I have a new one - at least for the holidays! It used to be “Dominick the Christmas Donkey”, but now it’s Gayla Peevey’s “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas!”
VCNJ~
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer–Patsy & Elmo
The 12 Days of Phantom, A Full Frontal Christmas, and a bunch of others from the Carols for a Cure CDS (you have not heard Silent Night till you’ve heard it tap danced and belted out!)
Novelty songs, or novelty Christmas songs?
I’ll assume Christmas and add:
“All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth” – Spike Jones and his City Slickers
“Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” – Martin Mull
“Christmas at Kmart” – Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band
Chiron Beta Prime, Jonathan Coulton
It’s Christmas on Chiron Beta Prima/
and we’re working in a mine
for our robot overlords/
did I say overlords? I meant protectors…
Anything by Bob Rivers. Walkin’ 'Round in Women’s Underwear, There’s a Santa Who Looks a Lot Like Elvis, The 12 Pains of Christmas…it’s all good.
Oh, and Elf’s Lament from Barenaked Ladies.
The Maharajah Of Magador (Lyrics)
I Scream, You Scream (Lyrics)
My Old Flame (Spike Jones. Lyrics)
To name a few…
Does Give the Jew Girl Toys by Sarah Silverman count?
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I LOVE that song-in fact I’m listening to it right now!
I want a hippopatmus for Christmas
Only a hippopatmus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinosauruseses
I only like hippopatmuseses
And hippopatmuseses like me too!
What about Patrick Swayze Christmas from MST3K?
The Pretty Little Dolly
I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas
Or their “Merry Xmas…If That’s OK”
Adam Sandler 's “Hanukkah Song” works for me.
On XM’s “Special X” (107) I heard a Hanukkah version of The Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping”. According to the readout, the artist was Save Ferris or something like that. Anyone else heard this?
“Blue Christmas” by Mel Blanc as Porky Pig never fails to crack me up.
Let us all now sing our praises to the Lord today…
Although you may not share our belief system which is perfectly okay
Elf’s Lament is on the corporate provided & mandated Christmas CD at the retail store I’m working in on a PT basis. lol Cracks me up every time.
VCNJ~
It’s Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al.
Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping
It’s the end of all humanity
No more time for last minute shopping
It’s time to face our final destiny.
Not to nitpick, but Denny Brownlee is the vocalist behind this song. He was identified as “Porky Pig” on the original 45 RPM release of the song but Warner Brothers complained about copyright infringement, so he was rechristened “Seymour Swine” for legal reasons.
Just an FYI… and that one is one of my favorite Christmas novelty songs.
I am Santa Claus by Bob Rivers. Even my 8 yo son knows the words.
I have always loved Snoopy’s Christmas. I heard it the other day and I still get a kick out of it.
Link to short sample from the link above.
The album I linked to has many other novelty songs.
Jim
I’ll take this as an opportunity to plug my web site, Swazoo Koolak’s Web Jukebox (again). This month’s selections are all novelty songs. My favorite among the selections is Any Ice To-Day, Lady? as performed by Waring’s Pennsylvanians.
Ukulele Ike, please note that there’s a Cliff Edwards side in this month’s selections.