Month: August 2021

Felice Avian: negation

Then there’s the grounding of the flying reindeer. No, no, not tonight of all nights!!

Fiery boogie woogie from Sue Keller worries “My Reindeer Don’t Like to Fly.” Excuses, excuses, a five, six, seven, eight!

Cornball kiddie assembly singalong “Why Can’t All Reindeer Fly” doesn’t tread new ground. But you can keep the beat.

Rick Brown calypsos a dreamy downer “Santa Couldn’t Fly on Christmas Eve.” It was one of those Dickens ghosts making you appreciate the world you didn’t care about until it was gone. Or, was it a Capra angel?

Felice Avian: tribulation

I’m not saying flying is easy for a reindeer on a tight schedule at Christmas… in fact, i might single out just the cool parody songs about tough times over firmament high.

Tremors goes BLUE ALERT with their messy “Reindeer” about all the stress on their fuzzy shoulders.

Drop a Grand portrays Santa as man stuck in a grind (in the air) with “Reindeer Love.” No actual romance here, just a vanishing point thirty thousand feet up.

Felice Avian: machination

The robot uprising will not be televised. ‘Cuz the screens are all robots! Can Santa’s reindeer be updated with machines?

Rappy McRapperson presents Wing as an I-dare-you-to-listen execrable novelty smash: “Santa Claus on a Helicopter.” Dance, helicopter, dance! Uncategorizable.

Plenty o’ ditties claim Santa drives a cool jalopy, some even fly. But The Beach Boys elevate the subject with “Santa’s Got an Airplane.” Soaring pop of the novelty brand.

Felice Avian: subrogation

Does it have to be a reindeer? That flies? For Christmas?

Patsy Trigg notices something unusual around the barn–missing reindeer! Kidsong country (great slide guitar) cutely renames the replacement twirly tailed ones in the talented “It’s a Merry Christmas when Pigs Fly.” They’re like eagles apparently.

We may have seen kangaroos and horses and plenty other animals already bringing presents on the ol’ blog. But let’s wind it up with a prog rock poem “Fly on a Christmas Dragon” by Robby Grant. Kidsong chaos (and fire breathing) ensues.

Felice Again: transformation

Let’s cut out the middle deer and just become Santa’s magical sleigh pullers!

Some kidsong perpetrators are so deadly serious I worry what lasting psychological effects result from their ministrations. Willie Sterba’s fully (electronic) symphonic attempt to “Fly Like a Reindeer” is scary and uplifting both. Fade out to zenith.

Bored of holiday celebration? Try to see “Through the Eyes of a Reindeer” like the Tigglemeisters. Their sweet show tune is at least a creative writing exercise, at most madness.

Felice Avian: participation

What’s better than seeing the reindeer fly? Saddling up and going along!

From the ‘Madeline and Santa’ soundtrack, the precocious girl admits in kidsong “I’ve Always Dreamed of Flying

with Santa.” Privilege has its rewards.

Pete the Elf shared with me (oh say about forty years ago) Little Jerry and “I’m Gonna Learn to Ride a Reindeer.” Holy moly was kidsong different back in the day.

These days songs are ironically rude and adorably foul mouthed. BLUE ALERT for Kyle Dunnigan (feat. Craig and Kurt Pullin) as an arrogant CW singer introducing his challenged brother to sing about the “Honkeytonk Reindeer.” At some point there may be riding (and dinosaurs)….

Overplayed novelty Christmas music may suffer from sequelitis. But “Santa’s Letting Grandma Fly the Xmas Sleigh” is the garage punk remonstration you did not expect. They claim a lotta fun. You’ll see.