Reprinted from the liner notes to the song-poem compilation CD, The American Song-Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?

Anyone remotely famous, whether or not singing was previously on their resume, has made a Christmas album — from Bing Crosby to RuPaul. (She called hers Ho Ho Ho.) In the giving tradition of the […]

Talent Incorporated, 17 Longwood Rd., Quincy MA 02169
then: East Coast Record Productions, 299 Newport Ave., Wollaston MA 02170; 617-328-5057
currently: New World Publishing, 129 Pleasant St., Weymouth MA 02190; 781-331-8848

In running his Halmark label as a perverse parody of a legitimate record company, Ted Rosen went beyond the constrained thinking of other song-poem entrepreneurs. Lesser minds […]