Author: douglove1225

I Want to BELIEVE:IX

Bucky Cash & The Low Point force the folk out of the rock in “Merry Christmas (If You Believe).” It’s not a contest, but you lost.

Southern Dogwood leads Sunday School with the pop quiz “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Santa is NOT one of the answers. Nailed to trees IS an answer.

James Lee Turner gets more secular with “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Lights and stockings get more airplay than God here. He’s name-dropped once. Could be AI, definitely dull pop.

Ben Inglis might require translating subtitles when he pounds club rock in “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Is Scots a dialect of English or nae?

Rebecca Turner dreams a dream only to recommend hugs and kisses when she asks “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Atonal folk (jazz?) that relies on the third eye more than the three French hens.

I Want to BELIEVE:VIII

I’m not too keen on revisiting the nauseating call-and-response kidsong “Must Be Santa” by its originator Mitch Miller or whoever else. It IS a conclusion drawn about the existence of the Noth Polian. But it’s so tiring… (Even the lugubrious reorchestration by Hugh J. Noble–yeowch). Then i did stumble across a most profane and disturbing parody by Martin and Me. Please have a toilet nearby when you hear this.

Answering with asking, Brian Dewan gently pops the question “Do You Believe In Santa?” Tolstoy and Superman somehow get mixed up in all this. I have so Many Questions.

HorrorScene’s “SantaScene” electronically asks you believe what he saw. He saw Kissing. Believe it.

Also demanding the benefit of the doubt, MJames and Mark seek corroboration when “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” You have to believe!

Damien Horgan takes a more Neil Diamond approach with “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Makes a strong case here. Well, he’s NO Jesus Christ, but still– Easy Listening with a jazz edge.

I Want to BELIEVE:VII

How long did it take before we listened to a Journey parody? A week?! “Don’t Stop Believing (In Santa Claus)” is almost what you hoped for. Awkward.

With great rhymes like Have you tried his pasta sauce? and Are you always grasping at straws? Zansman garage down “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” Let me answer that question With a question: Are you still dating Roz? (Rhymes.)

Thurl Ravenscroft (awesome!) and The King Sisters help out Billy May & His Orchestra with the bass booming kidsong “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” Careful with your answers, there’s a twist.

Navel gazing in a mirror factory, Make Like Monkeys retro rocks the poser “Who Fathered Christmas?” Wait, was it God?!

I Want to BELIEVE:VI

Still asking the tough questions, Drekka und Vollmar muddy up “Why Do You Still Celebrate Christmas When You Only Believe in Santa Claus?” with filters and features so you’ll zone out rather than figure out the whole blues mishegas.

Michael Scott Dublin (feat. Sinead Murphy) flips the script when asks “The Sad Fairy (Do You Believe In Me?)” with grating showtune vocals. Well, still magic… so the question of faith remains the same. You gonna?

Speaking o’ magic, Cory Goodrich beseeches in pop folk (tiny tots’ gospel) “Please Believe.” She did use the magic word.

The Oakwood Waits raise the rafters with the gospel chorale “I Believe This is Jesus.” Who are you pointing at?

“Go You Believe Inna Christmas” is the funny-voice Q+A parang from Goddy Goddy & Ryan Mark. It goes in circles but hits the ground dancing.

I Want to BELIEVE:V

Trying again, The Hooves declare with sock hop rock that–when overwhelmed with Xmas–all you can do is believe you had a “Hoof on the Roof.”

Speaking plainly Tyrone and Leslie ask “Why is Santa Every Where?” It’s a folk litany of three-year-olds’ questions. Keep up.

Claiming belief, SLEEPING TIMMY mush-mind the indie “Do They Know It’s Christmas (If It’s Not on Facebook)?” with all the pissy sardonicness they can muster. They might be mad.

Rapping up the uncertainty, Pj Panda side eyes “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” with surprising hope. Hard beat, if not completely upbeat.

I Want to BELIEVE:IV

Trying again Kevin James (as Santa) rocks out Sesame Street about how you gotta just “Believe.” All of the monsters there do, seems.

Also again, but slowing down with old age, the incomparable Mel Blanc talk-sings as Bugs Bunny in the 1974 kidsong “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” He gets Socratic in his logic.

Nicole Williamson yowls like a drunk six-year-old in the inconceivably symphonic kidsong “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” Car crashes sound better.

Sir Norman Wisdom (funnyman of British cinema back in the early ’60s) addresses all good (and otherwise) children with his overly orchestrated kidsong “Do You Believe in Christmas?” He’s a crack-up. For himself.

I Want to BELIEVE:III

Trying again, Leo SC raps “Where’s Santa Claus at?” Trying to catch a peek is he.

Homegrown noise from John Guilfoyle makes the question “Do You Believe in Santa Claus?” moot. The real question is, can you practice more?

Marcus-Mason tries the reworded route with “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Yes, it’s The Lovin’ Spoonful turned on its holiday. Fun.

The Song Trust chronicles the ages of getting with it–and fighting the peer pressure–with the country twangin’ “I Still Believe in You.”

It must be Christmas somewhere else Essential Logic leads the children in “Do You Believe in Christmas?” Lighthearted Britrock… with lots of kids.

I Want to BELIEVE-II

Trying again, Scott Hearn’s character in the musical ‘Christmas in Hell’ belts out “I Wish That I Believed.” He wants to connect to magic, the season, and hope. It’s regretfully heartfelt.

John Denver and The Muppets make “The Christmas Wish” about you believing. This maudlin middle of the road country bummer really wants what’s best for the whole world. Just so you know, God and Santa get mixed up a whole lot this month.

Seeing is believing, as we’ll see repeatedly here. “See the Big Man Flying” chortles Andy Beisel & The Buccaneers with totes adorbs low country swing. Follow that kid’s finger for yourself.

Perhaps turning away from Jesus, Kelly Galvin fronts “I’ll Believe In Santa If I Want To” by Wild Bill featuring the Whiskey Shivers. She figures more presents that way in this charming bluegrass strummer.

I Want to BELIEVE:I

Seeing Santa is all well and good for kids who gotsa, but most of us closed our eyes and just KNEW he was on his way. Our faith moved mountains of presents. Seek not to understand that you may be getting, but be getting that you may understand. Altogether now: F-A-I-T-H.

The New Anxiety slog through their struggles in epistemology with their indie “When We Believed.” It goes as well as could be expected.

The Ohio City Singers folk rock “A Season for Believing” with a touch of Motown. It’s a call to transforms.

Santa & The Toymakers make a meal out of the (not exactly light-hearted) plea “You’ve Got to Believe in Me.” Santa seems hair metal desperate. I’d do it if i were you.

Look Alive Christmas

I had hoped from the cool title that “Wake Me Up When Christmas Ends” would flip our concept on it’s stocking toe, but Luke McMaster plies lounge easy listening pop to a lovelorn letter all about missing you.

Ketchy Shuby funks up “Santa Better Not Wake My Girl Up” with all the ooohs and unhs you could ever want. I dig it, but wazza matter with a woken girlfriend?

“Don’t Wake Me Up (On Christmas)” from Don Fish tortures the vocals into, well not chipmunks, but some other varmint–only intoxicated. Warped folk.

Mars makes “Don’t Wake Me Up (For Christmas)” much more lively with their ’70s exotic instrument popology. Hand jive, Moog, cuckoo clocks… go cat go.