Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album is a record album produced in 1980 by RSO Records. It features recordings of Star Wars-themed Christmas songs and stories about a droid factory where the robots make toys year-round for “S. Claus”. Much of the album is sung and narrated by British actor Anthony Daniels, reprising his role as C-3PO from the Star Wars films, and written by composer-lyricist Maury Yeston. Sound designer Ben Burtt also provided sound effects for R2-D2 and Chewbacca. Production The album was produced by Meco Monardo (who had previously recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk), with the hope that this would be the first in a series of annual Star Wars Christmas albums. The title, the story, and the majority of the album’s original songs, both music and lyrics, were written by Yeston, then a Yale University music professor who went on to become the twice Tony…
He was sweeping the floors at the studio and he was already half way there.
Wow that post title kept getting more and more interesting and then… you dropped that last fun fact at the end. Great TIL post!
His name is actually John Francis Bongiovi and at the time that’s what he went by. It was 3 years later he formed Bon Jovi.
Only because I hate the “that guys name was …” format.
Also fun fact, Bon Jovi is named such because John Bongiovi wanted people to pronounce his surname correctly, the exact same thing Chef “Boy-ar-Dee” Boiardi did decades prior.
I didn’t know either of those fun facts! Thanks so much for sharing them!
Oh my. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQ-VZUdiqg
The Star Wars Christmas Special TV show had an audio-only equivalent. I regret learning that today.