Worst Christmas song

On November 1, six SiriusXM channels began playing Christmas music full-time and will continue to do so through.....well, through Christmas Day. Every year, various writers and websites put out a list of the all-time worst Christmas songs. Here are two such lists:

www.dailydot.com/upstream/worst-christmas-songs/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4416509.html

What Christmas songs do Sirius Buzz members loathe? What Christmas songs are we really sick of hearing? For me, it's a tie between Feliz Navidad and Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. As soon as I hear the opening notes of either song, I change the station.

This is a poll. Please vote for your favorite -- or unfavorite -- worst Christmas song. Feel free to discuss.

I get tired of hearing "Feliz Navidad" because it's just the same few words over and over and the music doesn't even sound Christmassy. Another really bad song is "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth."

I was looking at lists of bad Christmas songs and I found what has to be the all-time worst title. I haven't heard the song -- and I don't want to hear it. It's by the Little Stinkers and it came out in 2007. The title is so disgusting and offensive, I'll have to censor one of the words: I F••••d On Santa's Lap (Now Christmas Is Gonna Stink For Me). Ai-yi-yi!

Today's Daily News has an article about the five worst Christmas songs of all time, as selected by the editors of Bay Area News Group. Their choices: Dominick The Donkey by Lou Monte, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, Bruce Springsteen's "really bad" rendition of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Santa Baby -- "The lyrics celebrate pure greed" -- and John Denver's Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk On Christmas.

This thread has a poll and plenty of room for comments. Where is everyone?

"Hey, whaddya say there, Ralphie Boy! You're a sweet kid!" Here is one of the strangest Christmas songs I've ever heard: Santa & The Doodle-Li-Boop by The Honeymooners co-star Art Carney. It reached #24 on the pop chart in 1954.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZrgZv1cG5I

I heard another Christmas song which is really stupid. I don't know who sings it but it's somebody trying to sound like Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas." I'm sure it's offensive to people who have stuttering problems.

Channel 58, Country Christmas, just played Garth Brooks' Belleau Wood, which tells the story of a Christmas truce among French, German and British soldiers during World War I. One German soldier began singing Silent Night and then, one by one, all the soldiers climbed out of the trenches and joined in. Did such a truce really happen? Well, yes -- but not at Belleau Wood. Here are the details:

Was there really a Christmas truce declared in 1914?

http://kezj.com/was-there-really-a-c...d-war-i-video/

I was listening to that channel tonight and heard a Garth Brooks song called "Ugly Christmas Sweater." It was about meeting a beautiful girl in an ugly sweater at an office party. It is a very strange song.

Here is a Christmas song that doesn't sound the least bit Christmassy. In 2009, Craig Morgan had a #4 country hit with Bonfire and he also recorded a Christmas version of the song. The Country Christmas channel just played it. Listen at your own risk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDsB4PNeMI

Channel 4, Holiday Traditions, just played Tommy Dorsey's 1935 recording of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Victor 25145) featuring vocalists Cliff Weston and Edyth Wright. Weston spent only a few months with Dorsey's band. He was the vocalist on the 1936 number-one hit Alone, a song from the Marx Brothers' movie A Night At The Opera. Wright sang on 27 of Dorsey's chart hits, 1935-39. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, however, failed to chart. Here 'tis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0njr4YWmAQY

In 2011, Phil Vassar recorded his first Christmas album in a single day. The album, Noel, included Merry Christmas Darling, which the Country Christmas channel just played.

Richard Carpenter had attended Cal State Long Beach and sung in the choir led by Frank Pooler, head of the choral department. In 1969, Richard's sister Karen took music lessons from Pooler. In 1970, Richard composed the music for a song Pooler had written. It was Merry Christmas Darling and it became a number-one Christmas hit for the Carpenters in 1970. Billboard did not include Christmas songs on the Hot 100 in 1970. If they had included such songs, Merry Christmas Darling would definitely had topped the chart. Here is Vassar's version:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vYj8U7G80U

We have a new candidate for Worst Christmas Song. William Shatner's upcoming Christmas album is sure to be every bit as bad as Has Been, Seeking Major Tom and Ponder The Mystery.

William Shatner teams with Henry Rollins for a ridiculous take on Jingle Bells
Los Angeles Times, Sep 21 2018 1:00 PM

William Shatner, never one to shy away from an opportunity to confuse, has announced the arrival of his first holiday album, Shatner Claus, with a raucous rendition of Jingle Bells. Typically ridiculous, the version features Shatner working through adapted verses and Rollins moving through the chorus. Rollins does his part with the same gym-shorted energy he employed while belting out his old band Black Flag’s My War — except he’s celebrating a one-horse open sleigh instead of annihilation. Shatner Claus finds Shatner duetting with Judy Collins, Brad Paisley, Iggy Pop, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and others. The album arrives October 26.

Audio: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...htmlstory.html

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Originally Posted by Penguin

I heard another Christmas song which is really stupid. I don't know who sings it but it's somebody trying to sound like Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas." I'm sure it's offensive to people who have stuttering problems.

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I should have written this eight months ago but better late than never, I suppose. Denny Brownlee is a comedy writer, voice actor and movie actor living in Nashville. In November 1984 Brownlee recorded the stuttering Blue Christmas, with Billy Lynn on guitar and John Isley producing, in the studio of WBCY in Charlotte. The recording was played on John and Billy's morning show. It became so popular -- don't ask me why! -- that a year later Brownlee released it as a single. The artist was shown as "Seymour Swine and the Squealers." Th-th-that's all, folks!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlaBn4v2e1c