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Dr. Demento - Greatest Christmas Novelty CD (1989)

If you like your Christmas tidings with a dollop of good humor, then this batch of holiday tunes is left up your alley. The lineup ranges from cute and innocuous (the Chipmunks, the Singing Dogs, and Spike Jones) to satirical (Stan Freberg and Allan Sherman) and just plain weird (Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" and Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol"). A fun seasonal alternative to Bing Crosby.

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Collections like these are always interesting. Humor is subjective so odds are what appeals to some won't appeal to others. Contributions by clever performers like Tom Lehrer and Stan Freeberg are mixed with "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas,"creating quite a mixed bag. From the Singing Dogs to Allen Sherman is quite a leap, but fans of the "fun" side of Christmas music should be satisfied.

Tracks:

01.The Chipmunks with David Seville - The Chipmunk Song

02.Spike Jones & His City Slickers - All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

03.The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells

04.Allan Sherman - The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas

05.Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

06.Stan Freberg - Nuttin' For Christmas

07.Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol

08.Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

09.Yogi Yorgesson - I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas

10.Bob & Doug McKenzie - Twelve Days Of Christmas

11.Stan Freberg - Green Christmas

12.Wild Man Fischer (duet with Dr Demento) - I'm A Christmas tree

13.Kip Addotto - I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus

14.Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus And His Old Lady

15.Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero

16.Stan Freberg & Daws Butler - Christmas Dragnet

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Amazon.com The title might be immodest, but it's accurate. Just about every holiday song parody and comedy sketch you can imagine is jimmied onto this hilarious, sprawling collection. While you'll find a smattering of well-known Christmas wackiness (including "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" and the Singing Dogs' "Jingle Bells"), the Doctor's specialty is unearthing the obscure, such as Wild Man Fischer's weirder-than-weird "I Am a Christmas Tree." You'll never listen to "The 12 Days of Christmas" quite the same way after hearing the spins put on the tale by both Allan Sherman and Bob and Doug McKenzie, and you're likely to check your Christmas cookie for "special ingredients" after hearing Cheech & Chong's "Santa Claus and His Old Lady." --David Sprague Dr. Demento's collection of Holiday novelty songs is a weird and wonderful find. Just when it looked like the genre had been trampled to death with the success of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," the good Doctor shows us that there are richer (and funnier) X-mas musical parodies to enjoy. Granted, some of these tracks are inevitable additions on Christmas discs that cover a specific era, or only include songs that were commercial successes: the tracks by the Chipmunks, Spike Jones and Elmo & Patsy are almost as tedious as a Kenny G Holiday collection. Fortunately, there are plenty of lesser-known gems here, like Gayla Peevey's bouncy "I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas" and Tom Lehrer's "Christmas Carol," a witty and sharp commentary on Holiday commercialism. This collections spans about 40 years, but the selections generally complement each other, rather than sound out of place. The humor of the material here also spans a wide area, from goofy-voiced tunes for kids to sly, insinuating musical parody. Some of the choices are obvious, but others are wonderfully inexplicable, like "I'm A Christmas Tree" and "I Saw DADDY Kissing Santa Claus." Two of the more recent tracks (from Cheech & Chong and Weird Al Yankovic) are classics that appear (to my knowledge) in this collection only.

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