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01 - K Mart jingle 02 - I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas – Billy Vaughn (1958) 03 - Happy Holiday – Eddie Dunstedter (1963) 04 - March of the Toys/Toyland Medley – Andre Kostelanetz (1959) 05 - The Christmas Waltz – Ronnie Aldrich (1964) 06 - Jingle Bells – Mantovani Orchestra (1963) 07 - Will Security please report to Section 3 08 - I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Jackie Gleason Orchestra (1969) 09 - Silver Bells – The Living Strings (1963) 10 - Snowbound - Wayne King Orchestra (1963) 11 - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! - Ferrante & Teicher (1962) 12 - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops (1959) 13 - Jingo Jango - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra (1963) 14 - Attention please: if you plan to pay with your purchase with a personal check… 15 - Jingle Bell Bossa Nova - Eddie Dunstedter (1965) 16 - Pine Cones & Holly Berries/It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas –The Living Strings(1963) 17 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/March Of The Toys/Rudolph Medley – The Twenty-Two Best Loved Christmas Piano Concertos (1959) 18 - Sleigh Ride – Hugo Winterhalter (1959) 19 - I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas – Frank Chacksfield (1959) 20 - There is no smoking allowed on the sales floor, only in the Snack Bar... 21 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – George Melachrino & His Strings (1959) 22- Walking In A Winter Wonderland – The Three Suns (1961) 23 - Jingle Bells – Domenico Savino & His Orchestra (1959) 24 - Christmas Bells – Mantovani Orchestra (1963) 25 - Frosty the Snowman – John Klein (1959) 26 - Christmas Candy - Eddie Dunstedter (1965) 27 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Hollyridge Strings (1965) 28 - Snow In Hawaii - The Waikikis (1973) 29 - Snowfall – Tex Beneke (1965) 30 - K Mart jingle 31 - Jingle Bell Rock – Pete Fountain (1967) 32 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Here Comes Santa Claus – Liberace (1952) 33 - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) – ?Piano And Orchestra 34 - It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Andre Kostelanetz (1972) 35 - Parade Of The Wooden (Tin) Soldiers – Living Voices (1962) 36 - All Around The Christmas Tree - John Klein (1964) 37 - Will Security please report to Section 10... 38 - I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Lawrence Welk (1961) 39 - Walking In A Winter Wonderland – Hollyridge Strings (1963) 40 - Under The Christmas Mistletoe - Dick Leibert (1963) 41 - Sleigh Ride – Tex Beneke (1965) 42 - Sleigh Ride – Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops (1959) 43 - Attention please: if you plan to pay with your purchase with a personal check… 44 - Ring, Christmas Bells (Ukrainian Bell Carol) – Eddie Dunstedter (1963) 45 - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - The Wayne King Orchestra 46 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – The Living Strings (1963) 47 - Happy Holiday – Jackie Gleason Orchestra (1956) 48 - Toy Parade - Bert Kaempfert (1963) 49 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – The Three Suns (1959) 50 - I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas – Hollyridge Strings (1963) 51 - There is no smoking allowed on the sales floor, only in the Snack Bar… 52 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Lawrence Welk (1956) 53 - I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Eddie Dunstedter (1965) 54 - March Of The Wooden (Tin) Soldiers – ?Orchestra 55 - Silver Bells – Al Hirt (1965) 56 - I’ll be Home For Christmas – Hollyridge Strings (1963) 57 - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) – Wayne King & His Orchestra (1963)

A couple shots of @bandofdad last Friday in a backyard party!

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D.A.D. is playing this Friday 12/3 in Panorama city. Check us out @bandofdad!!!

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In the studio today.

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Check out my demos. I just made these for my band to listen to. No vocals yet but I'm really happy with the way the sounds came out. Everything was recorded live overdubs with no mixing.

