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
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.”
[\quote]Cheech and Chong had a sort of Christmas thingie.
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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!
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Pure genious.
“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”
Tom Waites, “Step Right Up”
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.)
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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.
“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”
Tom Waites, “Step Right Up”
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.