Songs & Singles: R

• Rain On Christmas (David Sanborn, 1982)
• Rain, Sleet, Snow (Paul Revere & The Raiders, 1967)
• Rappin' Christmas (Cold Crew, 1982)
• Real Meaning Of Christmas (Nino & The Ebb Tides, 1958)
• Rebel Jesus
  • Jackson Brown (1997)
  • The Chieftains with Jackson Brown (1991)
  • Ivan & Alyosha (2011)
  • Violets (1994)
  • Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken (2005)
• Red Bird (Lisa Mychols & Super 8, 2020)
• Red Bows (For A Blue Girl) (JD McPherson, 2019)
• Red Christmas (Insane Clown Posse, 1994)
• Red Lights (Merry Christmas) (Dreams So Real, 1988)
• Red Poinsettia (Juliana Hatfield, 2020)
• Red Suit (Josh Rouse, 2019)
• Reggae Christmas (Bryan Adams, 1985) [close]

  Yes, Bryan Adams - the Canadian rocker of renowned mediocrity - cut a holiday record I cherish. "Reggae Christmas" is, in fact, best remembered as the b-side to a truly excrable ballad, "Christmas Time." Adams and company, however, really have a blast on the faux rasta flip, and it's a record that I think you'll cherish, too. "Reggae Christmas" was originally issued as a fan club bonus single in 1984, and this rare issue is the one pictured. It was released one year later as the b-side to "Christmas Time" (click to see), and this is the most common version - and relatively easy to find on festive green-vinyl! Then, that single was issued yet again in 1986 with yet another new picture sleeve (click to see). "Christmas Time" has been issued on CD several times, including on Polygram's short-but-sweet Rock 'n' Roll Christmas Vol. 2 (1998). "Reggae Christmas," however, was only issued on CD once - and then on an incredibly scarce Japanese 3-inch CD in the same configuration as the 1985 "Christmas Time" single. Many years later, however, it was finally compiled on Adams' digital Christmas EP (2020).

• Reggae Christmas Eve In Transylvania (Count Floyd, aka Joe Flaherty, 1982)
• Reggae Christmas Medley (Shinehead, 1989)
• Regina Caeli (The Three O'Clock, 1986)
• Reindeer Boogie (Hank Snow, 1953) Top 100 Song [close]
  
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  Way before anyone had the bright idea to water down country music, someone decided to soup it up. Boogie woogie hoedowns like Hank Snow's supercharged 1953 Christmas single, "Reindeer Boogie," were briefly the rage in Nashville after World War II. These songs took the boundless energy of jump blues and married it to the timeless traditions of hillbilly music. Spade Cooley's "Three-Way Boogie" (1946), the Delmore Brothers' "Freight Train Boogie" (1946), and Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Shot-Gun Boogie" (1950) would be three fine prior examples, and Davis Sisters' "Christmas Boogie" - another Top 100 song - would emerge the following year. Needless to say, some folks frowned on that sort of musical integration, and cooler heads soon prevailed. Well, in Nashville at least. Elvis Presley and the rest of the country went another direction. "Reindeer Boogie" remains, though - all frantic fiddles and hot guitars, while Santa commands his team to "limber your legs and sharpen your hooves" and "get hepped up for that midnight race." Hot damn, I'll follow that lead!

  "Reindeer Boogie" was released both as a single (it did not chart) and as part of A Country Christmas With Hank Snow, a 7-inch EP in a die-cut, ornament-shaped sleeve - one of many released by RCA Victor around the same time. It was billed, formally speaking, to Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger, and The Rainbow Ranch Boys. Snow would later record a full album called Christmas With Hank Snow (1967), which included a new recording of "Reindeer Boogie." The complete contents of both the EP and the LP are found on Bear Family's Snow For Christmas. The original 1953 recording can also be found on Rhino's Hillbilly Holiday (1988), and Bear Family's Christmas On The Countryside (2017), as well as The Singing Ranger (1988), the first of several massive Bear Family boxed sets documenting the entirety of Hank Snow's long, long career. [back to list]

