Back in the 1950s, people were worried that Christmas was becoming “too commercialized.” We’re sure lucky that didn’t happen.
Tom Lehrer, A Christmas Carol
Stan Freberg, Green Christmas
music
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou!
John Legend and Stephen Colbert, Nutmeg. Ladies, Mr. John Legend wants to nog your egg.
(This one is for Adam Schlesinger, another early victim of COVID-19. Thank you, Adam, for all the music.)
Don’t we know archaic barrel?
Yogi Yorgessen, I Was Santa Claus at the School House (for the P.T.A.)
We had this on a 78 when I was a kid and every year my dad would play it and laugh till tears ran down his cheeks.
Alley-ga-roo!
Christmas the cowboy way. With yodelling.
Cauliflower
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, Christmas (And Dad Wants Her Back). Should Dad get his wish?
Swaller dollar
For John Prine, who loved Christmas and died of COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic. Geez, I miss him.
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley
Gayla Peevey, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. Though it’s been said many times, many ways, some girls just don’t want rhinoceroses.
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Robert Earl Keen, Merry Christmas From the Family. Because it’s just not Christmas without a can of fake snow.
With Boston Charlie
Patty Surbey & the Canadian V.I.P.s – (I Want) A Beatle For Christmas. Dammit, Santa, she said Ringo, not bingo.
Deck us all
Once again this goes out, with tidings of comfort and joy, to the Mickleblog.
Nyuck nyuck nyuck and ho ho ho.
Rannygazoo 