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"Dominick the Donkey" is a Christmas song written by Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg and Wandra Merrell, and was recorded by Lou Monte in 1960, on Roulette Records. The song describes Dominick, a donkey who helps Santa Claus bring presents ("made in Brooklyn ") to children in Italy due to the reindeer , despite their flight, being unable to climb the ...
Lou Monte (born Louis Scaglione; April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989) was an Italian American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Victor and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most famously "Lazy Mary" (1958) and the 1962/63 million-selling US single "Pepino the Italian Mouse", plus the seasonal track ...
"Pepino the Italian Mouse" is a novelty song co-written by Ray Allen and Wandra Merrell and published in 1962. [1] [2] Italian American singer Lou Monte recorded and released the song on Reprise Records in 1962. [3] Lou Monte's recording contains a high-pitched "mouse" voice in the style of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The song helped make Lou ...
"Dominick the Donkey" is actually a Christmas song that many sing with great affection, but it gets pretty funny when everyone starts making donkey sounds along with singer Lou Monte. 13 ...
For every “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” there’s an oddity like Lou Monte’s “Dominick the Donkey” or an inescapable misfire like Elmo and Patsy’s corny “Grandma Got Run Over by ...
“The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” ... written and performed by Lou Monte, 1960. For every person who can’t stand this little song about a donkey who helps Santa deliver ...
‘Dominick the Donkey’ by Lou Monte. There are few Christmas songs that are bigger earworms than Dominick the Donkey. If you hear this song, or even think of it, you’ll be singing it and ...
There was also a campaign supported by Chris Moyles of BBC Radio 1 to get Lou Monte's 1960 recording of "Dominick the Donkey" to Christmas number 1 and this song was number 2 in the iTunes and Amazon charts throughout the majority of the Christmas week behind the Military Wives. Chris Moyles' support of this rival song for Christmas number 1 ...