Jingle Cats

Jingle Cats is a series of Christmas novelty recordings from producer Mike Spalla.

The Jingle Cats began their recording career in December 1991, when a precocious kitten named "Cheesepuff" crawled into a Hollywood studio recording booth and began meowing along with the song Jingle Bells, which was being recorded in a session at the time. The studio engineer, Mike Spalla, recorded the meows and adjusted the timing to the music to make the first cat singing in recorded history. The following year, the Jingle Cats cassette was presented at the KLOS Classic Rock Expo in Los Angeles.

In 1993, the album Meowy Christmas, was released on CD and cassette which sold over 100,000 copies in its first four weeks of release. Meowy Christmas reached number 10 on Billboard's catalog chart in 1994 and featured holiday classics such as "O Christmas Tree", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and "Deck The Halls". There are 20 songs on the album.

The follow up album, Here Comes Santa Claws, co-released by BMG in Canada, capitalized on the success of Meowy Christmas to present an assortment of 20th century Christmas compositions including "The Christmas Song", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and naturally, "Here Comes Santa Claus". Here Comes Santa Claws also notably contained an original composition, "A Kitten's Story". The album also contained a rendition of Israel's National Anthem, "Hatikvah".

In 2002, Rhythm and Mews was released. The album presents a musical program of 'year-round' favorites as disparate as "Over The Rainbow", "Dueling Banjos", "The Star Spangled Banner", and "Happy Birthday to You". In 2008, Jingle Cats Music (www.jinglecats.com) released the Jingle Cats Christmas DVD, a collection of Jingle Cats animation, and a new album by the Jingle Dogs entitled "Puppy Holidays." In 2009, Jingle Cats Music released a brand new album entitled, "First Meowel."