Track Listing

1. Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
2. Merry Christmas, Baby - The Beach Boys
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Fats Domino
4. It's Christmas Time - The Five Keys
5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Dion
6. White Christmas - The Statues
7. Frosty the Snowman - The Ventures
8. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - The Beach Boys
9. Jingle Bells - The Ventures
10. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Dion
11. Call Me for Christmas - Gary "U.S." Bonds
12. Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
13. Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
14. Merry Twist-Mas - The Marcels
15. I Told Santa Claus - Fats Domino
16. Blue Christmas - Bobby Vee

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #264000 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-09
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Just one more disc in a collection of records about draggin' on Main Street that tie rock & roll to the hot rod world of bygone eras, Hot Rod Holiday presents a pretty good mix of songs targeted to boomers who recall Bobby Helms's "Jingle Bell Rock" and the Marcels' "Merry Twist-mas" as easily as Dion and Bobby Vee. Of course there's also the Beach Boys' Phil Spectoresque "Merry Christmas Baby" and Fats Domino singing about Rudolph, the Ventures wisking through "Jingle Bells" and "Frosty the Snowman," and Gary U.S. Bonds making a simple request, "Call Me for Christmas." Get it for that gray-headed gear head or Mustang Sally on your block. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

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Old School Sleighs - Some I like better than others, with the mix and arrangment outstanding.The tunes are good retrospection of what those rebels of the time would enjoy from the radio as they went a'cruising.I rather like the way they hang, with a few standards tossed about interpertations seldom heard today.Any cd which mixes bar room blues "I Told Santa Claus-Fats Domino",saxed out bebop "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree-Dion,and any instrumental by The Ventures is a great buy bye me.

Enjoyable rockin' holiday hits
Whenever I'm putting together homemade tapes of Christmas music, this collection plays a major part in it. With the exception of the sound quality of Call Me For Christmas by Gary U.S. Bonds; this is a really good rock & pop collection of tinsel tunes. Highly recommended.