# Christmas songs - so many questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994 "2025-12-23T22:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/41 "2025-12-25T01:08:56Z")
I’m listening to Ella Fitzgerald just doing a marvelous version of “Sleigh Ride.” Why do songs like that disappear, I guess tomorrow? Can’t we have Dino do “Marshmallow World” in January? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/42 "2025-12-25T02:05:35Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > What did the Hall family do that makes people want to deck them? The Hall family certainly left their mark! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/43 "2025-12-25T02:48:16Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > And you mean to tell me the Batmobile didn’t have run flat tires? Don’t be Silly! It lost the _whole Wheel!_ Not just a flat. I always wondered why Rudy didn’t tell Santa to eat a bag of dicks. _“Oh, you like me now, Fat-Man? Please see the Mistletoe hangin’ off my tail, Bitch!”_ ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/44 "2025-12-25T02:58:40Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > To add: > > - **Baby It’s Cold Outside** - A bit sexy for Christmas. Some find it disturbing. I have always loved this song and could never get on board with those that find it “rapey”. That being said, I know realize that in most versions I’ve heard, the man’s patter is significantly overpowered by the woman’s. Then I heard Dean Martin’s. OK, I sort of get it now 🙂 > [@solost](#): > > _ **I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus** _ > > Isn’t this kid, who believes he sees his father getting cucked by a beloved mythical figure, going to be emotionally scarred for life? I remember as a teen, working at _Wet Seal_ in the mall, we played the Rock and Roll Christmas album on repeat. If we’re to believe John Cougar Mellencamp, he saw Mommy _tinkle on_ Santa Claus. That’s not better. > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Spiderman](#): > > > > **Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer** - > > Why did “Like George Washington” ever catch on as the final verse of the “call and response” version, when “Like Napoleon” scans so much better? We sang “like Columbus”. French asshole, Italian asshole…as long as it scans. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/45 "2025-12-25T03:24:28Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > > Why did “Like George Washington” ever catch on as the final verse of the “call and response” version, when “Like Napoleon” scans so much better? > > We sang “like Columbus”. French asshole, Italian asshole…as long as it scans. I’ve always liked “On your report card” more. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/46 "2025-12-25T04:02:00Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I have always loved this song and could never get on board with those that find it “rapey”. It does depend, for me, on who sings it. I always liked Dean Martins version, but yeah, it’s not as bad as people say. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/47 "2025-12-25T13:08:56Z")
On Brian Setzer’s Christmas album, he does a version of Baby Its Cold Outside with Ann-Margaret, which isn’t too bad until you realize she’s probably old enough to be his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/48 "2025-12-25T14:12:17Z")
As always, the Muppets did it best. Here’s [Miss Piggy with Rudolf Nureyev](https://youtu.be/xAuYVsokC5o?si=ykCgIvGDlF0CuXWK) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/49 "2025-12-25T14:37:52Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > On Brian Setzer’s Christmas album, he does a version of Baby Its Cold Outside with Ann-Margaret, which isn’t too bad until you realize she’s probably old enough to be his mother. _Say, what’s in this drink?_ Well, you keep forgetting to take your arthritis medicine, so I got creative… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/50 "2025-12-25T14:46:37Z")
For true Chicagoans. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VKGonDIq8gw/hqdefault.jpg "Hardrock, Coco and Joe") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKGonDIq8gw) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/51 "2025-12-25T15:54:04Z")
**Winter Wonderland** Why on Earth would Parson Brown be at all interested in whether or not two children/teens are married? Unless they’re really laying it on with the PDA or something, which, did that happen in the 1930s? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/52 "2025-12-25T15:55:38Z")
**It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year** Did/do people really tell “scary ghost stories” at Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/53 "2025-12-25T16:01:24Z")
I always assumed that was a reference to _A Christmas Carol_. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/54 "2025-12-25T16:03:46Z")
**Little St. Nick** “Half a dozen deer with Rudy to lead” – what happened to the other two? Reindeer sausage? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/55 "2025-12-25T16:05:06Z")
**It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas -** Which parents were far enough ahead of the curve to have a daughter named “Jen” in 1951? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/56 "2025-12-25T16:16:16Z")
**I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day -** Who or what is “the snowman” who “brings the snow”? Some kind of mythical figure à la the Sandman? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/57 "2025-12-25T16:25:42Z")
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is badly in need of modernization. _All of the other reindeer laughed at him and called him names So Rudolph picked up an Uzi and made them cower down in shame_ ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/58 "2025-12-25T16:34:16Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > **It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas -** Which parents were far enough ahead of the curve to have a daughter named “Jen” in 1951? For whatever it’s worth, “Jennifer” was the 98th-most popular girls’ name in the 1950s., so it was definitely on the way up in 1951. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/59 "2025-12-25T16:34:42Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I have always loved this song and could never get on board with those that find it “rapey”. That being said, I know realize that in most versions I’ve heard, the man’s patter is significantly overpowered by the woman’s. Then I heard Dean Martin’s. OK, I sort of get it now I like Jimmy Buffett’s version, where the gender roles are flipped, with Buffett the one being offered a drink and being asked to stay at the female singer’s (Nadirah Shakoor) home. Instead of a father pacing the floor, it’s Jimmy’s puppy pacing and waiting for him to get home. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/60 "2025-12-25T16:58:45Z")
Who on Earth refers to popcorn as “CORN FOR POPPING”??!!? obviously aside from songwriters needing to rhyme “it doesn’t show signs of stopping”. WHO?!? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994.md?page=4)