Part four is (supposedly) funny stuff.
You want silly??!! Joey Slater looks to the midyear and avers that Christmas can still be felt. “JULY or Just Put some Bells on It” is indie rock with a point. But weird.
Okay, we’re avoiding actual ‘Jingle Bells’ melodies, but i have to hear Rick Moyer’s Star Trek fun “Klaxon Bells” one more time.
‘Silver Bells’ gets the mock up from Snook in “Swingin Bells.” Urban reproval.
Kidtime! Disney creatures share in “From All of Us to All of You,” originally a Jimminy Cricket Christmas greeting from the ’50s. This jazz band number revels in the bells. A lot of bells.
Sarah Winter seems to have taken the chorus of that Snoopy/Red Baron Christmas song and made their own “Christmas Bells” repetition. Kinda cool.
Jeff Dunham’s Christmas special finale “When Santa Comes to Town” is not the usual acerbic wit he cuts with. Instead it reeks of 1980s Looney Toons reconstructed TV, slick but hollow. Bells in the chorus, but yawn.
More merry, The Christmas Jug Band do what they do to celebrate Santa’s arrival. Bells will ring, they declare, “When the Red Sled Comes.” Hep-some.
The Superions get suggestive with their strip club jazz “Jingle Those Bells.” Get your singles out.
The Skivvies (who perform in their underwear) mashup mod pop and carols in the odd “Bells Bells Bells.” Give it a tinkle.
Parody perfectionists, The Withers lay out some “Jingle Jingle Jingle” for your edutainment.
The Benefit try out “Sleigh Bells” in a different context… doesn’t work. Still the Winter Holidays. Funny.
Oddly evocative, “The Sleighbell Museum” from The Non Traditionals paints a picture of a fantasy place we will never see with bossa nova soft pop.
Fed up, yet? The Rattlesankes garage the pain with “Christmas Bells won’t Stop Ringing.” Crescendo and out.