• Remember (Christmas) (Nilsson, 1972)
• Remember Love On Christmas Day (Thornetta Davis, 2009)
• Revolution Wonderland (The Weeklings, 2017)
• Ring A Merry Bell (June Christy, 1961)
• Ring Out Solstice Bells (Jethro Tull, 1976)
• Ring Those Christmas Bells (Peggy Lee, 1953)
• Ringing Bells On Christmas Day (Lisa Mychols, 2019)
• Ringing In A Brand New Year (Billy Ward & His Dominoes, 1953)
• Ringing The Bells For Jim (Johnny Cash, 1963)
• Ringo Bells (Three Blonde Mice, 1964)
• Rise Up Shepherds And Follow (Lisa Rhodes, 1984)
• Ríu Chíu (The Monkees, 1967) [close]

  The four Monkees performed this song a cappella on the Christmas 1967 episode of their trendsetting televison show. In fact, the studio recording - but not the TV show - featured producer Chip Douglas with Monkees Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones. The traditional Spanish carol had been selected by Douglas, who had earlier performed it himself with the Modern Folk Quartet. "Riu Chiu" was not commercially released, however, until Rhino's Missing Links Vol. 2 (1990), and later the label also included it on Billboard Family Christmas Classics (1995). Years later, "Riu Chiu" was cleaned up and remixed as a bonus track on the 2007 deluxe reissue of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967), and that version was included as a bonus track on an edition of the Monkees' Christmas Party (2018) initially sold only at Target stores.

• River
  • Sara Bareilles (2008)
  • Rosanne Cash (1995)
  • Ellie Goulding (2019)
  • Jillette Johnson (2014)
  • Aimee Mann (2005)
  • Joni Mitchell (1971)
  • Margo Price (2020)
• Rock 'n' Roll Christmas (The Connection, 2011)
• Rock 'n' Roll It's Christmas Time! (Bay City Rollers, 2014)
• Rock 'n' Roll Santa (Michael Des Barres, 2012)
• Rock 'n' Roll Santa (Little Joey Farr, 1960)
• Rock 'n' Roll Santa Claus (Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns, 1962)
• Rock 'n' Roll X-mas Party (Doro, 2024)
• Rock 'n' Roll-y Poly Santa Claus (Lillian Briggs, 1955)
• Rock and Roll Around The Christmas Tree (Merry Elves, 1964)
• Rock and Roll Christmas (Cordell Jackson, 1956)
• Rock and Roll Christmas (George Thorogood & The Destroyers, 1983) Top 100 Song [close]
  
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  One can almost imagine George Thorogood sitting around, counting those royalty checks from "Bad To The Bone," thinking to himself, y'know, George (being a big rock star now, he could address himself in the third person), no one's ever done a song called "Rock And Roll Christmas." And he was right - amazingly, no one ever had. At least, no one ever had a hit record with it. So, when the executives at EMI wanted a little something extra in their stockings, history - and this song - was written. Despite the calculated nature of the exercise, Thorogood's little year-end dividend works darn well. Setting rock lyric clichés ("I want a Chuck Berry record and picture of Elvis") to rock music clichés (a churning, bar-band beat not unlike, well, Chuck Berry or Elvis), Thorogood somehow makes it all sound quaint, charming and a whole lot of fun. Which, I should add, is not unlike his other records, and it's a strategy that made the Delaware native millions. Eventually, someone had to do it, and George Thorogood - seen at the time as a hero by working class rock fans - was the right man for the job.

  Having said all that, the song wasn't a hit. It appeared only as a 7-inch single backed with the raucous "New Year's Eve Party," and it spent several years wandering the desert until it started to show up on compilations like Billboard Rock 'n' Roll Christmas (1994), VH1: The Big 80's Christmas (2001), Southern Rock Christmas (2002), and Classic Rock Christmas (2015). In 2022, it appeared on a digital collection of his hits, The Original George Thorogood. [back to list]

• Rock and Roll In Christmas (Billy Burnette, 2011)
• Rock and Roll Santa (5.6.7.8's, 2003)
• Rock and Roll Santa Claus (Babs Gonzales, 1957)
• Rock Around The Christmas Tree (Jack Harrell, 1957)
• Rock The Christmas Cheer! (Bongos, 2023)
• Rock This Christmas Down (Lita Ford & Cherie Currie, 2013)
• Rockabilly Christmas (Johnny Cue, circa 1981)
• Rockabilly Christmas Ball (Dwight Twilley, 2004)
• Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
  • Ann-Margret with Sonny Landreth (2021)
  • Becky Barksdale (2001)
  • Justin Bieber (2020)
  • Taylor Dayne (2021)
  • Dion (1993)
  • Nicki French (1995)
  • Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) [close]

    Long after Bill Haley & His Comets helped kick-start the rock 'n' roll juggernaut with songs like "Rock The Joint" (1952), "Crazy Man Crazy" (1953), and "Rock Around The Clock" (1954), the band was briefly signed to United Artists in 1968. Their tenure produced just one unsuccessful single, "That's How I Got To Memphis," released in 1969 (and written by Tom T. Hall, by the way). But, they recorded more songs for United Artists - a fact revealed in 1992 by the EMI compilation Legends Of Christmas Past.

