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.

[Rodamala]

Whenever scallions come up in conversation I’ll say, “Most people call them green onions, but they are really scallions”... and nobody ever “gets it” anymore.

[a fool in paradise]

>>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.

Those Chipmunks did a record 10 years later with Canned Heat in 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45i9RFvHss

[Squawk 8888]

My personal favourite is Santa Baby performed by Pink Martini,

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[a fool in paradise]

Have you heard, Hillary’s campaign has Christmas song:

Fay McKay’s The Twelve Daze of Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjFMBsppBVc

[a fool in paradise]

The Van Morrison/Them tinged “Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7h7NiQNTE

[Norm Lenhart]

How on earth id you people miss this one for 80 posts?????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9URPvejWHk

[Prov1322]

In the 80's Orlando radio station WDBO would air a Christmas Eve afternoon program of these types of Christmas songs.

My favorite remains...

The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen

[trebb]

You forgot the classic dogs barking Jingle Bells...

[defconw]

Did anyone mention Run Run Rudolph? Or the Muppets signing We Need a Little Christmas?

[Califreak]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk

The Season’s Upon Us-Dropkick Murphys

[MeshugeMikey]

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer!!!

[MeshugeMikey]

So This Is Christmas”

That is without a doubt the most OPPRESSIVE “Christmas” song I have ever “experienced”.

how many times can one HEAR “war is over if you want it” sung by yoko ono and live??

[JoeFromSidney]

Yes, I still have my copy of GREEN CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS DRAGNET. Unfortunately, no one today gets the references. You have to have lived through that era to get them.

[jocon307]

Your post just reminded me of something. We were down in MD, last year or the year before and it was 6/25 and one of the local radio stations was playing all Christmas songs, like a half-year Christmas. I heard one, it might have been that Bruce Springsteen Santa Claus is coming to town, or something and I thought, well, OK they are just playing that song because it is pretty good. But then there was another and another and I was like: what is going on?

Finally the DJ came on and clued me in.

My little brother would have loved that when he was a kid, it was hard for him to wait a whole year for next Christmas.

[Overwatcher]

Glad it made you laugh.

[urtax$@work]

There must be trends in even the old stuff. A song i keep hearing this year is....

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm , written by Irving Berlin. Performed by Rosemary Clooney or Kay Starr .

I have heard this only occasionally, but on our FM Christmas station its played every day.

[PrinterEagle]

Yes, I still have my copy of GREEN CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS DRAGNET. Unfortunately, no one today gets the references. You have to have lived through that era to get them.

I was born 8 years after the final Jack Webb Dragnet episode aired. But I'm an anomaly. :)