It vas a black and vhite vorld back den...
As it happens, I was preparing to write a short open thread type post about a guy who wrote and performed a funny PNW Christmas song.
When I did my little bit of research on this character, I was surprised to learn that he had been born in Everett, WA in 1925 to Norwegian, of course, parents, who parents were Norwegian immigrants.
This town used to be kind of Norski/Native central. That's still here, but less so.
Anyhow, this funny guy was Stan Boreson. He used to do a kid's live TV show that sibs and I watched pretty faithfully. There were several of these TV shows in those days. I think we put up with his jokes and songs to get to the cartoon. There was always a cartoon tucked into kid's TV shows, the prize in the box of grownup's attempts to entertain children.
Stan was a Seattle fixture. The kind of guy with a low level public persona. You knew who he was if you saw him around Seattle.
He did a whole Christmas album, but this song is the one I always think of around Christmas.
When I did my little bit of research on this character, I was surprised to learn that he had been born in Everett, WA in 1925 to Norwegian, of course, parents, who parents were Norwegian immigrants.
This town used to be kind of Norski/Native central. That's still here, but less so.
Anyhow, this funny guy was Stan Boreson. He used to do a kid's live TV show that sibs and I watched pretty faithfully. There were several of these TV shows in those days. I think we put up with his jokes and songs to get to the cartoon. There was always a cartoon tucked into kid's TV shows, the prize in the box of grownup's attempts to entertain children.
Stan was a Seattle fixture. The kind of guy with a low level public persona. You knew who he was if you saw him around Seattle.
He did a whole Christmas album, but this song is the one I always think of around Christmas.
Musician, recording artist, humorist, and pioneering '50s kiddie-TV show star -- Stan Boreson was Everett's king of Scandinavian humor. He has brought joy to generations in his native Northwest, across America, and around the globe. In his six decades of recording and performing, Boreson became a regional icon, an American treasure via sales of his 15 albums and a half-dozen appearances on Garrison Keillor's radio show A Prairie Home Companion, and an in-demand act who once accepted a direct concert request by King Olav of Norway, and later in 2005, was further honored by Norway's King Harald V with the St. Olav Medal of Honor -- one step shy of full knighthood....
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