Sad to say, yes, though he tried to turn it around...
Since we're into the Christmas season:
I've been a DJ at a college station in Mass. (WMWM Salem) for 25 years (!) and I currently do an occasional blues show there. This time of year I mix in some Christmas novelty stuff--last week I was on and played Freberg's "Green Chri$tma$" and
"Christmas Dragnet"...and here are some other interesting thing my station has had that I've played
THE ROVERS 45, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" b/w
"Merry Bloody X-Mas". Put out by Toronto's Attic records
in the early 80s, and sadly my station's copy seems to be gone (wasn't there when I checked last yr!). The A-side
of course is the Elmo and Patsy tune though I think I like
this version better, while the flip is another country tune: "Merry X-mas to me/My dog threw up all
over the X-mas tree/They repossessed/Me color TV/
Oh, Merry Bloody Xmas to me"
That group of course did The Unicorn as The Irish Rovers
then dropped the middle part of their name and had a hit with Wasn't That A Party
Bob and the Dylantones 45, "White Christmas". Just a guy
singing the classic in Dylan style
Tommy and the Greyhounds 45, "It's a Technicolor Christmas When You're Jewish"..."because the moviehouses never
close...While other folks sing carols in an open
sleigh/We've got a date with Yentl on this special day"
CD compilation, "Christmas Party with Eddie G". Features
Billy West imitating the Stooges in comedy bits. (CD
was put together by Eddie Gorodetsky who is a comedy
writer and once worked for WBCN in Boston--West worked
for WBCN; later for Howard Stern, and does the voice
of Fry in Futurama)
This CD also has "Donde Esta Santa Claus" a nice tune
in which a Hispanic boy sings (and one of Santa's
reindeer is Pancho). This is the song that Cheech
Marin is attempting to sing at the start of Cheech
and Chong's "Santa and his old lady"