Art Carney - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (1954)

man, i didn't know he was such a hep cat!

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Will Smith definitely owes Art's estate some residuals! Fresh Prince of the North Pole!!!

The first rap

Huh yeah the cadence isn't too different from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song.

Sounds like Art Carney invented rap.

Sound like Fresh Prince of Bel Air opening music was inspired by this.

Santa sounds like Arthur Godfrey

Ed Norton is a Rapper Cool.

Fresh Prince and Will Smith owe this family a LOT of money!!!!!

The inventor of rap music!!!

Thank you Dave Powers for keeping my Dad's memory alive and well at Christmas time this year. I still smile every time I listen to this recording. He was about 36 years old at the time.

All across the world are families with NORTON imitators making them crack-up still. Thank you Art Carney - you were one of a kind.

cool song and classic record player.

I had this on a record called "A Child's Christmas". Thank you for letting me hear it again!

My daughters both said it sounds like the fresh prince of belaire theme.

I love swing

A bit rappish for 54

Wow, and Sam Ulano was the drummer!

So Art Carney actually invented rap?

This is quite groovy

What's not to like? PERFECT!! Thanks Dave!

This is cool

straight bars fr fr

Thanks so much art Carney for inventing rap. Sarcasm is heavy Heya Ralphie!

So great! Sounds like Will Smith in the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire. Who knew he invented Rap???

Who was the first gangsta rapper?
Today, the term rapper is established by outsiders, while MC has taken a back seat. The first rap recording is often called King Tim III (Personality Jock) by the radio combo Fatback Band, but early records by The Last Poets were also an important cornerstone for spoken rhymes.

Rap - Wikipedia

Ahhh, Art Carney, the origin of rap.

Just head this on XM radio today and couldn’t help but think it was a kind of proto-rap!

The first rapper. Holy shit 😳

Hey...Hey...Ralphie Boy....
Whadda Ya think of that???

Rockin Christmas with Ralph Cramden!

Wow!! That was seriously cool, man.

Word! Art Carney.was rappin'!

Very vute

Right up there with the Hucklebuck! 😆

I just heard this on XM. It's so bad it's good, I can't stop listening to it! I can't believe in 67 years I've never heard this. It should be a Christmas staple like the Chipmunk song.

Why haven’t I ever heard this masterpiece before this year? Art was was singing rap 30 years before anyone else.

Such a great recording that I only discovered this holiday season - thank you for having it hear/here (Har har) 😆 - this is now a Christmas music staple for me going forward 🎄

I heard this for the first time and thought it was the theme song from Fresh Prince of Belair.😀

I just heard this on XM for the first time in my 70 year old life! I love it! Thanks for putting it out there! 😂❤

Blondie's rapture had to be influenced by this. Sounds just like it.

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THis is Art Carney, like Ed Norton? It's pretty groovy

C-R-A-Z-Y. ❤

Is the Prince of Belleair theme ripping your Dad’s rendition of that music? P of B tv theme is credited to Quincey Jones III. What’s up?