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Most Annoying Christmas Songs

centerfreqradio said:
"Santa Baby"....Any version. It sounds porno to me..I'm surprised it gets airplay.....Was it ever banned from the airwaves in the past....

BTW.............Merry Christmas to all............
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Probably Eartha Kitt's version got kicked to the curb by a few stations back in the day.....Some may have banned it just from a racial standpoint....
Personally, i like the song.....it mocks corporate greed that becomes more noticeable during the Holiday season...
"So....hurry down the chimney tonight....!"
 
TheBigA said:
Apparently the song was banned in the 50s:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-santa-baby-censorship-20171228-story.html
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It was the mid/late 1950s, the era of Father Knows Best. Anything that was considered "controversial" had a good chance of being banned. Such an attitude may have been the reason Spike Jones toned down his act by the time he released his Christmas album in 1956.

Stan Freberg's classic Green Chri$tma$ (1958) was another one that was banned for "blasphemy." Not by religious leaders (Freberg was a devout Christian, BTW), but by advertising and broadcast sales executives for trashing their "sales efforts" at Christmastime. DJ's were threatened by their station's sales managers with being fired if they played the record.

Freberg, of course, became a legend in the commercial world, but Green Chri$tma$ was still banned from radio for years thereafter.
 
I had wondered before about if Freberg was a Christian because of Green Christmas and I had also read that he didn't do ads for tobacco or alcohol. I discovered him through Dr. Demento and had been a fan ever since.
 
I just happened to watch the Halloween episode of "Perfect Harmony" and the choir on that show was going around caroling, and getting on people's nerves.

The songs included "Silent Fright", "Do You Fear What I Fear" and "O Little Ghost Town of Bethlehem".
 
No one should remix Dean Martin. iHeart showed the title as "Jingle Bells (remix)" but sounds of outer space should not be a part of Christmas music. Period.
 
oldies76 said:
Terrible rendition. I rarely, if ever listen to these "synth" type orchestrations of Christmas music. The only one I like from TSO, is "Christmas Canon" and the only one from Mannheim Steamroller I enjoy is "We Three Kings".
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I agree about TSO but did you listen to more than the introduction? The heavy metal guitar is the problem.

I don't know about the Mannheim Steamroller song. They do a great "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" that sounds like it probably would have when the song was first written. "Deck the Halls" I tolerate.
 
Oldie919 said:
Probably Eartha Kitt's version got kicked to the curb by a few stations back in the day.....Some may have banned it just from a racial standpoint....
Personally, i like the song.....it mocks corporate greed that becomes more noticeable during the Holiday season...
"So....hurry down the chimney tonight....!"
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Thanks Oldie919. I had a feeling back then that would banned it. People were way more sensitive and the stations did not want to take a chance getting flooded with calls..
 
centerfreqradio said:
Hi Vchimpanzee.The Loooooong dragged out words in her tunes.The same with some others too ..On the otherhand .She's is eye candy in the meantime...LOL......

BTW I do enjoy her Christmas album...
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Well, whatever she does, I like it. I've never thought she was that pretty to look at, but maybe early in her career she was.
 
And Mannheim Steamroller did it again. I've never heard "Faeries", which is what the iHeart web site said it was, but I don't want to again.

The five seconds or so that I heard was "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", so that might have been the first time I heard anything from "The Nutcracker" on a radio station this season.
 
So many bad versions of "Carol of the Bells". I know it's just my opinion but there is a certain way I like Christmas music to sound. John Tesh is the latest.

Hard to believe there are recordings I haven't heard until now.
 
vchimpanzee said:
And Mannheim Steamroller did it again. I've never heard "Faeries", which is what the iHeart web site said it was, but I don't want to again.

The five seconds or so that I heard was "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", so that might have been the first time I heard anything from "The Nutcracker" on a radio station this season.
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Classical radio can't get enough of "The Nutcracker" from the first of December right through the day itself. I'd rather hear the traditional carols or Handel or Bach's works, but there's no denying the universal appeal of Tchaikovsky at Christmastime. Doesn't mean I have to listen to it every time, though. Fortunately. this area has three OTA classical alternatives in addition to SiriusXM's classical channel.
 
I've noticed several stores are still playing Christmas music including the Lowe's store where I work. I love Christmas and Christmas music, but it's passed. But I guess some stores will still play it until New Year's day and possibly through next weekend. When does Muzak shut down their holiday channels?
 
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