The Man with All the Toys

"The Man with All the Toys"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
Released November 9, 1964 [1]
Format Vinyl
Recorded June 25, 1964 [2]
Genre Rock, Christmas
Length 1:32
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Brian Wilson
Mike Love
Producer Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Dance, Dance, Dance"/"The Warmth of the Sun"
(1964)		 "The Man with All the Toys"/"Blue Christmas"
(1964)		 "Do You Wanna Dance?"/"Please Let Me Wonder"
(1965)

"The Man with All the Toys" is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album The Beach Boys' Christmas Album. As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by Billboard in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick".

Wilson re-recorded this song for his 2005 Christmas album, What I Really Want for Christmas.

Performers

Notes

  1. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 72
  2. ^ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 58

See also

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album track listing