Posted on 12/17/2015 5:50:31 PM PST by 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.
Chipmunks Roasting....my favorite also.
Thanks for posting - beat me to it.
All right. This is getting out of hand. Someone needs to notify the moderator.
The purpose of my post was not to reminisce about crappy songs but to discuss why they are no longer played. Is it some sort of conspiracy. Are we subtly being inculcated with political correctness? Is religion slowly being sucked from the airwaves? What type of censorship is this and why is it occurring?
Lots of great links in this thread!
Do you have the following songs in your library? Just wondering.
As the ACLU, CAIR and others of their ilk spread warm greetings and cheer during this Holiday Season, I think it’s time for some politically INCORRECT Christmas Carols. I’m getting misty-eyed as I compile a list of my favorites while experiencing a warm glow coming over me (I certainly hope it’s not the same kind as Alexander Litvinenko’s). Anyway, let me share a few familiar song titles with you, albeit slightly modified.
1. Infidels, Infidels, it’s jihad time in the city (Silver Bells)
2. Frosty the Imam (Frosty the Snowman), also known as, “Come Fly With Meâ€
3. Jihadi Tree, O’ Jihadi Tree, there is a Jew behind thee (Christmas Tree)
4. O’ Little Town of Kandahar (O’ Little Town of Bethlehem)
5. Omar, the One-Eyed Mullah (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer)
6. Deck the Halls With Bombs of Plastique (Deck the Halls)
7. Hark, Harold the Mullah’s Singhing (Hark the Herald Angels)
8. Here Comes Sadr Claus (Here Comes Santa Claus)
9. Away In a Bunker (Away in a Manger)
10. We Wish You a Merry Death Wish (We Wish You a Merry Christmas)
11. No Al Qaeda In Iraq, or Nancy Pelosi’s, I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt (Skin) (all right, it’s not a Christmas Carol – I know)
12. O’ Hillary, O’ Hillary, what happened to Vince Foster? (O Christmas Tree)
13. The Little Bomber Boy (The Little Drummer Boy)
14. I Saw Nancy Kissing Murthra’s Ass (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)
15. Slay Ride (Sleigh Ride)
16. O’ Come All Ye Muslims, kill all non-believers (O’ Come All Ye Faithful)
17. All I Want For Christmas Is My I.E.D. (All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth)
18. I’ve Got My (Suicide) Vest to Keep Me Warm (I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm)
19. Alcee Got Run Over By Pelosi (Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer)
20. Iraqin’ Around the Sunni Tree (Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree)
21. Violent Night (Silent Night)
22. People We Have Blown Sky High (Angels We have Heard on High)
Can you feel the love here? I’m thinking about releasing a CD, but will it play in Peoria?
I don’t listen to broadcast radio anymore, just Internet stations now. There’s one called 181.fm that has a ton of Christmas channels. Christmas fun and Christmas kids are probably two good sources.
I hate to say it, but commercial radio is driven by market demand. Guess it’s a sad state of affairs that there isn’t room for silliness around Christmas these days. Of course, with the current lack of CHRIST it’s no mystery that a lot of joy has gone out of the season.
Perhaps this might be enjoyable —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2dSjzZF3I
LOL, I was not the only (or even the first) to mention our old paisan Dominic! I think that is truly a “regional hit”. Years ago our daughter’s bf was with us for Christmas and heard that song for the first time and found it quite amusing.
Kathy says she’ll try and find some, so check in at the canteen.
You’re the best Kathy!
I guess my fave of these (and not sure it really qualifies, but it’s a great song) is Merry Christmas from the Family by Robert Earl Keen.
And hubby found a great one years ago by Dan Hicks “Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit”.
Oh, another great one he found was “Santa’s Lament” by Father Guido Sarducci (of SNL fame). I can’t remember exactly, it might be more of a spoken thing than a song really, but it’s hilarious.
Yeah, Suffolk county gets a little far. My b-i-l lives out there and you just get to that one spot in the road and you need to switch to other stations. He has been listening to a great classic rock station that comes across the Sound from Connecticut, it’s an excellent station and comes in clear as a bell.
That’s one of the really great things about the internet, it’s really given new life to radio stations. But I do still want to put our radio back in the kitchen. (3 years later we are still disrupted by Sandy, but maybe now finally getting back to, you know, “normal”.)
Bob and Doug McKenzie sing “12 Days of Christmasâ€
LOL, I forgot this one. Great!
“Jihadi Tree, O’ Jihadi Tree, there is a Jew behind thee”
OK, it’s bad, I shouldn’t laugh, but that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a month!
Yes, you should record this album, and give away on late night TV!
The answer to your question is rather complex.
Up until the 1930's, most Christmas songs heard on the radio were hymns and gospel songs such as "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night." By the mid-1930's, non-religious songs such as "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "Winter Wonderland" began to get airplay, and starting in the early 1940's, new Christmas songs by singers such as Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, etc. started to come out every year. This would continue until 1963, which saw the release of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Paper," Allen Sherman's "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas," Phil Spector's album "A Christmas Gift for You," etc.
For some reason, new Christmas songs by pop artists slowed to a trickle after 1963. Social and political turmoil, Beatlemania "acid rock," etc. may have diminished the public's interest in Christmas songs. Interestingly, one of the big Christmas hits from this period was Stevie Wonder's political tirade, "Someday at Christmas" (1968), a far cry from Andy Williams' "Do You Hear What I Hear?" from just six years earlier.
In recent years I have heard some new Christmas music by groups such as Mannheim Steamroller--but then again, there's that stupid song about a woman's encounter with a caribou that we have to endure every Christmas season.
Nonetheless, I am amazed at some of the songs I have been hearing in malls, department stores, eating places and supermarkets. For five decades, Eartha Kitt"s "Santa Baby" wasn't played anywhere, but nowadays, one can expect to hear it several times each Christmas season. I was also pleasantly surprised to hear "Hey, Santa Claus" by the Moonglows, once considered a highly sought-after collector's item, while eating at a restaurant.
Local favorites and snicker songs are purged in favor of songs that are popular and "uncontroversial".
No conspiracy, just a desire to avoid trouble.
Example, my local country station used to play, on opening day "Second Week of Deer Camp" by Da Yoopers. But the brass made them stop. Why? It seemed that the station was now on line and heard all over the world and our local humor was not going over well everywhere.
So it got dropped.
Mostly.
The Morning DJ's still hum the opening bars on opening day but they can't play the song.
Some guy listening in East Juhunga might be offended.
I also hardly ever listen to music on the radio. While I’m in the car, I listen to a lot of political commentary on AM stations, but when I want to hear music, I’ll switch over to Sirius Satellite unless I’m within range of KZPO, 103.3 FM in Lindsay, Calif., in Tulare County. That’s also available over the Internet.
The change of heart? The disc jockey announced that he hadn't said it to anyone but he was refusing to play any Christmas songs, until a listener called in and requested Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero. Well someone made that call.
Thanks... that is one of my favorites... because it reminds me of an old goofball friend of mine who would sing it... a proud Italian Guy from Bound Brook.
Former member of The Demento Society here... somewhere stashed away I have a Rhino Records release of Dr. Demento Christmas songs...on vinyl of course.
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