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Various Artists The American Song-Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four? Bar/None Records—2003 In an American Song-Poem Christmas, the egg nog’s been skunked with ‘ludes and Santa’s gettin’ it on with Mom. Alarmingly lucid in its stupidity, these cracked holiday tunes are the audio equivalent of inhaling too many of those crystals one throws on Yule logs to make them glow iridescent; you are left, in the words of “Ole Year Christmas,” “as nutty as the cake.” |
Daddy, Is Santa Really Six-Foot-Four? is the second song-poem compilation from Bar/None. As with its predecessor, the delirious Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush, the twenty-one songs collected were written by novices lured by those “Your Poems Set to Music” ads found in the back of magazines and then produced and recorded by studio musicians. The songwriters were allowed to address any subject in their lyrics, from Jimmy Carter to the glories of Mt. Cisco, but in order to plant the “seeds” of success, they had to fork over cash to cover production costs. Needless to say, none of these B-grade Burt Bacharachs went anywhere, and their material lay fallow until collectors (like NRBQ’s Tom Ardolino) tapped their deep-fried grooves in the early ‘90s. |
