Novelty Christmas Music

Humorous Holiday Music

My brother really used to love parody musicians, like Weird Al Yankovic, and Dr. Demento the novelty record collector. Cleaning up recently, I came across his extensive collection and found Dr. Demento's novelty Christmas CD. My daughter has been requesting it daily; her favorite songs are "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" and, of course, "The Christmas Song" by Alvin and The Chipmunks. :)

I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

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Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Christmas Novelty CD

Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Christmas Novelty CD

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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."

Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Christmas Song

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Holidays in Dementia

Holidays in Dementia

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Dr. Demento is an archivist elf of the first order. Testament to his timeworn ways is this collection of fractured holidays tunes and his earlier The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time. The good Doc showcases 17 tunes here, although the collection could do without nearly a quarter of those, including Joseph Spence's oddity "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and the Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping." The latter is a pop-rap tune that sounds pretty tame in the cracked company of the inimitable Bob Rivers ("The Twelve Pains of Christmas"), Spike Jones (sending up New Year's resolutions), and Father Guido Sarducci ("Santa's Lament"). Then there's James & Kling's perverse "A Terrorist Christmas," as well as a couple of loopy Hanukkah tunes, one a rap number by Doc Mo She and the other from Gefilte Joe & the Fish.

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What's your favorite novelty Christmas song?

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  • sandyspider Jan 4, 2011 @ 4:00 pm | delete
    Love this novelty music.

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