Author: douglove1225

Andirons

Let’s just shout out Yea! Santa! Chimney!

The Haystack Cookies apply hair metal to “Slide On Down That Chimney, Santa!” It’s positively Xmas.

Red Oak Mini Singers choir up the demand: “Down Down Down the Chimney.” Pushy, but it’s churchy pushy. Please don’t die!

Élan Vital turns up prog rock for the party anthem “Down the Chimney.” Everything’s shouted, so IT’S ALL GOOD!!

Cuul Music raps when perhaps he shouldn’t for the surprising “It’s Christmas Time.” See when Santa is in the sky, perhaps the fireplace SHOULDN’T be so bright….

Dave Mansueto (feat. Lord Grunge) garage the parang for “Down De Chimney.” It’s a hands high, hip sway, voices loud good time.

Inner Hearth

Get on with it! Santa, hit the bricks!

Johnny Awesome and the Elves hard metal “Comin’ Down the Chimney Tonight” with a simple HO! HO!–HO! HO!–HO! HO! Let gravity take its course, St. Nick!

Cosimo sirens “Down The Chimney” as a hurry up and get to me missive for Ol’ Red. This syncopated pop insists rather aggressively.

“Santa, I Have One Request to Make” countries The Jolliest Elf (Tyra Madison) and it’s about that chimney mess he’s gonna make. Wait, are sooty footprints a problem? Do i need a vacuum?

Cabana Man tropically teases “Come on Out da Chimney.” Careful, a watched pot belly never toils.

“Get on Down That Chimney” funks out Holidelic. Badunkadunk. To. The. Point.

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‘Dr.’ Bob Blake stumbles over the rhythm machine for his “Santa’s Comin’ Down the Chimney.” It’s not quite ‘O Susana,’ but it’s pablum nonetheless.

Easy listening from The Ohio City Singers half-asleep wondering who’s been “Down My Chimney Tonight.” I’m sleepy as well now.

Steve Weeks lounges up his easy listening to ask “Who Slid Down the Chimney?” Yeah, there’s a Ba-bee or two in there.

The Elfish Presleys sink to Elvis level with the retro rock question “Will Santa Come down the Chimney?” It’s only an orphan asking.

Ashpit

Hey, kids! Look to the skies! Or, if you’re indoors, look to the chimney! It’s Xmas!

“Santa’s Coming Down the Chimney” is ‘O Susana’ from The Golden Orchestra. If you were a kid, you’d like it. Raffi tries this, too. Unplugged!

The Land Band (a dad with kids) welcome the Red Express with their “Down the Chimney” pop kidsong. Pretty straightforward.

Gill Henry Durant raps about being a kid and needing that peek up “The Chimney.” Doubt dissolves with visual evidence. Or was it all a dream?

Ashpit Door

Kids like to stare at fireplaces (don’t we all?) in order to see the wonders of physics, the source of hearth and home, and the magic of Christmas.

I don’t enjoy posting songs that i can’t credit, but this antique tale of Santa setting the house and himself on fire with an electric train set as sang by an adorable tike sells itself. Pete the Elf shared this number, i’ll refer to as “Flew Right Up the Chimbley.” Thanks, Pete. Now, who is this?

“There’s Someone in the Chimney” is more Plank Road Publishing from the prodigious Terese Jennings. This is elementary school assembly stuff, with a nice slice of humor (Land shark!).

“The Chimney Sweep X-Mas Song” from Daniel Abendstern is cockeyed enough to need subtitles. Neither is it joyous even for kidsong; working man’s seen it all, yaknow.

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (feat. Kenny Gardner and the Lombardo Trio) take us to a 1951 kiddie wonderland of orchestration with “He’ll be Coming Down the Chimney.” A bit cha cha, a bit frightening.

Insistent backbeat informs the rock of the kidsong “Down My Chimney” from Alder H. Linden. Santa’s got some trouble and needs to show ID. Sporty as well as amusing. And it’s an encore.

