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Official record

The Naughty List.

Songs that will never, ever play on Tinsel & Tunes. Every one of them got a fair hearing. We just couldn’t do it.

Appeals: not accepted

Arguments: lovingly encouraged

01Dominick the DonkeyLou Monte, 1960

An Italian Christmas donkey. We have questions. We will not be asking them on the air.

02Grandma Got Run Over by a ReindeerElmo & Patsy, 1979

A hit-and-run, played for laughs. Grandma deserved better. So do you.

03Jingle BellsThe Singing Dogs, 1955

Dogs are perfect. Dogs as a choir are not.

04The Christmas ShoesNewSong, 2000

Engineered in a lab to make you cry in a department store. Denied with prejudice.

05I Want a Hippopotamus for ChristmasGayla Peevey, 1953

A fine wish for a ten-year-old in 1953. A poor programming choice in 2026.

06The Chipmunk SongAlvin and the Chipmunks, 1958

Pitch-shifting is a production technique, not a personality.

07The Twelve Pains of ChristmasBob Rivers, 1987

Funny once, at an office party, in 1987. We were not at that party.

08Snoopy’s ChristmasThe Royal Guardsmen, 1967

A beagle in an aerial dogfight with the Red Baron. We respect the ambition. Still no.

09All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front TeethSpike Jones, 1948

Spike Jones was a genius. This is a dental appointment.

10Redneck 12 Days of ChristmasJeff Foxworthy, 1995

We are a Nashville station. We are begging you not to send us this.

11The Night Santa Went Crazy“Weird Al” Yankovic, 1996

We love Weird Al. Santa does not need this kind of press.

That’s the list. For now.

On probation.

Not banned. Not exactly welcome either. We’re keeping an eye on these.

Wonderful ChristmastimePaul McCartney, 1979

Under review since 1979. The synthesizer is doing a lot.

Anything NewPentatonix

You can’t put out a Christmas album every year and not be desperately reaching for material.

All I Want for Christmas Is YouMariah Carey, 1994

Cleared for broadcast. We just wish it would let a few other songs have a turn.

No hard feelings

Love one of these? We still love you.

Taste is personal, and Christmas is for everybody. These songs just aren’t our thing. Know one that belongs on this list? Tell us on Facebook. (Defending the donkey is also allowed.)

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Made with love (and strong opinions) in Nashville, Tennessee.