I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | Christmas song written
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” is a Christmas song.
The original recording by Jimmy Boyd reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1952, and on the Cash Box magazine chart at the beginning of the following year.
Jimmy Boyd’s record was actually banned by the Catholic Church in Boston when it was first released on the grounds it mixed sex with Christmas. Boyd aged thirteen was widely photgraphed meeting with the Archdiosis to explain the song.
Other versions of the song were recorded through the years by the likes of The Jackson Five, John Mellencamp (the most played rendition on all-holiday-all-the-time radio formats), the Hampton String Quartet (the title track of their album, “What if Mozart Wrote ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’?”), Jessica Simpson, and Twisted Sister on their 2006 A Twisted Christmas album. Phil Spector recorded “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” with the Ronettes.
Comedian Kip Addotta recorded a parody called I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus that gets played during Christmas time on the Dr. Demento radio show.
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