# Your favorite novelty Christmas songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 1999, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910 "1999-11-13T04:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/41 "1999-11-14T21:09:00Z")
Gotta agree with Zette - “The Night Santa Went Crazy” is great…reminds me of my friend’s band who sang about Grimace going psycho and killing Ronald McDonald… Whoops! Time to turn around from Cuba! Anyway…also like: “Christmas in Hollis” - Run DMC “New Kids Got Run Over By A Reindeer” I don’t know the title, but the version of “Twelve Days of Christmas” that has the guy getting beer, turtlenecks… “Hanukah Song” - Adam Sandler. I like the original version better than the one they started playing last year. And I like “Christmas Rapping,” but I get sick of it after the 17th time they play it on WHFS in 5 days. * * * “The point of a journey is not to arrive.” -Neil Peart, Rush ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/42 "1999-11-14T21:59:00Z")
Aw, I’m getting misty. I’ve gotta agree with the Weird Al songs. OTOH, I never cared for “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Here’s a couple of my favorites: “Santa Claus is Watching You” by Ray Stevens “Blue Christmas” by Gary Burbank of WLW radio (sang with a very convincing Porky Pig voice) ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/43 "1999-11-16T02:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Not a song parody per se, but there was an articlew in National Lampoon’s old humor magazine about the Twelve Days of Christmas. It was a series of letters from the recipiant of the traditional gifts, and how she was touched at first, but quickly got annoyed, then furious, and finally sues the gift giver for harrasment just around the time the nine dancing women got delivered by UPS. There is a song parody of this one. I heard it on the local classical/folk station a couple years ago. I don’t know who did it, but I sat in the car in the cold at midnight to hear the rest of it, and giggled all the way into the house. BTW, I think Pretty Little Dolly is the best novelty Christmas song ever written. ---
**Author:** ![Quarterat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5daacb/32.png) [@Quarterat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quarterat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/44 "1999-11-16T02:59:00Z")
Dewaholic I belive you mean Merry Christmas from the family by Robt. Earl Kean ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/45 "1999-11-16T04:06:00Z")
My favorite novelty Christmas song is “Walking around in women’s underwear”. Don’t know who sings it, but it has lush, creamy vocals, to the tune “walking in a winter wonderland”. It sounds so polished and smooth it takes a minute to figure out the singers are crooning about dressing up like Madonna. Cracks me up every time, and I can’t hear the original carol without cackling. Which is okay, because I always hated that carol anyway. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/46 "1999-11-16T06:30:00Z")
TVblem: I have that song on a sampler from The Album Network, a trade publication for radio. The song is done by Bob Rivers, morning mnan at Seattle’s KISW. Also on this CD, and why the heck hasn’t anyone mentioned this yet, is Bob & Doug McKenzie’s “The Twelve Days iof Christmas,” which rules da yules! * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/47 "1999-11-16T07:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > “Jingle Bell Rock” was by Bobby Sherman (early 70s).—Dougie Monty Are you sure there wasn’t an earlier version? It sounds older, and I didn’t know Bobby Sherman ever recorded a song that wasn’t a cover. * * * Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together. —Red Green ---
**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/48 "1999-11-16T17:03:00Z")
Are there no NYC-area Dopers who grew up with “Dominic the Donkey”??? It’s this very Italian Christmas song…they used to play it on Z100 for the longest time, that is, before they started to suck. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/49 "1999-11-17T06:02:00Z")
“Jingle Bell Rock” dates to WAAAY before Bobby Sherman. It was copyrighted in 1957 by J. Beale and J. Boothe. My mother had a Christmas record by Bobby Helms (anyone remember him?)dating from the 60s with “JBR” on it, and I think there’s a well-known version by Brenda Lee, too. * * * “Come on, Phonics Monkey–drum!” ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/50 "1999-11-17T06:12:00Z")
Falcon:That song you’re looking for was the Twelve Days Of Christmas by the McKenzie brothers. Satan: The Makenzie song has been mentioned **twice** in this thread, ya hoser! * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/51 "1999-11-16T20:55:00Z")