    The album includes two recordings by Bill Haley & His Comets that had been gathering dust in the vaults since 1968, no doubt intended for a holiday single that never happened. The tracks are fairly pedestrian covers of Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" and Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," but their historical significance makes up for it since they represent the only Christmas songs that Haley ever recorded with the Comets, formally speaking. Haley had, in fact, previously recorded a Christmas single back in 1951 for a little label called, appropriately, Holiday Records. But, it was credited to Bill Haley & The Saddlemen - and it consisted of two country weepers, "I Don't Want To Be Alone For Christmas" and "A Year Ago This Christmas." Shortly thereafter, the band renamed themselves the Comets and, well, the rest is rock 'n' roll history.

    Other than Legends Of Christmas Past, Haley's two United Artists holiday tracks have seldom been reissued. "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" - the better of the two - is also found on Capitol's Ultra-Lounge Christmas Cocktails 4, the final, digital-only volume of Capitol's landmark lounge series. Both songs also appear on a very rare German CD called Merry Christmas compiling 18 Haley-related holiday tracks including scratchy vinyl transfers of the Holiday sides and two tracks by "Bill Haley's Comets" recorded live in 1997, long after Haley's death in 1981.

  • Brenda Lee (1958) Top 100 Song [close]
    
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    While there are few honest-to-goodness rockabilly Christmas records, several top rockin' Christmas platters use rockabilly as a base. Brenda Lee's greatest hit is one of them, and her sprightly vocal - combined with chiming bursts of guitar - made "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" (written by Johnny Marks, who also penned "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer") an instant classic - at least in my mind. To the contrary, it took the public two years to accept Lee's arboreal ode, but when "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" hit, it hit big. First released on 45 in 1958, the song didn't chart till 1960 when it made #14 on the Billboard singles chart, and it charted again each of the next two years. In 1964, Decca built an album, Merry Christmas From Brenda Lee, around it, which reached #7 on Billboard's Christmas chart. Today, the song is spotlighted in MCA's superb Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings, which includes yet another of my Top 100 Songs. [back to list] [learn more]
  • Linda Lindas (2024)
  • Mel (Smith) & Kim (Wilde) (1987)
  • Partridge Family (1971)
  • Ronnie Spector & Darlene Love (1992)
  • Vice Squad (2010)
• Rockin' Bells (Bill Robbin, 1960)
• Rockin' Christmas Time [close]

  Steve Brown started out as guitarist for hair metal band Trixter, who came out of Paramus, New Jersey to score modest success with their self-titled 1990 debut album. But, they couldn't build on that success as metal got stomped nearly to death (and largely subsumed) by insurgent grunge and alternative rock. Trixter was over, pretty much, by the mid-90's, but Steve Brown - an enthusiastic, unironic, unapologetic rocker - stuck with it. He recorded "Rockin' Christmas Time" in 2003 with 40ft. Ringo, a new band he formed with fellow former Trixter P.J. Farley - though it appears to have been released only to radio stations and fans as a holiday promotion. In 2009, Brown reissued the exact same recording under his own name so, technically speaking, it was a reissue, not a new release - though Brown never said so in his publicity materials. Anyway, I'm no fan of hair metal (or "glam metal," as its proponents like to call it), but by this time Brown had shorn his shlong and cranked up the pop, and "Rockin' Christmas Time," well, rocks. Dude!

