# Putcher Hated Holiday Songs Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418 "2004-12-17T21:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/61 "2005-12-13T01:12:34Z")
“I like a sleighride…I like a sleighride…” Who did that? Leggy Pee, er Peggy Lee? Is _Scarlet Ribbons_ a Christmas song? No matter, it’s glurge. “Squeeze me I rattle…Pinch me I cry…” That horrific fundamentalist nose-job-that-walks-like-a-woman, Cristy Lane, has that one in her TV ad. Dammer t’hell. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/62 "2005-12-13T02:19:23Z")
Whatever this thing is called…Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you… I can’t think of the title, but I really hate it. ``` "Christmas time is here" ? from the Charlie Brown Christmas special. Good lord, how depressing is this song? ``` I’ve said this many times, but “Do they know it’s Christmas?” is quite possibly not only the worst holiday song ever recorded, but the worst song of any genre ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/63 "2005-12-13T03:09:06Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > 1.“I’m Gettin’ Nuttin’ for Christmas” (horrible, horrible–sung by a kid who should have been strangled at birth). [He became a talk-radio host](http://gordontalk.typepad.com/about.html). No idea what’s up with the invisible font though. > [@](#): > > - > > 1. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. :rolleyes: \* Since you like Bowie and Bing, try Bing and Ella Fitzgerald singing about Rudolph. > [@](#): > > _6. Barbra Streisand’s version of Jingle Bells. yuck._ Damn right! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Hey, Babs, would it kill you to pick a tempo and stick with it?” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/64 "2005-12-13T03:13:41Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > AFAIK, I’ve never heard the _Christmas Shoes_ song. Apparently this is a blessing. Without a doubt. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/65 "2005-12-13T03:59:47Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > “Do They Know It’s Christmas” (no, they don’t, cause they largely _ain’t Christian_, Band Aid, so shut the fuck _UP_) I thought the song was written for Ethopia, which has a mainly Christian population. Don’t know if they celebrate Halloween in wherever the hell they recorded _Do They Know It’s Halloween_? for, however. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/66 "2005-12-13T19:33:48Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > I thought the song was written for Ethopia [That’s what Wikipedia says](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Know_It's_Christmas). ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/67 "2005-12-13T20:11:13Z")
Without editorializing: **Christmas Shoes** **Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time** **Little Drummer Boy** **Mr. Santa** (not mentioned yet, by Amy Grant and it destroys whatever fun there was in Mr. Sandman) **Santa Claus is Coming to Town** Especially Bruce Springsteen’s version **All I want for Christmas is You** ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/68 "2005-12-13T20:33:38Z")
So when did radio stations pick up on “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”? I’ve loved that song for years, but it was always this obscure oldie that I had taped off of the Doctor Demento show about 25 years ago. I’d go around singing it and no one else had ever heard of it. I even got a silver hippopotamus figurine for Christmas a few years ago. It’s a crying shame if this once-offbeat novelty has turned into an overplayed annoyance on the level of the abominable “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” Oh, and the McCartney song is called “Wonderful Christmastime”; no “simply having” in the title. Yeah, I like that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/69 "2005-12-13T21:52:52Z")
**Here Comes Santa Claus.** I swear, that song must have been written in three minutes. It’s one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard, let alone the worst Christmas songs. _Here comes Santa Claus Here comes Santa Claus_ OK, so Santa is approaching. I don’t know how we’re supposed to know this, given that he only comes when we’re asleep and under the cover of night. This is the most boring opening someone could come up with for “write a song about Santa Claus,” IMHO. _Right down Santa Claus Lane_ WTF? A Lane? He’s just walking down a stupid road? I thought he flew right to my house on a sleigh! And why the hell is the road named after Santa? Does this make any sense at all? _Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeer_ The poor nameless ones. _Pullin’ on the reins_ So wait–is he on a sleigh? Or is the sleigh in the lane? Santa Claus Lane? Or in the sky? _Bells are ringin’, children singin’ All is merry and bright_ Fluffy Christmas imagery with no content. A first-grader wrote this as a poem to his mom somewhere. A first-grader who has somethin’ against the letter “g.” _Hang your stockings and say your prayers_ My prayers? Wha? This is a religious song? You’re telling me to pray? _'Cause Santa Claus comes tonight!