Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, Harry Gibson (Viper's Nest)

This album is from 1994, but there's no indication when this stuff was recorded, apart from sometime during the age of stereo (checked it with headphones), although I detect drum machine on some of these tunes. UPDATE: It was originally put out in 1974, according to the Wikipedia entry, so 1994 is the CD release. Harry's been in the biz since the 1930s, according to the liner notes, and is best known for "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine," a Dr. Demento staple. The good doc also plays his "I Wish My Mother-in-law Don't Visit Us This Christmas," which is here. The rest is jazz and boogie-woogie versions of standards, of which the best items are "Twas the Night Before Christmas Boogie," in which he does a Lord Buckley on the famous holiday poem, and the follow-up, "Twas the Day After Christmas Boogie." Inexplicably, he also throws in a bicentennial tribute, "That's the Spirit," which makes sense now that we know the correct date this was released. Harry passed on in 1991.