Run Rudolph Run
Chuck Berry
To the tune of Johnny B Good our beloved Chuck Berry rips out "Run Rudolph Run"!
This is hilarious and in Chick Berry's loving memory a cartoonist puts the guitar riff into life. I think Chuck would smile or at least chuckle at the sight of that sleigh going by. The little boy and the electric guitar rock, but nothing compared to Santa Chuck.
Rock n' Roll
Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
Ramones
MTV did not ruin the Ramones.
Their beautiful faces match the rocking punk beat that follows a cheesy Miniola skit.
Like many Ramones songs the message is so simple, "Merry Christmas. I don't want to fight tonight." Yet in the video they show it is not so easy to love each other even on Christmas.
The end of the video splints to Santa and the porcelain goddess...
Ho ho ho.
Yellow Snow Suite
Frank Zappa
No Christmas is complete without this eskimo song. It feels like a hundred below but "watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow".
Zappa says, "Save your money don't go to the show." But this is one show I wish I went to. This is pure genius: The lead shoe verses the yellow snow!
His way with the audience is very similar to me in my English classes. I guess he was a pioneer in the field of "stupid" audience participation.
I'll let you figure out what the punch line is.
Just enjoy the music.