ISO off key Christmas carols.

[TNDemo]

About 25 years ago radio station WLAC in Nashville (now gone) used to play these funny Christmas carols every year. It was somebody playing a piano and they would keep hitting wrong notes but just keep on playing - kind of like suffering through a kid's piano recital. They were really pretty hysterical and we looked forward to them every year. I have no idea if this was just a local thing or if other stations carried them (before the day of one company owning everybody). My husband and I have said several times we wished we could get that CD but I don't know if such a thing exists. I think you would probably have to have a good deal of talent to pull off playing so badly but who knows. Anybody know of anything like this out there? (Besides your kid playing the piano.)

[Another Bill C.]

1. Darlene and Jonathan Edwards

put out a few LPs in the early '60s. One of them may have had Christmas carols.

Darlene Edwards was actually Jo Stafford. She was hilarious.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Wing

She's legitimate, and she's totally awful.

It's not parody music, it's not intentionally off-key, it's music that the performer and others think is actually really good. But it is totally off-key, and also really poorly performed.

And she has a Christmas CD.

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/listen.html

The link to Santa Claus is Coming To Town: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/mp3s/CD6_01santaiscomingtotown.mp3

[arwalden]

4. Oh That's Just SAD!!! Made even funnier because she's serious...

it reminds me of a SNL routine.

-- Allen

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I'm glad you like it!

(so to speak)

Let's just hope she never tries to tackle that high-pitched "Loving You" song.

ouch!

[Jim__]

5. Great !!!! - n/t

[pagerbear]

3. Ever heard of Florence Foster Jenkins?

I don't think she recorded Christmas carols, but she did recitals of opera arias, and she was horrible!