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In 1986, the song title was parodied in "All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" by the band Half Man Half Biscuit on The Trumpton Riots EP. Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song on his 2002 Christmas album Cledus Navidad. Titled "All I Want for Christmas Is Two Gold Front Teef", Judd's parody is performed in rap. [9]
Gardner wrote "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" in 1944 while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked the class what they wanted for Christmas and noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing and answered with a lisp. [2] Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes.
"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" ... Holiday Airplay (No. 1), Holiday Digital Song Sales (No. 3), Holiday Streaming Songs (No. 2), Hot 100 Recurrents ...
2:12: 5. "Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)" Jerry Laseter, Mack Vickery: 2:59: 6. "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" Donald Gardner: 2:34: 7. "The Christmas Song" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells: 3:58: 8. "Noel Leon" Mike Geiger, Woody Mullis, Ricky Ray Rector: 2:53: 9. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Johnny Marks: 2:54: 10. "Santa's ...
A slightly less successful version of the song (#7 on the US Charts) was released in 1952 by Spike Jones [4] (with vocal by George Rock in the little boy voice used in Spike's hit "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"). Jones also recorded a parody for his personal pleasure titled "I Saw Mommy Screwing Santa Claus." [5]
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Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) [1] was an American musician, bandleader and conductor specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups , burps , and outlandish and comedic vocals.
The title "All I Want For Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" alludes to both the 1944 novelty Christmas song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" by Donald Yetter Gardner (1913–2004), and to the 1963 novelty Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas Is a Beatle" by Dora Bryan (1923–2014)