One would think I’d rate a disc of Christmas novelty songs among my all time favorites.  Well…OK, to a point.  On one hand, some of the songs on Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time (and perhaps the longest CD title of all time?) have become so overplayed or annoying that they are instant skips, and the “novelty” of the disc means that I probably only play it once per season.  On the other hand, this disc covers so much ground that it is still a worthwhile holiday CD to have in the collection.

Perhaps one of the earliest novelty recordings is present on this disc:  Spike Jones & His City Slickers lithping their way through “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.”  Other older gems by Stan Freberg (“Green Christma$” and “Nuttin’ For Christmas”) and Allan Sherman (“The Twelve Gifts of Christmas”) are balanced out by newer novelties like “Twelve Days of Christmas” by those hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie, and the Cheech & Chong stoner epic “Santa Claus and His Old Lady”.   The truly annoying come by way of “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas” and “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”, but fortunately those are only minor bumps in the road on this disc.  Other novelty favorites are here as well, those popular songs you know by Chipmunks and Singing Dogs and a Yogi (Yorgesson).  A good find, courtesy of the fine folks at Rhino and the great Dr. Demento.