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I Am Santa Claus

1993 studio album by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I Am Santa Claus
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I Am Santa Claus is the second Christmas album by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio. It was released in November 1993 by Atlantic Records (WEA 82548), five years after Twisted Christmas, and four years before More Twisted Christmas.[1][2]

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Track listing

  1. "There's Another Santa Claus" - 2:01
  2. "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear"[3][4] - 1:55
    • (parody of "Winter Wonderland" about cross-dressing)[1] performed by a-capella group Fifth Inversion
  3. "I Am Santa Claus" - 3:22
    • (sung to tune of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, except the last ten notes on the prominent guitar riff are replaced with five notes from Jingle Bells.)[5]
    • A music video was made for the title track, in which Rivers, playing a father of two, inexplicably transforms into a heavy-metal Santa Claus riding in a reindeer-pulled limousine on Christmas Eve. In a meta-cameo, Ozzy Osbourne, in a black-and-white universe watching the video on a television, angrily turns the TV off, transforming metal-Santa (in the middle of a concert) back into Rivers.[6]
  4. "Manger 6" - 0:44
  5. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" - 2:09
  6. "I Came Upon a Roadkill Deer" - 3:01
  7. "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator" - 1:25
  8. "Grahbe Yahbalz" - 1:08
  9. "A Letter to Santa" - 2:41
  10. "Jingle Hells Bells" - 2:38
  11. "The Kids" - 2:18
  12. "The Magical Kingdom of Claus" - 5:53
    • (mini-musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, in which the Emerald City/North Pole is replaced with a commercialized shopping mall-type environment, briefly parodies the song "If I Only Had a Brain")
  13. "The 'What's It to Ya' Chorus - 2:37
  14. "Didn't I Get This Last Year?" - 3:22
  15. "The Under the Tree World of Jacques Cousteau" - 3:02
    • (spoken word piece, narrated by a Cousteau impersonator)
  16. "O Christmas Tree" - 2:33
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Critical reaction

J. D. Considine wrote in the Baltimore Sun that "Rivers' idea of 'funny' generally seems the work of a guy who's read too many issues of Mad magazine, but there are some good bits here."[8] Helen Bryant of The Dallas Morning News wrote "Irving Berlin, it's not"[1] while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the album "this year's hip offering."

Chart performance

By late December 2003, the album had already sold more than 100,000 copies.[9] I Am Santa Claus entered the Billboard Top Albums chart at #180[9] before peaking at #106.

References

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