78 RPM - Mad Milo - Elvis For Xmas / Happy New Year - Million $ - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Mad Milo
Label:	Million $
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	M$ 20018-78
Date:	Dec 1956
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$28
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$28

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Mad Milo	Elvis For Xmas	Getz, Speriglio	Rate
B	Roy Tan And The Combo	Happy New Year	Johnnie Getz	Rate

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rhythmdog ● 3rd Jun 2023		The sampled songs are from 1956, so it would make sense for this to be a December 1956 effort. Only a few months after "The Flying Saucer"...



Break-In Master 10th May 2021		Bit of an update: 1. I recently counted all my break-ins and counting each individual track but counting 2 and 3 parters as one track, my new total is just over 1200. 2. The only reference I hear on this record for chickens is that Milo calls s few of the women, chicks. This slang for "girl" or "woman" goes back at least 30 years before this record was made. Back then, they were called, chickens and a guy that was always chasing after them was call a chicken inspector. Eventually, the term, "chicken" was shortened to, "Chick". Other than that, I see no other references here to a chicken or pigeon. 3. The other Mad Milo record was on Combo and, although I don't have my master list in front of me, I'm pretty sure it was called, A Date With Elvis. 4. My neighbor has the 45 of Elvis For Xmas and tells me it's a $50 record. I paid that much for my 78 copy about 10 years ago. 5. At the moment, I know of at LEAST a dozen covers of Mr. Jaw, at least one by Dickie's son, Jon (whose book on his dad I helped write) but, in most cases, different records are used. In one case the same records are used but different questions posed. An interesting variation is where the break-in has nothing at all to do with Jaws but uses the exact same record clips in the exact same order!!



Break-In Master 30th Nov 2017		Actually, the two sides DO have authorial credits in common.



Break-In Master 24th Jan 2017		I'm told Mad Milo has another break-in that's even harder to find, on Combo Records. I've been collecting break-ins since 1969/1970 and have not even seen a picture of it!! Off the top of my head, I don't recall the title, but it's also about Elvis. I've got at least 600 break-ins, now and, as you've said, not all of them are funny. Some are downright stupid and don't make any sense! And those aren't even the amateur ones!! I've heard and have some home-made tapes people have made that are better! Then there are some that are VERY funny!! What's really kinda strange is that there are actually cover versions of certain break-ins! In some cases, more than one version!! "Flying Saucer" has at least 4 covers; "The Trial" by Herb B. Lou & The Legal Eagles was covered (Herb B. Lou being Herb Alpert and Lou Adler), there's at least 3 different covers of, "Mr. Jaws", one that I actually saw performed live at a furries convention right here in my town!! (No, I'm not a furry, I just happened to stumble across the video of it on YouTube about 2 years ago!)



slholzer 3rd Apr 2016		Review Break-In Master would perhaps be a better person to review Side A of this disc. The "break in", if you aren't familiar, is a kind of shtick, mostly practiced by disc jockeys, which it would appear Mad Milo is, or aspires to be. The disc jockey-narrator throws out straight lines and then delivers punch lines/answers in the form of snippets from popular recordings. Perhaps the best known examples were on Luniverse. In this case, the disc jockey purports to interview people on the subject of wanting Elvis Presley for Christmas. One of the interviewees is apparently a chicken or possibly a pigeon. When done well, break-ins can be moderately clever, but in my experience they're rarely very funny. I think you can decide for yourself if Side A is worth sampling. Side B is no way related to Side A. The combo appears to include a bongo drummer, who is the main musician heard, playing a hipster style beat rather than any discernible Latin beat. A small group of not particularly sophisticated male vocalists sing a reasonably pleasant New Year song that, as Break-In Master correctly states, has a more than passing resemblance to Come On Get Happy, both melodically and rhythmically. Of course, it substantially pre-dates the Partridge Family. If you liked the Beatles' "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time", you'll probably like this, too. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Break-In Master 26th Dec 2015		I think Roy Tan is the same person as Ray Tan or Tann.



BigBadBluesMan 21st Dec 2015



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Break-In Master 28th Dec 2013		A-side is a very hard to find break-in. B-side sounds INCREDIBLY similar to The Partridge Family theme song, "Come On Get Happy".

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