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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E-mail Rickgoldsc@aol.com

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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