Eastern Iowa's Most Hated Xmas Song

Hey, it's Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

Hope you have it a great weekend.

Friday morning we were talking about the worst Christmas songs ever.

And yes, there was a clear winner or loser, I should say.

That is winning as far as Eastern Iowa's least favorite Christmas song.

That is the song that's winning or losing, I guess you'd say.

That's a little dark.

I know.

Oh boy, 36

hours!

You're changing

format.

That's dumb.

I can't stand when stations do that.

I really can't.

Hey, let's annoy everybody and then, boom, we'll go on the air and people will already hate us.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

Yes.

And the Santa baby.

Oh, the sexy Santa song, sure.

Yeah.

So not a big fan of those Christmas classics

then?

Well,

you can't be more clear than that.

And what is it about Santa Baby you don't like?

Is it the fact that there's some woman coming on to Santa Claus?

You

know, you wonder who's singing the song.

Is it Mrs. Claus?

Is it, uh, you know, the nanny?

Is it,

I don't know.

I've got a little twist on your, uh, Worst Christmas song.

Okay.

I do about 35 shows at retirement homes.

Yeah,

yeah, right.

And a lot of times I will ask if there's any requests.

Believe it or not, my number one request is, Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

Yep, even those songs that people emphatically hate, there are people on the other end of the spectrum that just love it.

And it seems to be the older one, but of course I twist it up though.

I sing it like a red neck.

Yeah.

Well, I

don't know you very well, Dave, but I'd say that's probably a pretty short

drive.

When will grandpa get run over so we'll stop singing that song?

No kid

man, I can't handle that damn thing.

Every year it comes on, it's just like seriously.

Yep, yeah, that's in my three.

Another one is, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Oh jeez, I forgot about that one.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

Nope.

Oh my gosh.

That's amazing.

Oh, by the way, give a shout out.

We need to do something for John Lennon.

Ain't that about 43 years today?

That's exactly right.

Yes.

I knew you would.

And by the way, John Lennon has one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time.

Oh, yeah.

What's that?

Happy Christmas.

War is

over.

We

don't know if it was Rudolph.

We just know that grandma got run over by a reindeer.

That's all we know.

It may have been Donner or Blitzen or Comet or Cupid or Dasher and Dancer.

I suppose, but maybe he landed and maybe one of them kind of got

off

kilter a little bit and then sideswiped grandma.

I don't know.

I don't know how it went down.

There are no details in the song as far as which reindeer.

knocked off grandma

no it's so

dark although you know what made me happy in my mind thinking about grandpa getting run over by a reindeer so he'd stop singing the song

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.

Wham!

Whoever, there's a whole bunch of people that do it.

The big one is

Wham!

Oh, wow.

And that's how you have to say it, because there's an exclamation point

at the

end of the night.

Oh, there is it, because there is.

OK.

Yeah, you can't say Wham.

That'd be a period.

OK.

Wham!

Thank you for letting me inform me about that.

There you go.

So

when that song comes on, it's like Wham!

The Christmas Hammer hits you right in the mouth.

I turn it off.

I can't

stand it.

Well, and you don't think of this Christmas, you think of last Christmas.

Oh,

yeah, it's already

done.

Right.

Come on, let's think about the

future people.

Yeah.

Yeah, I

got a nomination for least favorite Christmas song.

All

right, lay it on me, man.

Well, as much as I love the Beatles, simply having a wonderful Christmas time just drives me nuts.

Not a fan of that one at all.

I do like the Beatles.

Not that song, though.

That's a terrible song.

It absolutely is.

I think the only good Beatles, former Beatles Christmas song was John Lennon's Happy Christmas, as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, that is a good song.

That's very good.

Yes, Happy Christmas is as happy as Wonderful Christmas is not wonderful.

Exactly.

That's a good way to put it.

Good way to put it.

There you go.

All right.

Thanks for doing what you do, man.

Have a

good one.

Oh, on

the list, no.

It is not.

Is that your least favorite?

Yeah.

You know, how can you not like that?

Oh, it's terrible.

Oh, yeah.

Jingle bells?

No, barking dogs and shut them up.

Yes.

Because, yeah, I don't think they have any bells jingling in there.

Maybe they have, but it's hard to get past the barking of the dogs to hear anything else.

Absolutely.

The number one is either.

or I carry all I want for Christmas is you or Christmas shoes.

You got it on the second try.

Yeah, that's the one I hate the most.

I hate Christmas shoes.

Really?

I hate

it.

But all I want for Christmas is you.

That was nowhere on the list.

If you've seen all the memes where she's the witch that comes out once a year.

Yes.

Same with Michael Buble where he comes out of his

hole.

I have.

I have two, but I like Michael Buble in general, so... I'm not insulting anyone or

dissing anyone, I'm just...

No, it's okay.

He's seen those memes, too.

I've seen him on talk shows and they tease him about it.

Oh, yeah, he's got a

great sense of humor.

He does.

She

doesn't.

Oh, she doesn't, really.

I hear she's really a diva, full of herself.

See, that's just more reason not to like

it.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I think her voice, the upper register anyway, should be used as a car alarm.

Ooh.

Oh, that's a good idea.

Thank you.

It doesn't quite shatter glass, but

the close.

Yeah, yeah.

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