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American Song-Poem Christmas

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 7, 2003)
  • Original Release Date: October 7, 2003
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Bar/None Records
  • ASIN: B0000AYLIO
  • Also Available in: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,707 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Heather Noel - Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile
2. Bobbie Boyle with The Singers - Santa Claus Goes Modern
3. Norris The Troubadour, Seaboard Coastliners- Christmas Time Philosophy
4. Dick Kent with The Lancelots - A New Year's Dawning
5. The Sisterhood - Rocking Disco Santa Claus
6. Stan Beard & The Swinging Strings - Snowbows
7. Bobbie Boyle with The MSR Singers - Randy, The Lil Elf
8. Rodd Rogers - Maury, The Christmas Mouse
9. Randall Reed with The Forerunners - The Peppermint Stick Man
10. The Sisterhood - Christmas Treat, Peppermint
11. Kay Brown - Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?
12. Rodd & The Librettos - How Do They Spend Christmas In Heaven
13. The Sisterhood - Ole Year Christmas
14. Gene Marshall - Evelyn Christmas
15. Rodd & Nita - Jolly, Jolly Santa Claus
16. Sonny Cash - Merry Christmas Polka
17. Rodd & Judy - Santa Fix My Toys For Christmas
18. The Sisterhood - Baby, It's A Cold Night In December
19. Rod Rogers & The Librettos - Santa Claus Goes Modern
20. Cara Stewart with Lee Hudson Orch. - The New Year Song
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What do you get that obsessive music geek with the record collection that threatens to overrun the house for the holidays? American Song-Poem Christmas, of course--even if he or she collects song-poem recordings, there’s no way he or she has all of these 21 songs. "Song-poems," of course, are rare, privately-pressed records that were sort of a scam in their 1970s heyday--companies lured people to send in lyrics and cash to record "hits" and what the would-be Lennon-and-McCartneys got in return was a few copies of a song composed and arranged off-the-cuff to the poems they’d mailed in. The best of the songs on this collection--"Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile," "The Rocking Disco Santa Claus," "Evelyn Christmas," "Maury, The Christmas Mouse" and "Randy, The Lil’ Elf" among them--are accidental art with the same outsider charm one finds in Jim Shaw’s Thrift Store Paintings project. The songs on this record have incredibly awkward rhyme schemes and sound like some sort of alien karaoke beamed from the past--but in a good way! Once you start, it’s very hard to stop listening to American Song-Poem Christmas, one of the most interesting, and bizarrely uplifting, holiday albums ever collected. --Mike McGonigal

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Outsiders Unite for the Holidays, December 15, 2003
Re-re-releases of the same old Holiday strains re-re-recorded by the new voices of today's artists will not be heard on this album. In fact, the majority of these particular voices have never been heard on a commercial release, ever. Yet, that's exactly what is so unique about the "American Song-Poem Christmas."

This is not so much an attempt to laugh at ineptitude, either. Certainly, there are many flaws to be heard, carrying the album far, far away from the Lost Lands of Mediocrity. Yet, these are the words and voices of our neighbors. Perhaps, if I dare say so... perhaps even ourselves?

Everybody's got a Christmas song to sing. These people actually went out and did something about it, and leave their legacy for the rest of the world, thanks to this album.

While not as ground-breaking as the "American Song-Poem Anthology" album released shortly before this compilation, it is an essential piece to be owned by admirers of the outsider music sub-genre. Traditionalists, on the other hand, will want to pass over this disc, for Frosty the Snowman has long since melted away and Rudolph's nose has been extinguished in the realm of the American Song-Poem Christmas.

And for many of us looking for a variety of Christmas spirit that comes not from mass-produced, sanitized recording studios, but from the heart of folks just like us... that's not nearly as bleak a concept as it sounds.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly Mystical Adventure Music, December 14, 2003
By Jane Rodgers (Olema, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Ok, that other review? Possibly honest and to the point, but one star??? No way, dude. This album is worth every penny. Perhaps I live in the land of Dork, but dang it if Santa Came in on a Nuclear Missile doesn't crack me up every time. For those of you who want to wretch every time you go shopping from Thanksgiving until Christmas, this album will put you back on food. I call it "My Christmas Antidote." The title track is the absolute best!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Santa Claus is a wise old man., December 4, 2007
What is a "song poem"? Back in the day, ads were run in magazines, comic books and tabloid newspapers requesting people to send in their "poems or song lyrics". People who responded to the ad would receive a letter saying that their lyrics had the potential to be turned into a hit record, but the record company needed a few hundred dollars from the songwriter to produce the record. This was all a big scam, of course. Anyone who sent in the money would have their song quickly and cheaply recorded, and they would be sent a few copies of the song on a record. Unsurprisingly, no song poems ever actually became hits. But years later, record collectors discovered old song poems, and they managed to become cult favorites. This particular CD collects song poems about Christmas (or New Year's or winter). These are pretty weird songs. Songs about Santa Claus riding on a nuclear missile or a flying saucer. And other Christmasy things almost as strange as that. But the oddball nature of these songs is what makes them charming (to some people). I like them, but I won't be surprised if you don't.
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