

WALT DISNEY with ROY DISNEY

ROY DISNEY passes at age 79

We were sorry to hear about Roy Disney's passing. Apparently he had a long bout with stomach cancer.

ATLANTA Radio

will air Friday at 8pm Eastern and again Sunday at Noon Eastern time

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DEREK YANIGER stickers

My friend DEREK has an assortment of very cool stickers at www.posterpop.com

I am doing a phoner radio interview tomorrow morning at 11am Central time with Jon Waterhouse, who has a show based out of Atlanta called "The Pop Culture King Show." It airs weekly on AM 1690 The Voice of the Arts http://www.1690wmlb.com/

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RANKIN/BASS T-Shirts arrive this week!

It is as if RANKIN/BASS' Santa Claus delivered them right on time! Looking forward to wearing mine! The T-Shirts will arrive here in the next day or so. They are WHITE T-Shirts of high quality with the classic logo as seen above. The people that e-mailed to reserve one earlier take Priority...this first shipment will be LIMITED. The shirt is $20 and PRIORITY MAIL Shipping is $6. We may be able to fit two shirts in a FLAT RATE Envelope if you decide to order a pair. Looks like it will be a Holly, Jolly Christmas after all!

Tonight only!

$65 shipped for the book and DVD set! The DVD contains the 1964 broadcast complete with original ending and RANKIN/BASS ANIMAGIC commercials! This may be the last batch of books we have left before Christmas...so order tonight! E-mail Rickgoldsc@aol.com

RUDOLPH Package

We have this package for $75 + $10 shipping! Sure to make a RANKIN/BASS RUDOLPH fan happy!

Pick up the MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL book soon....stock is low on it!

RANKIN/BASS' THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF DANNY KAYE: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

c. 1972 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

From the book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO available here!
c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

WALGREENS has these again this Holiday season!

RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. directs the vocal cast of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER with BERNARD COWAN to his left as Supervisor. JULE BASS stands behind Arthur with a stop watch and BILL GILES to Arthur's Right engineered the session in Canada. That is me peaking in the door (Just kidding :))

c. 1964 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

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PAUL FREES: RANKIN/BASS voice actor

the late Paul Frees was a very close friend with Arthur Rankin and he appeared in most of the RANKIN/BASS specials, doing many voices in each special including FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (Santa Claus, Traffic Cop, Ticket booth operator, etc) and SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN (BURGERMEISTER MEISTERBURGER, Grimsley, etc.).

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ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. directs an ANIMAGIC set

It's a Baby, Baby Zingle!

It is nice to think TIKI in December!

There are some cool things for Holiday shopping at www.shagmart.com

WINTER WARLOCK

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

I am from Lawrenceville, Il. and Santa Claus Land, now Holiday World, is only about 90 minutes from hometown. The Giant Santa that greeted you at the front of the park is now living on the highway on your way to Evansville, In. at a truck stop. the owners of the truck stop bought him to keep him from being destroyed. This poster brought back a lot of memories. I believe you can still send mail through Santa Claus, in. to get their stamp on your Christmas cards.
Lesley Lawson

You asked for it!

http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/fb_global_form.php This is the CBS FEEDBACK form! You can let them know what you think of the network putting nasty words in the mouth of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN. You can also ask them, why they have not featured a MAKING OF RUDOLPH documentary for such an important show to their network? Also, why they show such a poor quality print of RUDOLPH with many, many edits, chopped up songs and music warbling. They may not even be aware of how many people notice these things. I know I have received hundreds of emails.

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