When Bob and Doug McKenzie (SCTV's Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) got hold of the song 20 years later, they gave it a Canadian spin with gifts including four pounds of back-bacon and a beer. Nick's greatest gifts to song parodists like Allan Sherman, whose single “The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas” name-checks such popular 1963 presents as an automatic vegetable slicer (that works when you see it on television but not when you get it home) and a Japanese transistor radio. The 18th century carol “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” is one of St. Originally recorded in 1955, the song hit the chart again in 1971, and has been a seasonal staple ever since. I guess you could also call The Singing Dogs' “Jingle Bells” a “funny voice” record it's four canines (named Dolly, Pearl, Caesar, and King) whose barking in different pitches was rearranged to fit the 19th century holiday song. The late 1940s also gave us Harry Stewart, a multi-foreign-accented comic best known as “Scandahoovian” Yogi Yorgesson, whose song “I Just Go Nuts At Christmas” has sold more than a million copies over the years. The band's 28-year-old trumpeter George Rock supplied the voice of the lisping little kid. A funny voice also paid off for Spike Jones & His City Slickers, whose “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” topped the pop chart in 1948.
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The three lovable rodents have since become a media empire, with a TV series and several feature films to their credit. The brainchild of Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., who'd had a previous speeded-up-vocal hit with “Witch Doctor,” “The Christmas Song” hit the chart in late 1958, spending weeks at No.1. His aptly titled THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS NOVELTY CD OF ALL TIME leads off with The Chipmunks, and we'll give Alvin, Simon and Theodore the pole position here, too.
Demento, for curating some of the craziest holiday discs ever. As we continue to revisit Rhino collections from Christmas past, we must tip our Santa hat to Barry Hansen, aka Dr.
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