2025 Christmas Video Mixtape!
Holiday greetings from the one and only VJ Big Suit
Well, friends, Christmas is nearly upon us. In just a few short days, it'll be safe to enter a retail establishment without absorbing the ambient anguish of employees who've been abused with the same 15 goddamn songs for the duration of every shift since the day after Thanksgiving, and we'll need to face an uncertain new year with as much optimism as we can muster.
Until then, however, it remains incumbent upon us to fatten up and be festive in the spirit of the season — and to that end, I'm proud* and pleased** to present this year's Christmas Video Mixtape, brought to you courtesy of the demented madman who calls himself VJ BigSuit. He's well known to longtime readers as an early (and continued) proponent of Mellowmas, and he's also a regular fixture on the Jefitoblog Discord, which is where he initially deposited the bounty that's about to be bestowed upon you. I initially assumed he meant for this to be shared exclusively with the paying subscribers on the Discord, but he's apparently in an extra giving mood, because he asked me to make it available to one and all.
What you've got here is two hours and 20 minutes of holiday music videos, interspersed with classic commercials, presented as one long dance mix. If you know Mr. BigSuit, then I probably don't need to tell you that some of these songs are... non-traditional, but that's just part of the fun. (Don't tell him I said that.) Download link and track listing below. Enjoy, and feel free to tip your VJ in the spirit of the season — his info's at the bottom of the post:
CBS Seasons Greetings promo by R.O. Blechman 1967
GAYLA PEEVEY I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas [The Ed Sullivan Show] 1953
BUCK OWENS AND HIS BUCKAROOS Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy [The Jimmy Dean Show] 1965
RED STATE UPDATE Christmas on an Island With a Martian and Gorilla 2010
CHISSUM WORTHINGTON Chissum’s Sweet Baby Jesus Suite 2006, video 2010
THE MONKEES Ríu Chíu 1967
Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial 1986
MTV Christmas ID circa 1985
RUN DMC Christmas in Hollis 1987
TLC Sleigh Ride 1993
PAUL McCARTNEY Wonderful Christmas Time [N and D Swizz Beatz Refix] 1979
LIL’ JON ft KOOL-AID MAN All I Really Want for Christmas 2018
LOS DEL RIO Macarena Christmas [Joy Mix] 1996
Circuit City Christmas commercial 1998
THE REGRETTES All I Want for Christmas Is You 2017
DEEP CUTS Comatose Come Christmas [video: Josiah Hall] 2016 deepcuts.bandcamp.com
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Let’s Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas 1991
Sprite holiday commercial 1977
THE KINKS Father Christmas [Disco Vinnie hybrid] 1977
MICHAEL McDONALD Christmas on the Bayou [Disco Vinnie Remix] 2005
FRED SCHNEIDER AND THE SUPERIONS Fruitcake 2010
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO Linus and Lucy [Starting From Scratch Remix] [A Charlie Brown Christmas] 1965
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Deck the Halls 1984
André Champagne Christmas commercial 1973
TUXEDO Holiday Love 2015
DONNY HATHAWAY This Christmas 1970, video by Lonnie Milsap 2020
THE DRIFTERS White Christmas 1954, video by Joshua Held 2007
LEON REDBONE and DR. JOHN Frosty the Snowman 1989
LUSCIOUS JACKSON Let It Snow 1999
WING Santa Claus on a Helicopter 2010
COLDCUT Coldcut’s Christmas Break 1989
KURTIS BLOW Christmas Rappin’ [Digital Visions Remix] 1979
BONEY M. Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord [Disco Vinnie Remix] 1978
BAND AID Do They Know It’s Christmas? [Starting From Scratch Remix] 1984
SHAKATAK Happy Christmas to Ya! 1993, video by Manana Siradze 2021
PAUL McCARTNEY Wonderful Christmastime [Nothing But Funk Bootleg 2019]
WHAM! Last Christmas [Afro House Remix 2024] 1984
KYLIE MINOGUE Hot in December [Disco Vinnie hybrid] 2015
THE PEACHES Christmas Wrapping 1994
THE FREE DESIGN Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas) 1968, video by Codi von Richthofen 2016
MIKE OLDFIELD In dulci jubilo 1975
SQUEEZE Christmas Day 1979
Woolworths Christmas LP commercial w Joe Brown 1983
SLADE Merry Xmaƨ Everybody 1973, video by Matthew Robins 2021
GREG LAKE I Believe in Father Christmas 1975
WIZZARD I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 1973
DARLENE LOVE w PAUL SHAFFER, LITTLE STEPHEN and THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) [The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon] 2024
Toys “R” Us Christmas commercial 1976
DAVID BOWIE and BING CROSBY Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy [Bing Crosby’s Merrie Old Christmas] 1977
PERRY COMO (Organ and choir conducted by RUSS CASE) Silent Night 1946 [pantomime by Stella and Ella Brown, year unknown]
HENRIETTA AND MYRNA NEUDORF Go Tell It on the Mountain year unknown
Atari 2600 Christmas commercial 1981
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Sequenced, segued and mixed by VJBigSuit in and for 12/25
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