Novelty Christmas Songs

After several weeks of being in “full Christmas mode” on 94.9 WHOM, we’ve gotten a sense of those Christmas songs that cause the phones to go CRAZY!

In almost every case, it’s the novelty tunes that burn up the request lines. Not sure why this is the case, but the offbeat, funny and silly holiday songs are getting the lion’s share of song suggestions.

Although this is not scientific, I would rank the Top Requests on 94.9 WHOM to be the following:

1) “Dominic The Donkey”-Lou Monte (yes, the Italian Christmas Donkey is still tops!)
2) “12 Days of Christmas”-Straight No Chaser (this was #1 last year-and is VERY
close to the ass in first place)
3) “12 Pains Of Christmas”-Bob Rivers (this DJ from Baltimore hit pay dirt years
ago with this one-now a novelty “classic”)
4) “The Chipmunk Song”-Alvin & The Chipmunks (yeah, it’s from the 60’s, but as
popular as ever due to the Chipmunk movies)
5) “12 Gifts of Christmas”-Alan Sherman (this too is from the 60’s-and although the
“gifts” may be a bit outdated, i.e. transistor radio—it is still funny!)
6) “Snoopy’s Christmas”-Royal Guardsmen (almost NOT a novelty song-gets its
share of calls)
7) “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”-Thurl Ravenscroft (deep throat scores a hit
thanks to the classic TV show)
8) “We Need A Little Christmas”-The Muppets (again, aside from some puppet
voices, this fits in fine with everything else)

A new entry is the latest from Straight No Chaser. It’s called “The Christmas Can-Can”!
Here is the video, which is also featured at http://www.949whom.com/:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZveAyEMWJ0

Of course, the above list doesn’t begin to cover the Christmas novelty tunes. There are others we will stick in there, but the short list below tends to generate more COMPLAINTS than requests. In no particular order, they are:

1) “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”-Elmo & Patsy (Grandpa, broken up by
the tragedy, is still drinking beer and watching football, but thankfully now believes in Santa. Nice.)
2) “Jingle Bells”-The Singing Dogs (a minute and a half of dogs barking-after a couple of listens, you might prefer a German Shepard chewing on your leg for a minute and a half than to hear it again)
3) “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”-Spike Jones (Chipmunks do an annoying version of this too)
4) “I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas”-Gayla Peevey (just imagine house-breaking that critter)


So, I hope you’re not TOO disappointed that the short list above hardly ever makes it on the air!

And, a little “program note”: 94.9 WHOM will be playing 100% Christmas music COMMERCIAL FREE from noon on Thursday, December 24th right through Christmas Day! Yes, “Home For The Holidays” will be in it’s 20th year this Christmas-our little gift to you!!!
Listen over the air—or stream it LIVE on the website at http://www.949whom.com/!

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Merry Christmas!!