I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd

Billboard Magazine's #1 Single Dec. 27, 1952 - Jan. 9, 1953

Once again, we're decorating our time machine for Christmas. Jimmy Boyd, at the age of twelve years, made the original recording of this well known Christmas song, which has since been covered by many artists and translated into many languages. It was actually banned by the Roman Catholic Church of Boston for mixing Christmas with sex, but after Boyd himself met with the church and explained the song, the ban was lifted. This song quickly turned him into a star and it sold two and a half million records the first weeks after it's release. Every Christmas it had a new peak for many years to come, and today, reportedly, it has sold a grand total of about 60 million records.


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Here are some more versions of this song:

Jackson 5


John Cougar Mellencamp in 1987


Amy Winehouse


Lyrics:

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night.
She didn't see me creep
down the stairs to have a peep;
She thought that I was tucked
up in my bedroom fast asleep.

Then, I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white;
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night

Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

Billboard Magazine's #1 Single Jan. 7 - Jan. 13



In the real world, we're nowhere near Christmas, but our time machine is currently passing by January 1950, so this is the perfect time for a Christmas song. This song, that is still popular to this day, was not originally written and performed by Gene Autry, but he played a big part in it's popularization. For more reference on this song and the story behind it, see the Wikipedia article.

Lyrics:

You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
Then how the reindeer loved him
And they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
You'll go down in history!"

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