  Perhaps due to Brown's persistence, Trixter's reputation seems to have been burnished by time. In 2000, they were voted No. 29 on VH-1's Top 40 Hair Band Countdown - despite having never scored a major hit album or single. In 2008, they reunited and began touring and recording again. And then, in 2021, Brown issued "Rockin' Christmas Time" yet again with a new CD single and charmingly low budget video.
  • Steve Brown (2009)
  • 40ft. Ringo (2003)
• Rockin' "J" Bells (Little Bobby Rey & His Band, 1959)
• Rockin' Little Christmas (Deborah Allen, 1984)
• Rockin' Little Christmas (Carlene Carter, 1994)
• Rockin' 'n' Rollin' With Santa Claus (Hepsters, 1955)
• Rockin' Ol' Christmas (Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 2014)
• Rockin' On Top of the World (from "Polar Express") (Steven Tyler, 2004)
• Rockin' Santa Claus (Martels, 1959)
• Rockin' Santa Claus (Moods, 1960)
• Rockin' Through The Holidays (Charlie Faye & the Fayettes, 2021)
• (Rockin') Winter Wonderland (Fabulous Thunderbirds, 1983) Top 100 Song [close]
  
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  In 1983, the Fabulous Thunderbirds were between gigs. They'd come on like gangbusters for their first label, Chrysalis, waxing four hot platters of roots rock in just four years. Earning little more than critical acclaim, however, they were cut from from Chrysalis in 1982 and didn't release another album till 1986, when Epic's Tuff Enuff made them big-time rock stars. During their major label hiatus, they recorded two tracks for An Austin Rhythm 'n' Blues Christmas, a collection of local artists on tiny Austin Records, a locally-distributed Texas imprint. One of the T-Birds' efforts was an hellacious instrumental rendition of "Winter Wonderland" - an old Christmas standard that never actually mentions Christmas. Thanks to the band's later success, An Austin Rhythm 'n' Blues Christmas was reissued nationally by Epic, and the track was saved from obscurity. Powered by Kim Wilson's driving harp and Jimmie Vaughan's immaculate guitar - and anchored by spontaneous shouts of "Merry Christmas!" and "Feliz Navidad!" - "(Rockin') Winter Wonderland" sounds merrier and rocks harder than I had previously thought possible. [back to list] [learn more]
• Rocking Carol (New Order, 1982)
• Rollin' Into Christmas (Bay City Rollers, 2021)
• Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus
  • Tex Beneke (1951)
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford (1951)
• Round Christmas Time (Smoking Trees, 2014)
• Rub-A-Dum-Dum (Yobs, 1979)
• Ruby Left a Present Underneath the Christmas Tree (Too Much Joy, 2002)
• Rudolph The Manic Reindeer (Los Lobos, 1988)
• Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae (Paul McCartney, 1975)
• Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Gene Autry (1949)
  • Cadillacs (1956)
  • Ray Charles (1985)
  • Bing Crosby (1950)
  • Crystals (1963)
  • John Denver (1975)
  • DMX (2016)
  • Five For Fighting (2010)
  • Red Foley (1950)
  • Harlem Parlour Music Club (2010)
  • Corey Hart (1985)
  • Lena Horne (1966)
  • Burl Ives (1964)
  • Jack Johnson & The Roots (2013)
  • Daniel Johnston (1994)
  • Lemmy Kilmister & Billy Gibbons & Dave Grohl (2008)
  • Krayolas (2007)
  • Arthur Lyman (1963)
  • Billy May (1954) [close]

    Billy May is best known as a composer of movie and TV themes ("Batman" is the most famous) and as a bandleader who accompanied a who's who of vocalists including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Peggy Lee. But, May also put out records under his own name, and his wild mambo reinvention of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" demonstrates both his genius as an arranger and his well-regarded sense of humor. Billy May used a lot of humorous devices in his arrangements, and he often collaborated with comedian Stan Freberg. On "Rudolph," May's brassy, tropical arrangement is helped along by drummer Alvin Stoller's interjections, alternating between comic imitations of Carmen Miranda and Jerry Lewis.

    May recorded his "Rudolph" on October 4, 1953, but it was not released until 1954 (no idea why) when it appeared both as a Capitol single b/w "Loop-De-Loop Mambo" and on the collection Merry Christmas To You! (Capitol 9028, 1954). In the digital age, it has appeared on a number of compilations, most notably Rhino's Mambo Santa Mambo and Capitol's Christmas Kisses and Ultra-Lounge Christmas Cocktails.

