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Christmas Turkeys

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With at least three NEPA stations playing nothing but Christmas music, it's time for my annual thread on Christmas turkeys. Christmas turkeys come in two flavors: 1. Songs that are really, really bad and 2. Christmas "evergreens" that have long ago turned brown and dropped their needles (songs that have been terribly overplayed for years and years).

Here are my entries:

Category 1: 1. "Christmas Shoes". This morbid, depressing song about a boy trying to buy shoes for his mother (who is on her deathbed on Christmas Eve) is about as welcome during the festive Christmas season as a turd in a bowl of eggnog.

2. Anything by Mannheim Steamroller. Like fruitcake, Mannheim Steamroller appears only during the holidays. Like fruitcake, Mannheim Steamroller's astringent instrumentation is an acquired taste.

Category 2: 1. "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms and other artists. This song wore out its welcome 40 years ago!

2. "Blue Christmas" by Elvis Presley. Were it not for the migration of a lot of this music to CDs, one could almost hear the cue burn at the beginning!

Another selection that is an oddity heading for turkeydom, even though nobody has yet played it here in NEPA, is a version of "Jingle Bells" that I heard several years ago on the Westwood One Adult Standards network. One verse is sung in "Pig Latin"! Ingle-jay ells-bay, ingle-jay ells-bay, ingle-jay all the ay-way, anyone? Who will be the first PD in NEPA-land to add this gem?

Which songs, in your opinion, belong on this list?
 
Will anyone in NEPA play the greatest Christmas song of all time?
"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues!
 
> Which songs, in your opinion, belong on this list?

1. Songs that are really, really bad and..............
Well you know how i feel about Christmas Shoes but the one
song that is truly bad is that cat and mouse thing on KRZ and
Entercom. That should be banned. I see Shoes being about hope
and redemption, the cat and the mouse is just designed to make
us gag.

2. Christmas "evergreens"
> that have long ago turned brown and dropped their needles
> (songs that have been terribly overplayed for years and
> years).
> Little Drummer Boy, any version. First of all, he's out
of place. There was no Ringo at the manger, sorry. Another
song I have a problem with is Dan Fogleberg's Christmas/New
Year's ode to lost love and what might have been. Great, on the
biggest family holiday of the year, the song suggests you second
guess on what life would've been had you married the long haired
hippie chick who bandied the word "spiritual" about as often as
bookies use the phrase "spread". That song is tiresome and
whiney.
Yonkstur
>P.S. Love Jingle Bell Rock and Brenda Lee's "Rockn'Around the
Christmas tree". Never get tired of them.
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> Will anyone in NEPA play the greatest Christmas song of all
> time?
> "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues!
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I heard EZ103 play the version done by the Three Irish Tenors
Merry Christmas Ye'Maggot!
 
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