Thursday, December 25, 2025
Time: 11:10 PM
Song: Santa Claws Is Coming To Town
Artist: Alice Cooper
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Alice Cooper’s radio show on the way home from family Christmas celebration.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/23L3lZfC8tjIBDZhl0odQ1?si=863657dcf05941b2
Alice Cooper introduced this song as one of the weirdest collaborations that he ever did, and then mentioned some of the artists/producers that he worked with to make this song. None of the names range a bell, and they’ve already left my head.
He thought it was a strange song, and that he personally didn’t quite understand why some people liked scary stories around Christmas. This song is about a deranged version of Santa who enters houses and murders everyone.
It starts out by emphasizing that they are spelling the last name C-L-A-W-S. Just so you know that it’s not Santa Claus.
When I was in grade school, maybe third or fourth grade, I was invited to spend the night at the home of one of the boy’s in my class whose name was Joey. I don’t really know how this came about. While we were always amicable acquaintances, I wouldn’t say we were ever really close friends.
The only thing I can think of is that we were on the same Little League team for a couple of years, and we were two of the kids on the team from the same grade school, so perhaps it was during this period of time and we had bonded a little bit because we didn’t really know the other boys at all.
Anyways, I stayed there, and while I remember very little from that night, I do know the night finished with us watching “Tales from the Crypt” in his living room.
I am sure this was my first exposure to this show, although I don’t remember being frightened by any of it. Likely, as much of the horror genre, I probably found it a bit hokey and comical.
The only thing that stands out from the show is that during one of the episodes, the skeletal Cryptkeeper was dressed in Santa garb. Nothing else remains in my memory from that night or the shows.
I guess Alice Cooper is right, there is a vein of society that likes to combine Christmas with the macabre.
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