"The Man with All the Toys" is a Christmas song written by

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and

Mike Love Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys with his cousins Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson and their friend Al Jardine. Characterized by his nasal tenor and occasional bass-bari ...

for the American

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. It was released on their 1964 album ''

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album ''The Beach Boys' Christmas Album'' is the seventh studio album by the American rock music, rock band the Beach Boys, released November 9, 1964 on Capitol Records. It contains five original songs and seven standards on a Christmas music, Christma ...

''. 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". A French-language version of this song was recorded in 1968 by Canadian singer

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at YouTube Wilson re-recorded this song for his 2005 Christmas album, ''

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''. D-TV

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set the song to the two Silly Symphonies, ''

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'' and ''

The Night Before Christmas ''A Visit from St. Nicholas'', more commonly known as ''The Night Before Christmas'' and ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'' from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title ''Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'' i ...

''.

Personnel

– lead vocals, piano, bass guitar *

– lead vocals *

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– lead guitar, harmony vocals * Al Jardine – rhythm guitar, harmony vocals * Dennis Wilson – drums, harmony vocals

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Man With All The Toys, The Songs about Santa Claus 1964 songs American Christmas songs The Beach Boys songs Christmas novelty songs Songs written by Brian Wilson Songs written by Mike Love Song recordings produced by Brian Wilson 1964 singles Capitol Records singles