When I was a kid, growing up in Iron Mountain, Michigan....every year near Christmas WMIQ radio would play this song.......it was big in the Upper Peninsula, Northern Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota. Gabriel Heater is mentioned...he was a top news man and commentator on national news radio....(before TV) in case you are wondering who he was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNNpVYwID3I&feature=em-share_video_user
It's tongue and cheek but still fun. The younger generation for the most part has never heard it.
Have a very, merry Christmas
Cheers, Joe
PS Out west Stan Boreson did a version of this....A little added story....I have a lot of them. The Seattle Worlds Fair was having their 20 year anniversary ...1982. The radio station was looking for anyone that had a 1962 car to give celebrities a ride through the parade. My wife Kathy happened to have a 62 Pontiac Tempest. I drove down to the Space needle with the car. In jumps an older guy with a suit case and big smile.....I asked who he was?...It was Stan Boreson. Had a great conversation with him and he told me of the TV show he did years before. He is still well known today.
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