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Cheesiest Holiday Songs on Boston Radio

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notlob

It is inevitable you heard a "cheesy" holiday song played on Boston radio. For the sake of decent music, let's "out" the worst of the cheese. Nominate the worst here. Share the radio station/program host, date and time, and your thoughts why your nominee stinks worse than Limburger.
 
notlob said:
It is inevitable you heard a "cheesy" holiday song played on Boston radio. For the sake of decent music, let's "out" the worst of the cheese. Nominate the worst here. Share the radio station/program host, date and time, and your thoughts why your nominee stinks worse than Limburger.
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There are so many, I don't know where to begin.

Every year on (or around) New Years Day, WMBR pre-empts regular programming for a marathon day and night long special program called Cheese Patrol. The exact date and time of this years edition has not yet been announced, but I'm sure they will be keeping up the tradition, and it will likely be announced on http://www.wmbr.org soon.

While not holiday music, it's a marathon, just for laughs (and/or nausea), of the cheesiest pop music of the '60s, '70s, '80s and beyond as determined by a number of WMBR DJ's who host different hours of this special program. No pop hits are too sacred to be included in "Cheese Patrol". Some folks may find some of their favorites listed!

Last years WMBR "Cheese Patrol" playlist
 
Dude - it's called the "REPLY" button. There is no point in quoting a post in a thread when it is the only post in the thread!

Jesus tapdancing Tebow...
 
I can't stand "I Want A Hippopatumus For Christmas!" And "All I Want For Christmas" by Spike Jones sucks! As does Elmo and Patsy's version of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer!" (Personally, I like the Irish Rovers' version better.)
What else? I can't stand "The 12 Pains Of Christmas" by the Bob Rivers Comedy Group. (In fact, every parody that they do drives me nuts!)
And is there any way to put the WBZ Radio Holiday Players away? Their version of "A Christmas Carol" is horrible! I'd rather have WBZ News Radio 1030 do 24 hours of Christmas music than hear Gary Lapierre yell "Bah, Humbug!"
 
The one about the little boy and the shoes for his mother.......................talk about depressing. Isn't the whole point of the Christmas music to make people feel more happy and festive?
 
DToTheJ said:
Dude - it's called the "REPLY" button. There is no point in quoting a post in a thread when it is the only post in the thread!

Jesus tapdancing Tebow...
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You should report him to the internet police.
 
blackgold said:
I can't stand "I Want A Hippopatumus For Christmas!" And "All I Want For Christmas" by Spike Jones sucks! As does Elmo and Patsy's version of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer!" (Personally, I like the Irish Rovers' version better.)
What else? I can't stand "The 12 Pains Of Christmas" by the Bob Rivers Comedy Group. (In fact, every parody that they do drives me nuts!)
And is there any way to put the WBZ Radio Holiday Players away? Their version of "A Christmas Carol" is horrible! I'd rather have WBZ News Radio 1030 do 24 hours of Christmas music than hear Gary Lapierre yell "Bah, Humbug!"
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you beat me to the punch on the Bob Rivers stuff. And, believe it or not, I've still never heard "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" (the Elmo and Patsy version). And I'm planning on keeping it that way.
 
SonicAl said: ...believe it or not, I've still never heard "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" (the Elmo and Patsy version).
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S-A, you live in a cave or under a rock(where radio reception is bad)?! Never heard this tune??
Looking at your profile, I seen you are, as I am, a record collecting nerd. Then you might find it interesting that the original version(on Elmo and Patsy Records) is slightly different from the version that gets play today.
Make your life complete. Give it a listen!
 
ddsparxx said:
Agreed with BRNout about the donkey song. It sounded stupid!
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I hear elderly Italian-American types requesting it all the time on stations in heavily Italian Connecticut when they put callers on the air. I gather they still find it cute even after so many seasons of airplay.
 
Not Christmas but remember Joe Dolce's "Shaddup You Face", a top 40 hit? Whatsammatta you, hey, got-a-no respect. An Italian-American using the stereotypical Italian-American accent for comedy,
much as Don Novello did when he played the Vatican newspaper's gossip columnist, Father Guido
Sarducci.

Another Italian-inspired Christmas song, which my mother and grandmother loved (my mom was
born Irish-American but adopted by an Italian-American couple): Nat King Cole's Buon Natale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F1_ZHcDl_c
Far away across the sea in sunny Italy there's a quaint little town, not a clock has been wound for
over a century' they don't know the time or year...and this is the reason the Christmas season is celebrated all year.
 
CrankyYankee said:
SonicAl said: ...believe it or not, I've still never heard "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" (the Elmo and Patsy version).
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S-A, you live in a cave or under a rock(where radio reception is bad)?! Never heard this tune??
Looking at your profile, I seen you are, as I am, a record collecting nerd. Then you might find it interesting that the original version(on Elmo and Patsy Records) is slightly different from the version that gets play today.
Make your life complete. Give it a listen!
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LOL.. I worked in music retail for 12 years. I've tried to avoid hearing any sort of mainstream Christmas music since--call it post-traumatic retail disorder. And the only radio I listen to these days is sports talk, along with the occasional political show. I'm sure I've heard it at one time or another but didn't realize it. Happy holidays! Back to the Sonic Overload cave where I'll be working on my own holiday music show today...
 
Some songs I played that weren't on ODS or ROR
James Brown--Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Yr
Rash of Stabbings--A Christmas Song
Native Tongue--Do You Hear What I Hear
Billy West--Christmas in Kenmore Sq
Stompers--All I Want for Christmas is a rock n roll guitar
 
I have just been greatly traumatized.
WODS just played a Village People Christmas song.
No clue on the name, but it was done to the YMCA tune.
 
I've heard them play it before in past years, it's N-O-E-L or S-A-N-T-A or something indeed to the tune of YMCA. Hey, disco songs are no stranger to the WODS playlist as the 70s/early 80s were the heyday
of Village People, Donna Summer, Lipps Inc. etc.
 
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