#the happy reindeer

[nyandela-catalogue]

Mark… bbgurl, talk autistically to me about anything you want 🥰

*iiiiiiiinhaaaaales*

“The Singing Reindeer”, also known as “The Happy Reindeer”, or “Dancer, Prancer, and Nervous”, was an Alvin & The Chipmunks-inspired group created by Russ Regan(Harold Rustigan) and Robert Plaisted(Bobby Please), signed by Capitol Records, to compete with said Chipmunks in the late 50s/very early 60s.

Obviously, The Chipmunks won over the majority of the competition, but even with the few songs The Singing Reindeer released (“The Happy Reindeer”, “Dancer’s Waltz”, “I Wanna Be An Easter Bunny”, “The Happy Birthday Song”), we still think they are a worthy competitor.

There was a vinyl released of “Instrumental Clips/Voice Tracks” that I want to get my mitts on since it seems to be the hardest to find. On the A side, there are voice tracks titled “Weather”, “Time”, “Shopping Days”, and “Merry Christmas”, and on the B side is where the instrumental clips are (from what I’ve seen it’s from “The Happy Reindeer”). If anyone reading this is selling a copy of this particular vinyl, we will happily buy it from you 🥺

Despite the fact that The Singing Reindeer have their own songs and are quite different than their main competitor, the majority of their legacy is being called a copy or a knockoff of The Chipmunks.

We got into The Singing Reindeer because of the fact that “The Walten Files” used “The Happy Birthday Song” as part of their OST, and it seems to be how a lot of people in the present day have come to learn of their existence. I think that’s really cool and also important, since it ensures that another bit of old music doesn’t get lost to time.

We currently own the vinyl for “I Wanna Be An Easter Bunny”/“The Happy Birthday Song”, but we hope to one day own a copy of each of the vinyls they released.

Here are videos of the A and B side of the vinyls that we recorded:

“I Wanna Be An Easter Bunny”:

“The Happy Birthday Song”:

ok i think thats all the ramble i can muster aidbwind thanks for reading <3

-Mark📕

[hellsitegenetics]

Submitting at 11:30 at night on Valentine's lol, I'm late. But I must profess my love for the whole cervidae family, but especially my funky little favorite animal: the tufted deer. What more could you want in an animal? He's got fangs, he's got antlers, he smol, and he blue. They are perfection incarnate and I love them forever.

Muntjacs are also good, they're even smoller and orange. But they're missing that cute little tuft so they get second place. (I still adore them and have had one lick my hand before)

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Always Bring A Flashlight

“This delivery,” I said, trying to hold my feet stable on the uneven ground, “Would have been a great use for the hovercycle.”

“Yes it would,” Blip agreed. She pushed the hoversled along with me, having just as much trouble with the criss-crossing tree roots that made up what passed for a road here. Her clothes for today were the type that fit closely and displayed muscle, leaving her natural frills as the only things waving in the breeze. Or maybe they were waving with frustration.

Normally she and Blop would have done a delivery together, but he’d sprained his shoulder trying one of Wio’s impossible puzzleboxes. He knew full well those were meant for people with tentacles instead of arms. Now he was recuperating on the ship, while we pushed a sled full of packages over some very treacherous footing. No, I wasn’t bitter about that.

“Have we tried hooking the bike up to a sled before?” I asked, stepping over a python-sized root and walking down one the size of a playground slide. “I know it would take some quick work on the brakes to keep it from crashing into anything, and you’d need somebody to ride along and steer, but it seems doable.”

Paint piped up from where she was riding on the front of the sled. “Oh, like when we did that one rush delivery with you running and pulling it!”

I chuckled, slipping just a little. “Yep, like when I was a sled dog. But with less of a risk of spraining an ankle.”

Blip said, “Pretty sure Captain Sunlight declared it too risky for regular deliveries. The hovercycle’s for small packages, not whole piles.”

Paint clambered over the stack to look down at us. Her orange scales were bright in this foresty dimness. “But it’s all tied down so well.”

I craned my neck up. “Are those rated for sitting on?”

“Hm. Probably not.” She climbed back to the front where the brakes were. She was a little small to be of any help in pushing, but she made a good lookout.

Like now. “Hey, what’s that?”

I peered around the side of the package stack, but didn’t see anything other than giant trees and a ground covered in roots. Plus the occasional white marker attached to the trunks so offworld courier crews didn’t get desperately lost. It was all very shadowy and green. “Where?”

“There’s misty-looking stuff in the distance,” Paint reported. “Steam? Fog? Poison gas?”

Blip groaned. “I hope not.”

I thought back to the briefing for this location. “There wasn’t anything hazardous in the report. No predators of note either.”

“Good,” Blip said as the mist grew thick enough to spot in the shadows. “That means probably nothing will jump out at us when the visibility’s egg-dark.”

“Probably,” I agreed. “Are we still going to be able to see the pathway?” The white marker sticks were kind of far apart. I didn’t like our odds if we missed one.

“So far,” Paint said from the front of the sled.

We pushed on. The fog thickened faster than I expected, and I found myself struggling to make out the root shapes before I needed to step on or over them. “Paint? Are we going the right way?”

“I think so?” she said, a faint distressed blur in the darkness. “I don’t suppose either of you brought a light?”

“No.” I sighed. “Just my communicator, which isn’t going to do us much good.”

“I’ve got one!” Blip said, tugging at a pocket that I hadn’t realized was there. “It’s the kind that doesn’t make your eyes adjust, too.” With a quiet click, suddenly everything was vivid red.

“Ow,” I said on reflex.

“Perfect!” Paint exclaimed, setting the brakes and climbing over the boxes again. Her scales were as red as the boxes, though Blip looked black like the roots underfoot. While they handed the light off, I checked my own hand out of curiosity: red too, though not as bright as Paint.

“Twist it to adjust the focus!” Blip called. We were in shadow again, now that the light was on the other side of the stack.

“Got it,” Paint said. She fiddled with it for a moment, then sent a beam of red lancing into the mist with much less scattering in all directions. “That way! A little more to the left!”

Blip and I resumed pushing. We had to rely on Paint completely, but it worked.

She sounded delighted. “We’ll be there in no time! Onward!”

It was then that I realized what all this reminded me of, and I nearly fell over laughing. They of course demanded to know what was so funny.

“Another legend from my planet,” I said, wiping away tears. “Paint, I got to be Balto last time. You get to be the hero today!”

And then I sang Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for my alien coworkers, and they were honored to be part of it.

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The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. More to come! And I am currently drafting a sequel!

[kartoonkane]

little pre-birthday for @smorbaa Ruby tried to cake a nice and large cake and went a little overboard!

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⭐ HAPPY SUPER BIRTHDAY⭐

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I think they would spend time together for holidays because they FAMILY.

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