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1970 NFL Miami Dolphins Sing Holiday Halftime Record
Where to start with this? How about here, the following, because I can't link to it, is a synopsis from a recent article over at Deadline.com dated December 16, 2018
The Holiday Halftime records were the brainchild of a New York native named Mike Tatich, who made his living working for advertising conglomerate BBDO. His specialty was producing a particular style of record commercial that was popular in the '60s and '70s, the ones featuring records with names like[Beloved Singer] Sings The Classics! and track listings scrolling up the screen in big yellow letters. "He did Tony Bennett, he did Johnny Mathis, all those commercials were his," Mike's adult son, also named Mike, told me.
.... the NFL was eager to throw its weight behind his father's plan. The 1970 season was the first to follow the official merger of the AFL and NFL (the merger was announced in 1966, but 1970 was the first time the two leagues combined regular-season schedules) and Tatich's idea was an easy way to drum up publicity for the newly whole league.
"The NFL embraced the whole idea, and that made it easy to get in contact with every team. I think the NFL actually told every team they had to do it," says Tatich Jr. "I think the NFL, at the time, was looking for PR. Because, literally, no money was paid [by Tatich] to the NFL, which probably wouldn't fly today."
Tatich did score one major coup, though: getting the albums plugged on the Ed Sullivan Show. An episode of the show that aired on December 6, 1970, featured 12 players from the Jets, Giants, and Raiders—Fred Dryer, Gene Upshaw, Don Maynard, and Jim Otto were among them—singing "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" at a competence level that I would describe as "not entirely humiliating." They all wore suits and generally looked like they'd rather be somewhere else, and Sullivan razzed them a bit when the performance was over.
Tracklist
A1 Deck The Halls
A2 Winter Wonderland
A3 All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
A4 We Wish You A Merry Christmas
B1 A Tropical Winter
B2 Frosty The Snowman
B3 Let It Snow
B4 Jingle Bells
B5 Auld Lang Syne
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