Rock N Roll Christmas Party Playlist

Tired of the same old Christmas songs? Are you "Jingle Bell Rocked" to death? "Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’d" out? Then check out Casey’s Musical Dustbin’s Rock N Roll Christmas Party Podcast featuring the hippest Yuletide tunes you will ever hear.  Take a listen HERE

PLAYLIST 

BACK DOOR SANTA (CLARENCE CARTER) Great funky Christmas tune from the guy who would become infamous a few years later for his risque hit “Strokin’”. Santa’s been a bad boy.

MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT (RAMONES) Joey and company give Phil Spector a run for his money on this one. Check out the Uber cheesy eighties video on YouTube.What says Christmas more than leather jackets and sunglasses?

THE MAN IN THE SANTA SUIT (FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE) One of my all-time favorite Christmas tunes from the band that brought you the 2003 top ten hit “Stacey’s Mom”. Great jangly guitar pop told from the view of a department store Santa.

SLEIGH RIDE (VENTURES) C’mon, it’s the Ventures. What’s not to like?

SANTA LOOKED A LOT LIKE DADDY (BUCK OWENS) Buck and the Buckaroos at their mid-sixties best.

BE BOP SANTA CLAUS (BABS GONZALES) Hipster version of The Night Before Christmas 

ROCK N ROLL SANTA CLAUS (LITTLE JOEY FARR) Great rockabilly from a kid whose sounds about twelve. No relation to the cross dressing actor in MASH

MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY (CHARLES BROWN) Turn out the lights, turn on the tree and snuggle on the couch with your honey. Cool late night Christmas blues. Otis Redding would rearrange this into an upbeat funky number a few years later. Bruce Springsteen had a Christmas hit with Otis’s version in the seventies. I prefer the original. Incidentally, Charles Brown also wrote “Please Come Home For Christmas”. You hear the Eagles’ version every thirty seconds during the holidays. Once again, the original is better.

SANTA ON THE ROOF (REVEREND HORTON HEAT) As always, the good Reverend brings us great music, funny lyrics and wicked guitar work.

SANTA CLAUS & HIS OLD LADY (CHEECH & CHONG) Politically incorrect on so many levels but so much fun

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (LOS STRAITJACKETS) Christmas music in Mexican wrestling masks. How fun is that?

SANTA CLAUS (SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON)  Weird blues tune from, perhaps, the greatest blues harpist of all.

HEY, SANTA CLAUS (MOONGLOWS) The Moonglows were a doo wop group out of Cleveland, Ohio. The were discovered by Alan Freed and were pretty big on the pop charts. In fact, they were inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000. This is a fun r&b bouncer with great tenor saxophone.

I WANT A ROCK N ROLL GUITAR (JOHNNY PRESTON) The spoken word tale of a kid who wants a guitar for Christmas. Johnny Preston does his best Elvis impression. He would go on a few years later to have a hit with “Running Bear”

JINGLE BELLS (SINGING DOGS) What a bunch of talented canines. When I had a dog, I couldn’t even get him to roll over.

WHITE CHRISTMAS (VENTURES) Okay, okay, I know we already played the Ventures but c’mon, it’s the Ventures for crying out loud!

TRUCKIN' TREES FOR CHRISTMAS (RED SIMPSON) I have never been a huge country music fan, (I don’t get why they dress up like cowboys) but I always liked truck driving songs. Not that C.W MaCall Convoy country/disco stuff but the mid-sixties tunes by the likes of Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, Red Sovine, Dick Curless and yes, the greatest of them all, Red Simpson. He actually put out a whole album of this stuff called, “Truckers’ Christmas”. It’s worth a listen.

SANTA'S ROCKABILLY CHRISTMAS (SKIP THOMPSON) I wonder why there are so many rockabilly songs about Christmas? There’s almost as many rockabilly Christmas records as there are rockabilly records about flying saucers. Almost. This is one of the best.

LIGHTEN UP, IT'S CHRISTMAS (GEEZINSLAWS) Here is a seasonal favorite for anyone who has had the misfortune to enter a mall during the time of “peace and joy”.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR'S EVE (ORIOLES) Great Holiday Doo Wop.

Merry Christmas. You can listen to the podcast HERE

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