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...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...gettin' so fancy with tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lizzie's Return | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Making Their Ears Twitch | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...Lord, I'm gettin' sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Fold | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...Gettin' In The Swing Of It Blues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Fold | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

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