{"id":5695,"date":"2011-12-23T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2022-03-27T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:05:25","slug":"christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Want For Christmas &#8211; Lotsa Wavy Hair Like Liberace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace\/movie-matinee-header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"movie-matinee-header\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5696\" title=\"movie-matinee-header\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=640%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a treasure from 1954 &#8211; <em><strong>Liberace&#8217;s Christmas Special!<\/strong><\/em> His brother George <em>is<\/em> there along with Santa Claus and the rest of Liberace&#8217;s family!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would be easy and\/or lazy to make all of the obvious jokes about Liberace, but this special was shot before he got carried away with the Las Vegas act. He was an entertainer in a tuxedo who knew he was an entertainer and was happy playing a piano for the viewers at home. His inclusion of his family on-stage is actually very sweet. You see this guy before he became a cartoon character within the context of his family. He was a brother, uncle and son who happened to work in show business.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheLiberaceShow-1954ChristmasEpisode\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble viewing it here, head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheLiberaceShow-1954ChristmasEpisode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Internet Archive<\/strong><\/a> to either download it or watch it streaming there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a treasure from 1954 &#8211; Liberace&#8217;s Christmas Special! His brother George is there along with Santa Claus and the rest of Liberace&#8217;s family! Of course, it would be easy and\/or lazy to make all of the obvious jokes about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[368],"tags":[1170,86,1169,207],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","tag-1170","tag-christmas","tag-liberace","tag-piano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1tR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14642,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/21\/liberpapi\/","url_meta":{"origin":5695,"position":0},"title":"Liberpapi","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Halloween draws near, I like to think that everyone enjoys dressing for the occasion - even our four legged friends. This is Papi, a debonair Chihuahua who wanted to channel his inner Liberace - so I made this glittery bow tie just for him. Besides, you never know when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PreppyPapi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PreppyPapi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PreppyPapi.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42108,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/12\/06\/an-ideal-christmas-window\/","url_meta":{"origin":5695,"position":1},"title":"An Ideal Christmas Window","author":"Joe","date":"December 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This once was a bakery and now it's a private residence, but the owners never changed the front of the building. Only in South Philadelphia! The bakery in 1954.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/photography-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ideal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17935,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/12\/19\/christmas-in-south-philadelphia\/","url_meta":{"origin":5695,"position":2},"title":"Christmas in South Philadelphia","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"...about 50 years ago. My Dad must have stayed up late getting everything in place. It's the early 1960s. My stocking is on the end. No stocking for my younger brother who hadn't shown up yet. I was the baby.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Christmas in South Philly","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7560\/16051747171_231d72b13d_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7560\/16051747171_231d72b13d_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7560\/16051747171_231d72b13d_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/08\/christmas-bytes\/","url_meta":{"origin":5695,"position":3},"title":"Christmas Bytes","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"One Christmas morning some 30-odd years ago my Father snapped this photograph on his Sears-branded Pentax SLR as my brother unwrapped a Sears-branded Atari 2600 known as the Sears Video Arcade. In between my brother and me is the box for a small, portable, black-and-white TV that my Dad bought\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Sears Video Arcade","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2172\/2303269638_154a49041f_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2172\/2303269638_154a49041f_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2172\/2303269638_154a49041f_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2172\/2303269638_154a49041f_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5665,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/21\/truck-mascot-christmas-special\/","url_meta":{"origin":5695,"position":4},"title":"The Truck Mascot Christmas Special","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Private refuse collectors get in the spirit of the season with this Christmas-y truck mascot. 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