_ Oh, I’m praying so that Santa comes to my house and gives me stuff. I guess that’s one reason to get all religious. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![clnilsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/70 "2005-12-13T22:10:54Z")
> [@Melandry](#): > > **Christmas Shoes**. What a bunch of overly schmaltzy dreck. Pure glurge. I see people posting elsewhere on the board about how the song makes them cry, and, to be honest, I wonder about those people. A lot. I need to vent my seconding for HATING this crappy piece of dreck. Now, i love christmas music. I listen to it all year long, have tons of it on mp3, etc. When this comes up on the satellite radio xmas station, I just cringe. Sometimes I need to shout profanity, in a desperate reach to retain my sanity. This song i think was composed my committee, sitting down and coming up with every banal cliche in the book. Sloppy poor kids - Check Christmas eve - Check Parents Death - Check Childs choir in the background - Check God reminding some dude about christmas- check Then I think I figued out a coping mechanism this year… finally. [I just picture the kid buying these shoes for mom 🙂](http://www.leatherlustfootwear.com/product.php?productid=233&cat=338&page=1) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/71 "2005-12-13T22:16:02Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > Oh, I’m praying so that Santa comes to my house and gives me stuff. I guess that’s one reason to get all religious. Yay. SCiCTT does have a unique mix of secular and religious imagery – “Santa knows we’re all God’s children, ‘n’ that makes everything right…Let’s give thanks to the Lord above, cuz SC is comin’ tonight.” Unusual, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/72 "2005-12-14T15:44:30Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > SCiCTT does have a unique mix of secular and religious imagery – “Santa knows we’re all God’s children, ‘n’ that makes everything right…Let’s give thanks to the Lord above, cuz SC is comin’ tonight.” Unusual, to say the least. For further reference see [The Boondocks](http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/) and the three previous days leading up to it. Great stuff! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/73 "2005-12-14T15:51:28Z")
My mistake: it’s Here Comes Santa Claus, not Santa Claus is Coming to Town, that has the secular/religious lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/74 "2005-12-14T16:56:44Z")
I heard this horrible recording the other day. It wasn’t a song as such. It was this guy reciting a _Night Before Christmas_ type poem in which Santa, while out on his rounds encounters a soldier living in squalor (the GI was sleeping on the floor, for some reason). The “poem” goes on for some time with jingoistic talk of how the soldier was a hero, yadda, yadda…I don’t remember the whole thing because I slipped into a diabetic coma from the sugary overload. Anybody know what I’m talking about? I need to know who to do bodily harm to. I’d also like to know who decided _My Favorite Things_ was a Christmas song. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/75 "2005-12-14T17:32:13Z")
I hate all Christmas songs. I love the old Christmas hymns and carols, except “Silent Night” and “Away in a Manger.” But the stuff you hear on the radio, and in every friggin store you go into? It’s nothing but a pile of steaming elephant turds. That includes faux carols, like “Little Drummer Boy.” The worst of the lot? Sing along with Mel and Me: “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/76 "2005-12-14T18:52:17Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > So when did radio stations pick up on “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”? I’ve loved that song for years, but it was always this obscure oldie that I had taped off of the Doctor Demento show about 25 years ago. I’d go around singing it and no one else had ever heard of it. It’s around but, to my knowledge, doesn’t get much play. The only time I’ve heard it this season was on [WASH](http://www.washfm.com/main.html) on the way home Saturday night and that was because someone requested it. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/77 "2005-12-14T19:21:25Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > …Nat King Cole[he of the wonderfully-evocative “Christmas Song”, and my secular favorite]… Oops, that’s the one I came into this thread to complain about it. And not coincidentally, it was what I was woken up to this morning. There’s something about Nat King Cole’s voice that just grates. And I always cringe when I hear “I’m dreaming of a whi-i-i-i-ite Christmas.” It sounds to me like an anthem of race-hate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418.md?page=3)