Santa Claus & the Christmas Trees | |
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Genres | Novelty/ pub rock |
Years active | 1982–83 |
Labels | Polydor Records |
Santa Claus and the Christmas Trees was a novelty band created by Polydor Records in 1981.
In 1981, a Stiff Records novelty band, The Snowmen, had a Christmas hit single. [1] For the following year, Polydor A&R agent and occasional producer, Dennis Munday, whose main work was promoting post-punk groups such as The Jam, [2] put together a bunch of session musicians to record a similar 45, this time as a medley of traditional Christmas songs in a pub singalong style. The song reached the top 20, and the musicians appeared on Top of the Pops on 16 September 1982. [3] The band also recorded an X-rated version of the medley, under the same catalogue number (IVY 1), and with the same b-side, but with no identification on the sleeve or label. [4]
Polydor also commissioned the same musicians to produce a single for Valentine's Day in 1983, a medley of love songs [5] under the name Valentino and the Valentines; [6] it was not a hit. Undaunted, Polydor released a second Christmas medley, also accompanied by an X-rated version, [7] at the end of the year, and it also made the top 40, but there were no further releases from the concept.
Year | Song |
UK [8] |
RoI [9] |
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1982 | "Singalong-A-Santa (Medley)" | 19 | 30 |
1983 | "Singalong-A-Cupid (Medley)" | – | – |
1983 | "Singalong-A-Santa (Again)" | 39 | – |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Santa Claus & the Christmas Trees | |
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Genres | Novelty/ pub rock |
Years active | 1982–83 |
Labels | Polydor Records |
Santa Claus and the Christmas Trees was a novelty band created by Polydor Records in 1981.
In 1981, a Stiff Records novelty band, The Snowmen, had a Christmas hit single. [1] For the following year, Polydor A&R agent and occasional producer, Dennis Munday, whose main work was promoting post-punk groups such as The Jam, [2] put together a bunch of session musicians to record a similar 45, this time as a medley of traditional Christmas songs in a pub singalong style. The song reached the top 20, and the musicians appeared on Top of the Pops on 16 September 1982. [3] The band also recorded an X-rated version of the medley, under the same catalogue number (IVY 1), and with the same b-side, but with no identification on the sleeve or label. [4]
Polydor also commissioned the same musicians to produce a single for Valentine's Day in 1983, a medley of love songs [5] under the name Valentino and the Valentines; [6] it was not a hit. Undaunted, Polydor released a second Christmas medley, also accompanied by an X-rated version, [7] at the end of the year, and it also made the top 40, but there were no further releases from the concept.
Year | Song |
UK [8] |
RoI [9] |
---|---|---|---|
1982 | "Singalong-A-Santa (Medley)" | 19 | 30 |
1983 | "Singalong-A-Cupid (Medley)" | – | – |
1983 | "Singalong-A-Santa (Again)" | 39 | – |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |