Santa Got Stuck

Santa Got Stuck

I didn’t have the energy last evening to try the fudge recipe, so can't report on that tonight.

Today around 4:00 one of my co/workers started singing “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas”. It’s one of those oldie Christmas songs that 101.7 radio station dug up for their classic Christmas songs that they are playing on their station all month. It got us all talking about funny Christmas songs, and a favorite of mine when I was a kid, popped into my head. I haven’t thought of this song since my kids were little and I told them about it. Let me quiz you to see if you remember it. Of course, if you aren’t over 40, I’m sure you won’t. I think it was made into a record around 1952 or ’53:
“Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney”
My Grandmother had the record and I used to listen to it a lot at her house, every Christmas season, that record and also “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”. None of my co/workers had ever heard of it. I started singing it, and it still wasn’t familiar to them. Do any of my readers remember it?

It was suggested that I call the DJ at 101.7 and ask them to look it up and play it. So, I did. He could not find it anywhere in their system, and he said he searched in all the places where they can search. One of my friends said to ask the DJ “Rain Man” that he for sure would know it. Rain Man is not working this week. I couldn’t, at the time remember who sang it, but I suggested that it might have been the flip side of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”, which became a very big hit and pretty much everyone knows. If it is the flip side, that could be why it didn’t become popular, so, the whole drive home from work, it was driving me crazy as to who sang it! By the time I got to my computer at home, two names came to mind. Johnny Marks and Jimmy Boyd. I googled both of them, Jimmy Boyd recorded the Kissing Santa Claus song, (do you know that some radio stations banned the song?!!!). I was sure he did the Chimney song too, but couldn’t find it listed anywhere under either of their names. Finally, I found a reference to Snopes.com web site, referring to stories of people getting stuck in a chimney. Snopes, of course, reported that it has never happened, and that the stories might have originated from the Jimmy Boyd song of “Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney”! SO…I was right, it was recorded by Jimmy Boyd! I found a CD on Amazon.com that had old Jimmy Boyd songs, but “Santa Got Stuck…” was not on the CD. I tried calling the DJ back for over an hour, to tell him to look under Jimmy Boyd, but the line is constantly busy. I will try calling tomorrow! Maybe he can find it and play it. If you hear it, you will know I was responsible for requesting it!

Speaking about funny Christmas songs…what is your favorite(s) “Funny song”????
Please post a comment and let me know.