I wanna be your Santa

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Pastiche-rockers The Krayolas follow a long line of Ramones-themed Christmas songs (more on that later) with their take on I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend. Krayolas' I Wanna Be Your Santa is a tad more polished than the Noo Yawk-punkrockers original.

A few years ago Krayolas tex-mexed this Rudolph-classic:

As said, Ramones are highly inspirational when it comes to Christmas songs. Of course, they wrote their own classic (see HERE), but hey ho let's go back to these versions:




No clue what they're on about, but the song and the title are great:
Bring back Joey Ramone! If only. But what a cool song:
EDIT: thanks to Jon Solomon (great blog!) I found more Ramones-themed xmas songs:







This phenomenal track by Sarita & The Happy Elves from 2012 is a great heartbreaking punk rock song about missing someone and playing the Ramones (and Damned, Pistols and Dead Boys) records the guy left behind:
From 2024, a take on the Ramones-track Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment:

Comments

Jon Solomon said…
I've got a whole slew of Ramones-inspired Xmas tunes I'm happy to share with you!
6:06 PM
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6:11 PM
Guuzbourg said…
Hey Jon, bring it on! Dringendgeval@hotmail.com is our email, but you can post it here as well
6:13 PM
Anonymous said…
Thank you for including the Krayolas (and Augie Meyers of SDQ on “Rudolph”). Great holiday sound choices. Gabba Gabba Ho, Ho, Ho. ❤️
3:10 PM
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