OSB 760 Tamar Springer "More Than Santa Baby"

Dr Elmo gave us the classic Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" 46 years ago and we interviewed him back in 2009. We get a closer look at how the song came to be, what Dr Elmo wanted to be when he was growing up and so much more!

Episode 760 of On Screen & Beyond gets us into the Christmas spirit with Tamar Springer, the creator of a new documentary called "More Than Santa Baby" about Philip Springer, the man who gave us the Holiday song "Santa Baby" and all the other wonderful songs he gave us. Songs that were sung by Frank SInatra, Aretha Franklin, Elvis, Madonna, Taylor Swift and so many others!

Episode 759 of On Screen & Beyond has singer/songwriter John Batdorf of the band SIlver from the 70's who had the hit song "Wham Bam Shang A Lang" which was recently in the hit movie "Guardians of the Galaxy 2"! Over the years John has been part of other groups as well as written songs for others. He also has new music out called "Suffering" as well as "Time Bombs". Be sure to check it out!

Episode 758 of On Screen & Beyond welcomes back Director Michelle Danner to talk about her latest film, "Under The Star" which stars Alex Pettyfer, Toni Collette and Andy Garcia. Michelle takes us behind the scenes of the film which was filmed in Italy and we also talk about some of her other films that are in the works and so much more.

Episode 757 of On Screen & Beyond takes us back to the number 1 song of 1969, "Sugar Sugar" with Ron Dante, Lead singer of The Archies as well as the Cufflink's hit "Tracy"! Ron produced several of Barry Manilow's albums and he sang backup and produced Barry's hit song "Mandy"! Ron shares his musical journey with us.

Episode 756 of On Screen & Beyond takes behind the scenes of the CBS Saturday morning show "The Visioneers with Zay Harding". Zay is the host of the show which is in it's second season, bringing amazing stories of visionary people helping to solve today's issues facing our planet!

Episode 755 of On Screen & Beyond takes us to Broadway with our guest Ali Ewoldt who played Cosette in "The Phantom of the Opera" as well as starring in other Broadway shows! Ali shares her career from High School, to Jasmine at Disneyland, and then on to Broadway. She even appeared in "The MIchael J Fox" show!

In this episode of On Screen & Beyond, we sit down and have a fun chat with actor Christopher Crabb. Christopher starred on the hit Disney show "Danger Bay" in the 80's, was a tennis pro, coached celebrities including Robert Downey Jr to play tennis and now he is guest starring on the new CBS, Paramount + show "Fire Country". We talk about all this and more!

Episode 753 of On Screen & Beyond has Brandon Routh as our guest! Brandon is known for his roles on "Arrow", "DC Legends of Tomorrow", "The Flash" and so much more, including as Superman in 2006's "Superman Returns". He joins us to talk about his latest film, "Out of Order" which is a fun comedy where he plays dual roles and the cast includes Luis Guzman, Sam Huntington and others! A fun film for everyone!

Episode 752 of On Screen & Beyond has James Pickens Jr, Dr Richard Webber on "Grey's Anatomy" joining us as our guest! James talks about his new short film "Albert's Flower", his career, working with amazing directors, Denzel, Samuel L Jackson and more! James has been on so many shows and film including "Traffic", "42", "Roseanne" and the list goes on and on!