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We’ve compiled 25 Christmas carols that just shouldn’t have been made. Some fall into the category of intentional satire by the artists, while some do not. We mean no disrespect to Christmas, or the carol itself. Click below to listen along to 40 minutes of great entertainment. Enjoy and Merry Christmas from Tim, Adam and the KYMN staff!
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List of songs (in no order):
I Am Santa Claus (Bob Rivers, Sang to “Iron Man”)
Frosty the Snowman (The Brady Bunch – Cindy)
Up on the housetop (Raffi)
Santa Claus is coming to town (Liberace)
Santa Claus loves Country (The Gaylords)
Holiday (Men at Large)
Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum (Jimmy Buffett)
Christmas Congo (Cyndi Lauper)
Christmas Macarena (Rio Del Sol)
Dominick the Donkey (Lou Monte)
Funky, Funky, Christmas (NKOTB, New Kids on the Block)
Please Daddy, Don’t get drunk on Christmas (John Denver).
Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto (James Brown)
Come on Christmas, Christmas Come on (Ringo)
If it Doesn’t Snow on Christmas (Joe Pesci)
Away in the Manger (Brady Bunch – Marcia)
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (The Chipmunks)
Silver Bells (Gary Puckett)
Run, Run, Run (Happiness Emporium)
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Twisted Sister, Twisted Christmas)
Jingle Bells (Barry Manilow and Expose’)
Everybody Knows the Claus (Hanson)
The Christmas Shoes (NewSong)
Jolaball Meo Dengsa (3 songs in Icelandic)
*Thanks to Terri Lindgren, KYMN Office Manager, for helping with the bad-carol discovery process!
That was an awesome show!
Thanks Quintin.
The last selection is from an Icelandic album called “Jólaball með Dengsa og félögum”. Without Icelandic characters, it’s “Jolaball med Dengsa og felogum”. That’s Icelandic for “Christmas Ball (Dance) with Dengsa and company”.
Icelandic is the language most closely related to Old Norse, the language the Vikings spoke,
The album was put out by Þórhallur “Laddi” Sigurðsson, a famous Icelandic entertainer and comedian. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laddi)
The album is kind of a children’s album. And a couple of the tunes you played are immediately recognizable as traditional Nordic Christmas tunes.
I had a feeling you’d be able supply some background info on that selection.