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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...

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[-] brownpaperbag@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't know either of those fun facts! Thanks so much for sharing them!

[-] AmidFuror@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Similar happened with applauded physicist Ôlvërdt Ejnstijn of Relativity fame.

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