Chimney

Why a fire duct? Well, Clement Clarke Moore’s famous 1822 poem ‘An Account of a Visit from Saint Nicholas’ goes into some detail about Santa’s chimney travel and sooty clothes and this has informed our lore for almost 200 Xmases. That first Saint Nicholas from Turkey probably dropped coins down the flue back in the 300s as acts of Xian charity. The Christmas witch from Italy certainly did some smokehole commuting; in fact medieval, mischief-making myth-types came and went that way for some centuries–for good and for ill. All of which inspired Washington Irving, in his A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker, to describe Santa dropping goodies down the fireplace chute (but making his way through there personally for the particularly good boys’n’girls) a decade or two BEFORE ‘Twas the Night Before.

Anyways–

Encore time! Joel Kopischke’s been gone too long from here so lets him back his his titular entry from his second great Xmas parody album “Ground Control to Santa Claus.” The spooky ending is the chimney part.

Let’s try something new. Nicholas Markos folk rocks “Chimney Sneak” to the tune of outing that jack-in-the-box joker. Catchy stuff.

Matt Farley is most welcome back to the blog as The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man with “The Chimney Song.” He’ll explain what chimneys are for if you’re still not sure. Jazzy with scat.

Pax Vobiscum

Sometimes love Christmas is a wholesome ideal.

Steve Weeks lames on the Elvis impersonation with “Whole Lotta Love at Christmas.” Soul with all the feels.

The Rubettes (feat. Alan Williams) also ladle out the love “Together on Christmas Day.”

Lovely loving in the hard indie “Christmas Love” by Gwens. It’s all we want.

Quiet Quota’s voices crack with sincerity in the show tune “Christmas is Love.” Won’t you let Christmas love you?

The Heebee-jeebees sell the doo wop “Christmas of Love” with a cappella loving. I’m dancing!

Christmas Kids Cottage rock out with “I Really Really Really Love Christmas.” They love it all: Jesus, mashed potatoes, everything!

Don’t forget Make Like Monkeys retro pop “I Love Christmas.” It’s a laundry list of the good stuff, but it rocks.

Elf Love is the Greatest Love of All

Santa’s not the only member of the Christmas cast to need love!

Again! One of my favorite unrequited ballads is from The Rocket Summer about a delivery helper elf who sees HER one year Xmas eve, then returns again and again for an “Elf Creep.” It doesn’t end well.

Squeaky Z amateurs “Little Elf Dude” about some love that MIGHT withstand bad folk ballideering. Watch out for that BLUE ALERT slip at the beginning.

John Gannon’s “Elf in Love” is a tidy showtune of not-quite-successful trusting for subordinates.

Amy Spanger torch-sings (from ‘Elf, The Musical’) “Never Fall in Love with an Elf.” Buddy is erratic at best, so–yeah.

Youth on Track (feat. Ella and Daddy) jazz/pop improv their way around “Dancing with His Elf.” It’s a mess, but heartfelt.

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And sometimes, ol’ Red Suit is a home wrecker.

Jackie West (with Billy West) interrupts a wife-stealing “Santa Santa.” Knives are drawn, windows are violated, shotguns appear… the usual. Folk by way of Jamaica.

George Jones saw “Mom and Santa Claus” twisting that night. He had a look in his eye. Pop country from ’62, so it’s all innocent i’m sure.

At the bar Bill Mader’s old lady ran off with That Guy, so–in appropriate country fashion–he sings “Beer Humbug.” Catchy.

“Santa’s Misbehavin’” when faced with a scantily clad recipient in Kelly Nolf & Wyndi Harp’s country howler. … and Mrs. C found out!

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“Santa Claus Needs Some Lovin’ Tonight” ya dig? Rocky Sharp does. Blues! (Not to be confused with “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’” by Albert King. Tha’s smoove.)

Ms. Jody might not intend “Humping Santa” to sound as sexy it does (he works hard, has a bent back…), but never mind. I feel the heat from this soul.

JMaq raps about those lonely urges from our hero in “Get It.” A psychological peek behind the curtain.

In Three Day Threshold & Summer Villains’ “Jingle Jingle” the gifted one is only looking for a girlfriend. He’s courting, if clumsy. Fun folk.