LauraRae: Dr. Demento sang “I’m a Christmas Tree” with Wild Man Fisher. _He_ sang a lot of songs at the top of his voice, and I think he was supposed to be committed to an insane asylum. ---
**Author:** ![torq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@torq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torq)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/52 "1999-11-16T22:05:00Z")
I also don’t care for _Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer_, but apparently I’m in the minority. And, pardon me, but _Jingle Bell Rock_? The writers of this song obviously foresaw the Bill Murray lounge singer character on SNL, and wrote it specifically for him. Novelty songs I do like: I don’t know the name of this song, but the chorus goes “Merry ex-mas to me/My dog threw up all over the ex-mas tree/They repossessed my color TV/Yeah, merry bloody ex-mas to me.” _I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas_ _Santa Claus is Watching You_ _Twelve Gifts of Christmas_, if that’s the one that has the line “with a clock where her stomach ought to beeeee…” And the McKenzie version of _Twelve Days_. “Good day, and welcome to Day Twelve.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/53 "1999-11-16T22:08:00Z")
Yeah, Torq: “The Twelve Gifts of Christmas” does have that line in it. It was sung by Allan Sherman, and it’s on his album _For Swingin’ Livers Only._ ---
**Author:** ![PTVroman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@PTVroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PTVroman)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/54 "1999-11-16T22:49:00Z")
[\quote]Cheech and Chong had a sort of Christmas thingie. [quote] It’s called Santa Clause and His Old Lady. What about “I saw Daddy Kissing Santa Clause”? Green Chri$tma$ says it all for me. If Dickens thought Christmas cheer was a humbug 100 years ago, what would he think of today? And Green Chri$tma$ was how many years ago? [\quote]We wish you a merry Christmas! And please buy our beer! [quote] Pure genious. * * * _“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”_ Tom Waites, “Step Right Up” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/55 "1999-11-16T22:55:00Z")
To PTVRoman: Freberg made “Green Chri$tma$” in the early 50s. He almost left Capitol Records over it; obviously, Capitol knew what a bundle merchants make on Christmas every year and they tried to talk Freberg into censoring it; they backed down when he told then Verve Records had already agreed to issue it without expurgation. (And I heard about at least one DJ who was fired–at the behest of the station’s sales office–for playing it.) ---
**Author:** ![PTVroman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@PTVroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PTVroman)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/56 "1999-11-16T23:01:00Z")
I coulda swore I replied to this… [quote] Cheech and Chong had a sort of Christmas thingie.[\quote] Santa Clause and His Old Lady What about “I saw Daddy Kissing Santa Clause”? That’ll warp their little brains. For me, my favorite has to be “Green Chri$tma$”. 100 years ago, Dickens thought the Christmas Spirit was humbug. Green Chri$tma$ was how many years ago, and it’s only gotten worse since then. > [@](#): > > We Wish you a merry Christmas > And please buy our beer! That’s Christmas with a message! * * * _“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”_ Tom Waites, “Step Right Up” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/57 "1999-11-17T00:03:00Z")
**On Christmas I Got Nothing** ('Cause We Were Jews) by Chuck Brodsky Bonus humor of the song is that his voice is much like Bob Dylan’s. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/58 "1999-11-17T00:19:00Z")
“You’re a mean one… Mr. Grinch…” I have a version by the Whirling Dervishes that is delightfully reverent to the original! * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![torq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@torq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torq)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/59 "1999-11-17T20:21:00Z")
Ooo, I love the Grinch song! Is the original singer (in the cartoon) Thurl Ravenscroft? ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910/60 "1999-11-17T20:33:00Z")
Not really a novelty song, but Winter Wonderland as sung by The Roches. They sound like a trio of Long Island matrons. Usually put it on my answering machine, but never until after Thanksgiving. Waste Flick Lives! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-novelty-christmas-songs/11910.md?page=4)