Christmas Countdown - Day 21 - "The Only Thing I Want for Christmas (Is Just to Keep the things That I've Got)"

Christmas is approaching fast as we're already up to Day 21 of our Countdown as we run into our old pal Eddie Cantor!

Here's Eddie's recording of "The Only Thing I Want for Christmas (Is Just to Keep the things That I've Got)" for Columbia in 1939:

A nice message and a rare chance to hear Eddie sing a "straight" song!

And how much do I love the intro with the A.P. reporter?

Eddie tells reporter Ed Sullivan how it is!

This song did get a couple of other recordings, including this relatively late one from the De John Sisters on Epic in 1955:

I say this sort of thing a lot, but this sounds exactly like you would expect a record from sister act in 1955 to sound!