Season's greetings

Even at this cynical blog I get into the Christmas spirit. Sort of. I rummaged through Richard Carson's I've Got a Secret channel at YouTube and couldn't resist this Christmas present from the December 23, 1959 episode (see the screenshot).

IGAS did a few of these last-name stunts, where they got a bunch of people whose last names made up a song lyric or some such. The most famous was the off-key Sommerstein epic from 1963.

The panel guessed this Christmas secret pretty quick, with Betsy Palmer landing on the key idea of the people's names. The group was quite a multi-culti mix, as Bess Myerson observed. But they were all New Yorkers except for Mr. Years from Philadelphia, which saved on transportation costs.

So as the contestants say, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year(s).