Christmas Shoes is truly nauseating, isn't it? I'm assuming that's the sickeningly maudlin one about the kid who doesn't quite have enough money to buy shoes for his dying (dead?) mother for Christmas? I've been told that that song actually spawned several made for TV movies.

I think the way for new artists to 'remake' classics is not to screw around with melody, rhythm, pace, and so on, but simply to rerecord them as true to the original as they can, simply in their own voices. To honor the originals, not mess them up.

The housemate's 'naughty list' also includes 'Baby It's Cold Outside', in either the original or remakes, because she feels (and after listening to it recently, I agree) it has a pervy side to it, and is a sort of 'holiday date rape' song.

You must watch this. And I agree with the, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," one. That one seems to have just popped up in the last decade like the, "Hippopotamus for Christmas," one seems to have (I heard a jazzed up version of it on the drive, which is what started this rant).

Somehow I had never heard of that song before reading this thread. How lucky can one girl be?

And I'm so glad you posted this.

for date rape.

I prefer this song for the season instead.

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I can't imagine Mele Kalikimaka by anyone but Der Bingle, although I see Bette Milder took a stab at it.

Please. My annual holiday music pet peeve.

Have you maybe considered instrumentals?

That was one I was going to list but decided not to. I didn't know they did a version.

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I'LL DO THAT ON YOUR OWN LAWN; yes INDEED

AKA "Santa Baby." Eartha Kitt could almost pull this stinker off. No one since then has been vixenish to come close, instead of Vargas Girl they sound like every grasping gold digger out there who has auditioned for trophy wife and is thinking of ways the child support check can be spent on her, instead of those crummy kids of his.

program. I think it is a shame that they are not exposed to so many of the songs that made Christmas so much fun when I was growing up. Now they hear SpongeBob singing them his way. No wonder Christmas is nothing like it used to be.

...as does "Dominick the Christmas Donkey".

Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms, and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee.