What happened to the silly Christmas songs?

[rey]

We have three radio stations in our are that play Christmas songs all day and another three that play one about every third song. What is interestingly absent are the silly songs like:

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dec9Jb_Ac4

Dear Santa (a personal favorite, the kid from Yemen wanting a grenade launcher is great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtd3GR38wo

Or you ain't gettin diddly squat cause you really messed up this year (not that I like it, but it annoys my grand daughter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoINm3ZWlAE

along with All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, All the chipmunk songs, Grandma got run over (thank goodness), basically anything silly.

They also do not play anything overly religious. I have called and all they say is they don't play those.

Anyone know what's up?

By the way, I'd be happy NOT to hear any John Lennon Christmas songs, Wham or George Michael Christmas songs, Mannheim Steam Roller songs, Maddona Christmas songs, and any collaboration of pop musicians lecturing us about the world via some crappy Christmas song.

[Luke21]

Holiday tree, holiday list..this holiday, blah blah. I want to throw my shoes at those insulting commercials demanding that we buy for some unmentioned gift giving day.

[dfwgator]

Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

[Fiji Hill]

Here are a few

• Santa Claus Is On His Way--Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra (1941)

• Rock and Roly Poly Santa Claus--Lillian Briggs (1955)

• I Saw Mommy Do the Mambo (With You Know Who)--Jimmy Boyd (1953)

• Santa Claus Meets the Purple People Eater--Sheb Wooley (1958)

• Santa and the Satellite--Buchanan & Goodman (1957)

• Elvis for Xmas--Mad Milo (1956)

• I Want to Spend Christmas With Elvis--Marlene Paula (1956)

• Santa and the Touchables--Dickie Goodman (1961)

• I'm Going to Lasso Santa Claus--Brenda Lee (1956)

• Santa Claus for President--Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra (1947)

[CtBigPat]

You want silly? I give you silly!!!

Rusty Chevrolet

ding fries are done

Bob Rivers - 12 Pains Of Christmas

Bob Rivers - Wreck The Malls

It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year

[jocon307]

Missing Dominick the Christmas Donkey, are you? Well, that makes one of us.

Maybe Kathy can work some of these silly tunes into the Canteen this weekend or next.

[jocon307]

WQXR, the NYC classical station has an all holiday tunes thing going on their website (and app).

I haven’t checked it out, but you can find them at wqxr.org

Sirius pretty much s*cks, I’m coming to conclude. I’m just afraid to give it up, since regular radio ain’t much better. God bless WQXR and WBGO (jazz out of Newark).

[jocon307]

“Run DMC’s “Christmastime in Hollis”

Great tune! Actually had a friend who lived in Hollis, she was actually a Jewish gal, but of course she loved that song too.

Run has a cooking show now on Cooking TV, “Rev Run’s Sunday Dinners” hubby finally figured out it was the guy from the group.

So, man did that make us feel old!

[Henry Hnyellar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryKRcVqsph8&spfreload=10

Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto - James Brown

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Cheech and Chong.

“Santa Clause And His Old Lady”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSH9ryRzHQ4

[VermiciousKnid]

Ugh. I think I know that version. I’m sorry you were subjected to it.

Merry Christmas!

[VermiciousKnid]

Thanks, jocon. I listen to WQXR in the car. The reception in my house (Suffolk County, Long Island) isn’t very good.

I can’t get WBGO at home at all.

Merry Christmas!

[rey]

It is not that I am missing most of these songs, just like I do not miss choking on cigarette smoke but I question why they are not to be heard.

Would it make my life better if they rounded up certain people and got rid of them, perhaps, but I would worry about ending up on one of those lists myself. I understand freedom of speech as well as other freedoms require me to sometimes endure what I do not care for, like Dominic the Christmas Donkey, which I had happily forgotten about until you brought it up and created an ear worm song for me. THANKS!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Give me some titles and I’ll see what I have or can find.

It would be fun.

And I just found “Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey” in my library. d:o)

[CAluvdubya]

Now that you mention it, my station plays nothing but serious Christmas songs. I get a lot of Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Bing Crosby, though.

Oh, and Johnny Mathis

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

O heck! I just had THAT SONG on my mind!

[TBP]

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Sv0DniGmI

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU “

Don’t forget

“The Night Santa Went Crazy” played live by Weird Al.
It starts at 14:38.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfAJKO-SSqg

Extra gory lyrics:
Yes Virginia, Now Santa is dead
Some guy from the SWAT team
blew a hole through his head.
Yes little friend now,
that’s his brains on the floor,
I guess they won’t have the fat guy kicking around anymore.

Bob and Doug McKenzie sing
“12 Days of Christmas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4

Alvin and The Chipmunks - Christmas Don’t Be Late (Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQX3a7wA4oo

Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw

Other songs listed at this link:
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/top-funny-christmas-songs.htm

[Fiji Hill]

Just about everyone has heard Eartha Kitt's 1953 recording "Santa Baby." Here is the follow-on, which is not heard as often, from 1954.

This Year's Santa Baby

[Fiji Hill]

Santa, Teach Me to Dance--Debbie & the Darnells (1962)

[Fiji Hill]

Dig That Crazy Santa Claus--Oscar McLollie & The Honey Jumpers (1954)