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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 .
Elmo Earl Shropshire [1] (born October 26, 1936) is an American veterinarian, competitive runner, and country music singer. Shropshire, who typically performs under the name "Dr. Elmo", is best known for his Christmas novelty song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer".
The best-known Christmas song from Texas has it all: elves, eggnog, Santa and a runaway sleigh and reindeer that flattened poor Grandma.. In December 1977, young Dallas folk singer Randy Brooks ...
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is a 2000 animated Christmas television special directed by Phil Roman.The special was first released on home video on October 31, 2000, [1] and then aired on The WB network on December 21, 2001. [2]
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 ...
"8 Days of Christmas" was released as the lead single from Destiny's Child's 2001 holiday album of the same name. The R&B hit was cowritten by Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Errol McCalla Jr. and ...
Also that year, a compilation titled For Diehards Only was released, featuring a selection of songs from the group's first four albums. Da Yoopers' 1993 album One Can Short of a Six-Pack featured both regular and Christmas songs, including a parody of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" titled "Grandpa Got Run Over By a Beer Truck". Potila ...
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 ...