Dr. Elmo "Twisted Christmas"
Reviewed December 18, 1997  by Eric Houg
Review last messed with June 10, 2000

Score: 35  100 means excellent.  Scores range from 0 to infinity, infinity being best.

Comments
Not to be confused with the Twisted Christmas albums by Bob Rivers Comedy Corp.  Dr. Elmo, formerly of Elmo and Patsy (his ex wife), made another recording their famous Christmas novelty song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and added a bunch of forgettable new Christmas songs to make an album out of it.

Tracks listed in track order
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
This is a newer recording of the same old song you probably heard.  Pretty close to the original.  Grandpa doesn't sound as deep voiced interesting this time.  I never understood why the original version was a hit.  If you want the original Elmo and Patsy song I suggest you buy it on some compilation album like "Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time".

Grandma's Spending Christmas With The Superstars
The Reindeer sequel.  The reindeer killed Grandma, so she's in heaven now.  Elmo is dropping names of dead dudes and not making a very interesting story.  Sing it Grandpa!  Grandpa must have died too since the original Reindeer recording, cuz he sounds real bad on this song.  Send it back!

Christmas Won't Be The Same Without Johnny
Elmo misses Johnny Carson on his TV.  This song was good enough to play the day Johnny retired.   A keeper if you are a TV historian, or a DJ planning a Johnny Carson set.

Grandma's Killer Fruitcake
A twangy country sound about a bad tasting fruitcake for Christmas.

Santa Ain't Coming
Ain't aint a word.  Santa says no more ho ho, let the Japanese make the toys.  Kids just say gimme.  At the end he hears a kid who says he's got enough and he would like to share, so Santa gets back into the Santa bizness.  Ho ho hum.

Christmas Millionaire
A song about how Elmo would be a millionaire if he had a hit Christmas song.

Grandpa's Gonna Sue The Pants off of Santa
Another Reindeer spin-off.  Grandpa gets a lawyer.  Santa gets his day in court.  Who won?  The lawyers.

Junk Bond Christmas Blues
Uh, I think another song just went by.  Sorry, I'll try to pay more attention.

Send Me A Wife For Christmas
A wife wish list.  Clues as to why Elmo got that last divorce.

Here's to the Lonely
A song which doesn't attempt to be funny, but sentimental, about all the lonely people.  (Where do they all come from?)

Don't Make Me Play that Grandma Song Again
Now that really makes sense.  Finally a song with merit.  Elmer sings about how Elmo can't even sing.  Elves, singing dogs, and some James Browny "Grandpa's got a brand new nag."