The Man with All the Toys
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| "The Man with All the Toys" | ||||
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| File:The Man with All the Toys cover.jpg | ||||
| Single by The Beach Boys | ||||
| from the album The Beach Boys' Christmas Album | ||||
| B-side | "Blue Christmas" | |||
| Released | November 9, 1964 [1] | |||
| Format | Vinyl | |||
| Recorded | June 25, 1964 [2] | |||
| Genre | Rock, Christmas | |||
| Length | 1:32 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Brian Wilson Mike Love |
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| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson | |||
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"The Man with All the Toys" is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album The Beach Boys' Christmas Album. As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by Billboard in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick".
Wilson re-recorded this song for his 2005 Christmas album, What I Really Want for Christmas.
Performers
- Brian Wilson: lead vocals, piano
- Mike Love: lead vocals
- Carl Wilson: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, harmony vocals
- Alan Jardine: bass guitar, harmony vocals
- Dennis Wilson: drums, harmony vocals
References
- ↑ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 72
- ↑ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 58
