The holiday discs just keep on comin' --
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 and The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 (Shout, list price $15 each; out Nov. 13) – Three-quarters of Sun Records’ legendary “million dollar quartet” reunite on the ’77 disc: Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. (Elvis Presley had died that summer.) Roy Orbison, Roy Clark and The Statler Brothers are other guests with Johnny and wife June in an hour where only 10 of the 17 songs are holiday tunes. On the 1976 special, less than a quarter are Christmas-y, and the guests include Clark again, Barbara Mandrell, Merle Travis and Tony Orlando, plus the Rev. Billy Graham with “A Story of Christmas.”
Christmas Time in South Park (Comedy Central, list price $20; out Nov. 13) -- All seven faves, spanning 1997-2004, include "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo," "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson," "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" (original holiday song videos!), "A Very Creepy Christmas," "Red Sleigh Down," "It's Christmas in Canada" and "Woodland Critter Christmas."