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Allen Paulino

Listening to the recent Real Kids records from Crypt brought back such a flood of memories from my time spent with the crazy, irrepressible, ultimately lovable (sometimes infuriating) person named Allen Alpo Paulino. No one knows much about that time period except for me, David and Dana. We were an island unto ourselves in the Boston scene. We all worked at Rounder records in Cambridge. David and Dana and Allen worked in the warehouse, and I worked upstairs in the computer department. Rounder was a crazy place, even though it was a folkie label. JJ Rassler worked upstairs with me as did Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen (later of Yep Roc label fame). We listened to music all day and were generally pretty unruly, undisciplined types who drank a lot (at least not at work, most of us anyway).

Down in the warehouse all kinds of weird shit was going on. Dana and David would keep me abreast of all the delinquent activities, people shitting in bathroom sinks etc. One day we had a new recruit to the warehouse staff- Allen Paulino. I don’t know how he ended up there. Probably through Howie Ferguson or maybe JJ Rassler. Alpo was in rough shape but he was doing the best he could to fight his demons, which were many…and not just alcohol related. I don’t remember how I personally met Alpo. But we worked together for a couple months and he came out to see us play at Bunratty’s. We had a woman named Dina Perleman playing bass with us. She was our first bassist. Allen watched the show and said something to the effect that we could use a better bass player and that he would be willing to play with us. So we unceremoniously booted Dina out. Cruel, but we wanted to get better, and we had A LOT of improving to do at that point. We were all just beginning to play instruments, let alone be playing out in clubs in a competitive Boston scene. But we were playing primarily original songs and Alpo liked what he heard.

So we started practicing together. We would ride down to our practice space from Central Square in Cambridge down to the south end of Boston near South Station. On the way down Alpo would want us to stop at the liquor stores to pick up some “nips”, little bottles of vodka usually. During the trips to the space and to shows we would hear so many stories about the Real Kids. I hate to say I did not know anything about the band at at that time- literally nothing. Their records were hard to find, no internet googling, 1977 was ancient history in 1989. Although I knew a lot about music from earlier periods. I was still pretty young and had been in college with no exposure to most things important ( except literature).

When we played with Allen we became much more cohesive as a unit. He taught us to be a band. He had experience and great taste, and always played the right notes- and he swung like a bastard. Full forward propulsion. None of that “on the beat” shit that I hate.

I will never forget going to his family house on the north shore (Peabody, I think) and seeing where he grew up. It was so amazing to me. And learning about his mom naming the Nervous Eaters because they ate so fast at the dinner table. And learning about Jonathan Richman’s dastardly deeds as a homewrecker. And all the things he found in the trash (the family business was trash collecting. We were big trash pickers too.) Fucking endless great stories that blew my mind.

Allen not only was in our band he lived with us for a period of time. He loved us like another brother. We tried to help him, but it was too much too take on. He lived in our basement and he had a friend that would sneak nips and drugs in pizza boxes and deliver them to him downstairs. I was a very naive person and thought he could cure himself if he had people who cared for him. It did not work. He went from bad to worse and we finally had to split ways. It was very sad and we were hurt and he was hurt also. I remember after he left he listened to us do a radio broadcast with Merle Allin who replaced him and he said something like “that guy isn’t right for you” and he was right (soundwise).

I will always look back fondly listening to music in our little living room in Allston. We would listen to Love “Forever Changes” and Modern Lovers “Hospital”. He would steal David’s prescription cold medicine and chug it. We would laugh incessantly at all that was ridiculous around us. He could be a real charmer. Then he could be the darkest demon you ever met. But I will never speak badly of him because I love him to this day, and am very happy he had a few years of peace in his life toward the end.

Alpo was a rock star in Boston. He was very brave to play music with us. Everyone thought he was crazy to play with us because his crowd thought we were terrible. They would tell him that right in front of us at shows we played. Often times we were terrible. But Alpo shared the same love of crazy fucked up rock n roll and he treasured originality. And he saw that in us. We were from different worlds but he related to us. He knew we were raw and just beginning our journey but he was never condescending. His playing with us took me to another level of creativity at that time. Thank you Alpo- and long live the Real Kids!

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Great Story from a Great Band!

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I added some new toy options to my local toy store

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I luv obvious plant!!!

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Cy Twombly.

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I like this guy Cy.

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What Donald Trump said was a hoax is that bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., can control the climate of the earth. And the reality is that this climate change agenda that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to continue to expand is killing jobs in this country.

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