Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huntington, W. Va., Lawrence H. Rogers, vice president of station WSAZ and WSAZ-TV, banned the song / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus because "it violates a provision against songs in which children describe parents' misconduct, and implies an insult to Santa Claus and the sacred occasion of Christmas...
...singing a joyous song...
Radcliffe's annual "Drumbeats and Song" has its book and lyrics set and ready for production, Gwen Brigham '53, Grant-in-Aid chairman, announced yesterday...
Across the U.S. last week, air waves, nurseries and barrooms echoed with a song called / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. To a tune that is basically old reliable corn syrup, with occasional chorus and chime effects added, it tells the story of a child who does some Christmas Eve snooping when he (she) should have been asleep. Nothing else in the lyrics is quite up to the title-line. Sample...
Jimmy is brighter than the boy in I Saw Mommy, etc. He knows who Santa Claus is. But even Jimmy was surprised by the success of the song. "I like it personally," he says, "but I didn't think anyone would...