Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is just nearly about the only version of that song you will hear this time of year on most radio stations and in shopping centers. I don't know what's wrong with Gene's other Christmas songs that keep them off the radio and makes stations want to play that song over and over again, but I think I am figuring it out. Today's first offer is "Where Did My Snowman Go?" This is a fun little song, until you listen to it and I mean listen to it. [...]
Eight reindeer. Eight ORIGINAL reindeer. They worked with Santa for God knows how long just fine until Rudolph came along with his freakish mutated genes in 1939 . Sure, they all cheered and Rudolph apparently went down in history, but what about the ORIGINAL EIGHT??? Where was their limelight of fame and glory? It seemed the Sandpipers would be the ones to answer the call. While I don't know the exact year of the record, they did put out a record sometime in their career called "Santa's Other Reindeer." [...]
Today's featured track is a rare Christmas song by Blondie. It appeared on a few flexidiscs (what a GREAT format that yielded some of the best rare trax of the 80s!) in England's Flexipop magazine in the early to mid 1980s. As far as I know, it's never been issued on CD from what I've been able to uncover. Enjoy. And since I am on a retro 80's kick today, I will also feature one of my favorite tracks from that time period that really captures what Christmas back then was all about...Timbuk 3's "All [...]
Christmas music was never too interesting to me. Hearing "Jingle Dogs," "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," and "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" were about as extensive as my exposure to novelty Christmas songs got. Most of my exposure to Christmas music was rather limited, and uninteresting. Then something happened around the turn of the century: radio stations started to play Christmas music from about the middle of November all the way through Christmas. But it made me wonder why they kept on playing the same songs over and over again. [...]
Twelve Months of Christmas
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
