Lou Monte came out of left field with this quirky Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg and Wandra Merrell composition in 1960. It is another in a long line of ‘transportation’ related Christmas songs. Legend has it that the recording time and record production was financed by the Gambino crime family, I don’t know how much stock I take in the story. It is also another example of a song becoming a Rankin – Bass TV special, this one being the impetuous for 1977’s Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. For sheer silliness this is a great song and one that my kids love to make donkey sounds along to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrdxtWgHbE