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The promotional music video for Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" was released in the mid-1980s, and aired on MTV for at least 18 years. The video could also be seen on VH1 , CMT , TNN , GAC , and VH1 Classic during the holiday season, as well as on Spike 's official website and YouTube .
In 1979, Shropshire recorded "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" (written by his friend Randy Brooks). At the time, he was part of a double act with his then-wife Patsy Trigg; though he effectively recorded the song as a solo record without Trigg's help, they released the record credited as a duet, which he stated was "another story."
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy Much to the chagrin of Christmas-celebrating grandmothers everywhere, when it comes to funny Christmas songs, this one is often at the top of ...
In 1979 he recorded “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” which was written by musician friend Randy Brooks. “I thought it would be funny, people could listen to it and they’d laugh once ...
KSFO was the station that broke Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" to national fame. [ 32 ] The station's news department earned national and international journalism awards for coverage of the 1978 Peoples Temple mass suicides in Jonestown , Guyana [ 33 ] and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and ...
‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’ by Elmo and Patsy (1979) Grandma was run over by a reindeer because she drank too much eggnog and didn’t have her medication in the novelty hit ...
Decades later, the 1979 novelty, music pop-chart song, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” by Randy Brooks, was recorded by married bluegrass musicians Elmo and Patsy. In 2000, the song was ...
Randy Brooks wrote a Christmas novelty song and it was originally recorded by the duo Elmo Shropshire and his then-wife Patsy in 1979, called "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer". It tells the tragic-comic story of a family grandmother (loosely based on Brooks's uncle Foster Brooks) who meets her end on Christmas Eve. After having drunk too ...