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Christmas Turkeys

I can remember a joke on a Christmas episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in which Johnny Fever made a comment of something like "And now here's a song that sums up the state of Christmas today," and went into the Singing Dogs. Pretty funny.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ccmfan on 11/27/05 11:10 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> Also did one over "Christmas Rapping" (sp?) by The
> Waitresses.

I'm pretty sure that's "Christmas <a target="_blank" href=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wrapping&db=%2A>Wrapping</a>".
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Re: Christmas Dogs

> > "Faith In Santa" and that Porky Pig song are just
> > unbelievably awful, however.
>
> That's not Porky Pig (Mel Blanc); it just sounds like him.
> "Blue Christmas" is actually by "Seymour Swine and the
> Squealers", and was done by John-Boy and Billy of the
> syndicated Big Show (www.thebigshow.com), based out of WRFX
> in Charlotte, NC. "Seymour Swine" was actually a singer
> named Denny Brownlee, but the laughing in the background is
> John-Boy. It was recorded in 1985 and when it gained
> national attention because of its appearance on the Big
> Show, it was released as a 45 RPM single.
>
> As often is the case with novelty morning-show parody songs,
> I think the laughing in the background is what made it a
> success, not the performance of "Seymour Swine" himself.
>
I once played the Porky Pig Blue Christmas and had a listener call and totally rip me a new one....it was "sacreligious" and "insulting" to the meaning of Christmas! Its not like I played Porky singing "Silent Night." I personally think the Porky version is the funniest thing ever recorded, as opposed to the Elvis original, which is just plain God-Awful, the worst Christmas song ever recorded. And I like Elvis!
 
Re: Christmas Dogs

> I once played the Porky Pig Blue Christmas and had a
> listener call and totally rip me a new one....it was
> "sacreligious" and "insulting" to the meaning of Christmas!
> Its not like I played Porky singing "Silent Night." I
> personally think the Porky version is the funniest thing
> ever recorded, as opposed to the Elvis original, which is
> just plain God-Awful, the worst Christmas song ever
> recorded. And I like Elvis!
>

Odd. The only station I've ever heard it on (being played by anyone other than John Boy and Billy, anyway) was WURL, a small, deeply conservative Southern Gospel station here in Alabama. It was in their regular rotation last year.
 
Re: Christmas Dogs

> > Its not like I played Porky singing "Silent Night." I
> > personally think the Porky version is the funniest thing
> > ever recorded, as opposed to the Elvis original, which is
> > just plain God-Awful, the worst Christmas song ever
> > recorded. And I like Elvis!
> >
>
> Odd. The only station I've ever heard it on (being played
> by anyone other than John Boy and Billy, anyway) was WURL, a
> small, deeply conservative Southern Gospel station here in
> Alabama. It was in their regular rotation last year.
>


What makes it absolutely hysterical is the person in the background who sounds like they're totally losing it. When and/or where was that thing recorded?

KL

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Re: More Songs I Dislike

> The Chanukah Song by Adam Sandler (Heard that one on 105.9
> The River this morning).


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Re: More Songs I Dislike

> > The Chanukah Song by Adam Sandler (Heard that one on 105.9
> > The River this morning).
>
> Oy, you're right about that one. Completely and totally
> annoying.

...Unless you happen to be completely deaf...blind, to I guess, since the lyrics are probably printed somewhere (for the sake of the blind, I pray it hasn't been translated to Braille).

Mildly amusing the first time I heard it...TEN YEARS AGO! Now it's just, as you say, annoying.

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Re: AMEN!

Every time I hear this dog I want to hock up my breakfast into the grille of my Superradio. I hated it when it first came out, hated it when I had to play it, and hate it even more now that it's embedded in singing animatronic Santas at Wal-Mart. Gawd.

And while we're on that subject, a couple of years ago, someone gave my son an animated Christmas tree that sang Jingle Bells for about 2:30 every time he pressed a button. And being 5 years old at the time, he pressed that button ever 2:35 for about two weeks. I couldn't wait until New Years... I destroyed that thing and blamed the dog (I'm probably going to hell for that one).

- Doc

> Not funny, never was.
>
> Like a really lame joke repeated over and over.
>
 
Re: Christmas Dogs

> What makes it absolutely hysterical is the person in the
> background who sounds like they're totally losing it. When
> and/or where was that thing recorded?

Scroll back to my last message within this sub-thread and you'll see the full history of the song.
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