MuzikMan: Where are you from and how did you get your start in the music industry?

Davie Allan: I'm a California native, born in Los Angeles. I became interested in music quite young but it was seeing Elvis on TV that really got me thinking about a possible career. In high school I met and became friends with Mike Curb who would be my producer in the early years. We started doing demos in school and then the first of two big breaks came when Tower Records (Capitol subsidiary) released the first Arrows' single "Apache '65." The second break came when we joined forces with A.I.P. (American International Pictures) and started doing their movie soundtracks. "The Wild Angels" led to a couple dozen biker and "B" movie scores.

MuzikMan: You decided to release your first Christmas album after over 40 years recording, what prompted this decision?

Davie Allan: Two years ago I found out that Little Steven was closing his Underground Garage radio show with "Blues Theme." I wrote and thanked him and a friendship was born. In June of this year, he said I should do a Christmas album and that he would pay for it and release it on his new label Wicked Cool Records. I picked the tunes, arranged them, recorded them, and then he came out here to oversee the keyboard overdubs.

MuzikMan: Little Steven has done a lot of great work exposing worthy artists like yourself and I applaud his work. What was it like working with him in the studio while producing the Christmas album?

Davie Allan: I had already recorded all the tracks when he had an idea for the Christmas With The Kranks film. He wanted a takeoff on "007" to go into "Hark The Herald Angels Sing." I put together an arrangement, Steven flew out, and fine tuned it and played rhythm guitar on it. He then came out for three days for the vintage keyboard overdubs. He is an absolute pleasure to work with and honest...what a rarity today! That track didn't make it into the film but we had a blast recording it, however, "Feliz Navidad" did.