Bobby is short for BOB which is short for Rob which is short for Robert, in short. [We are ignoring Dylan, Wills, Marley, Cratchit, and Squarepants here.]
One of my favorite Bob songs is Trout Fishing in America’s “Bob and Bob“, the identical snowflakes. Impossible you say? Folk kidsong.
“Bobby Wants a Puppy Dog for Christmas” has made a British novelty appearance on the blog before. But what if Merle Haggard done it? [Okay, Bowling for Soup outplayed both.]
Less happily “Bobby Got a BB Gun for Christmas” in an amateur pop number from Todds Holiday Greeting Disk. Chaos ensues. DUCK!
“Bobby Baxton’s Christmas Heater” by Bobby Braxton enshrines a craps game in the snow with AI lousy country drawling.
Vista Blue may have made a mistake thinking Santa is “Bobby Kringle“. Hard rocking celebration.
With a similar misidentification, Colin Buchanan & Greg Champion hail “Here Comes Christmas Bob“, Aussie folk pop about a holiday scalawag.
Perhaps “Santa’s Evil Twin, Bob” by Epsom Primary School explains it all. Kid rap.
Well, in “Tailgate Christmas” Bobby’s in red asking girls to sit on him. Tawdry country from Chance Hunter, Jeff Bialk,
With Bobby (and Jenny) shopped for, Riders in the Sky ask the family matriarch for what they want for themselves. “Just Put a Ribon in Your Hair” is slow jazz with an agenda. Square flirting.
Neighbors Bob and Betty add to the malaise in Robbie Williams’s “Yeah! It’s Christmas!” It’s big band bitchin’.
“christmas bob!” by Cally and Casey saves the uking day! I guess. I can’t make out much from this basement folk.
Time for some Motown and “Peace For Christmas (Remastered)“. Chuck Alden funks us the possibility, or at least to Bobby from Boston. Sounds like Bobby’s got sent to ‘Nam, gang. Let us pray.
The Weeklings use measured hep cat rockabilly to assure us everything’s gonna be okay “Christmas Day“. [‘Ceptin’ Bobby, who didn’t get no muffin.] Straight from the ‘fridge, dad.
Lard Dog & The Band of Shy retro rock their party with a boss tune, an alien blob, a Christmas platypus named Bobby (with his ‘not nog’), and a “Crangleberry Christmas Tree“. Awesome.