What else could go wrong with those aerial antlered ones?
Sleeping Dogs Lie detail the toughest gig in the sky with “Another Drunken Santa Claus Christmas.” Harmonious light folk pop with a warning in its tale. Whispery fun.
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: constellation
Flying reindeer, yes. Orbital reindeer, not so sure.
Jacob Short noodles on the keyboard and pastes together “Reindeer in Space” about the extracurriculars of the eight. It gets weird. An entire alien civilization is destroyed. Is that a Xmas thing?
Felice Again: conjuration
Maybe not technology, but magic will replace those flying reindeer.
Teresa Brewer shoehorns “The Flying Suit Song” into her Christmas collection with a couple ad libs. Not originally a holiday bit, but we like it!
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: association
Do the reindeer ever pair up with others to deliver the goods–?
OMG “Flying Christmas Babies” from Bloom is the gentle kidsong folk pop that destroys a mind. What is this lullaby folderol?! Are these cherubim or infants in peril!? Who thought this was a playful notion?!?!
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.
Felice Avian: expectation
Children watch the skies every year, not for nuclear bombs/alien invasions like they did after 1951’s ‘Thing from Another World,’ but for reindeer/Santa.
“I Still Believe” is a homegrown folk ballad from PST. Earnestly overlong, but so is waiting on 12/24.
Martin Black uses syncopated country to silly effect with the kidsong “Fly Away Little Reindeer.” Oddly, this time the spotted reindeer is shooed into the sky. Which messes up this kid for life.