  • Melodeers (1960)
  • Les Paul & Mary Ford (1955)
  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1999)
  • Smithereens (1992)
  • Temptations (1968) Top 100 Song [close]
    
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    Among the crown jewels at Motown Records, the Temptations were second only to the Supremes, and their 1970 LP, Christmas Card, is the merriest, mellowest of them all. Gene Autry introduced Johnny Marks' timeless tale, "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," nearly twenty years before the mighty Temptations transformed it into a lush soul ballad - and the standout track on a standout album. For me, this masterful arrangement - probably by Motown house producers Barrett Strong and Clay McMurray - has become the definitive version. The Temptation's voices (led by tenor Dennis Edwards) swirl and blend in sensuous ways that have little to do with the shiny proboscis of a flying rangifer tarandus. Improbably, the Temptations' "Rudolph" becomes a romantic record, a seductive slow-dance that lends itself to reindeer games of an entirely different sort. The song was released first as a single in 1968, then included on Christmas Card, and finally compiled on the essential Motown Christmas in 1973. [back to list] [learn more]
  • Hank Thompson (1964)
  • Ventures (1965) Top 100 Song [close]
    
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    The biggest charm of the Ventures' energetic instrumental reading of "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" lies not in the multi-guitar attack they bring to Johnny Marks' most famous composition, but in the gimmick they use to sell it. On this and other tracks from their classic 1965 LP, The Ventures' Christmas Album, the band grafts popular hits of the day onto Christmas classics. In the present case, they employ the Beatles' "I Feel Fine" (played at warp speed) as an introduction, and the resulting alchemy has always been my favorite song from a consistently great album.

    Other than guitarist Duane Eddy, the Ventures were the single most popular group of the rock 'n' roll instrumental craze that ran from the late 50's to the early 60's. That era gave us such immortal songs as the Champs' "Tequila," Link Wray's "Rumble," Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk," and the Surfaris' "Wipe-Out." But, wordless wonders like that began to sound antiquated after the British Invasion led by, ironically, the Beatles, and instrumental songs became novelties. In fact, the Ventures' career had peaked by 1965, and there would be few hits in their future. They would soldier on for decades, however, remaining a performing unit well into the 21st century. [back to list] [learn more]

  • Yobs (1991)
• Rudolph's Ruin (Wildebeests, 2000)
• Run Rudolph Run
  • Bryan Adams (1987)
  • Chuck Berry (1958) Top 100 Song [close]
    
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    I can think of nothing to say about "Run Rudolph Run" that could be more complimentary than that it sounds like Chuck Berry's other records - driving guitar rock accompanying droll, clever lyrics. Nearly middle-aged at the time, Berry spoke intelligently to teenagers in their own language, and he transformed the quaint story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer into a thrilling, space-age tale. Berry wrote the song himself but, to his eternal chagrin, he had to turn the copyright over to Johnny Marks, the guy who wrote the original "Rudolph." And, it wasn't a huge hit at the time, peaking at #69 on Billboard's pop chart. 100 Regardless, "Run Rudolph Run" went on to become one of rock's first Christmas standards, and it has been covered innumerable times, including by Chuck Berry acolytes like Keith Richards and Dave Edmunds. It can be found along with its b-side (a smoldering version of Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby") on both the MCA compilation, Rockin' Little Christmas - one of my Top 20 Albums, by the way - and Berry's own Chess Box. [back to list] [learn more]
  • Bomb Squadron (1996)
  • Brinsley Schwarz (1973)
  • Luke Bryan (2008)
  • Rocky Burnette (2008)
  • Dr. Feelgood (2006)
  • Dramarama (1992)
  • Ducks Deluxe (1975)
  • Dave Edmunds Band (1982) [close]
    
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    Pioneering UK roots rocker Dave Edmunds recorded Chuck Berry's classic "Run Rudolph Run" for the 1982 Arista soundtrack album Party Party, and he also released it that year as a Columbia single. In many ways, it's a tribute to Berry that Edmunds had been warming up to his whole career, and it's a cornerstone of any good 80's Christmas playlist. The song later appeared on several good Christmas compilations including A Different Kind Of Christmas (1994), Billboard Rock 'n' Roll Christmas (1994), The Edge Of Christmas (1995), and Classic Christmas 80's Album (Sony, 2015), as well as From Small Things: The Best Of Dave Edmunds (2004).

    But, there's a little-known early version of Edmunds' "Run Rudolph Run" recorded live on December 19, 1972 at the Patti Pavilion in Swansea, Wales, UK, during a concert hosted by Welsh progressive rock band Man. Former, current, and future members of the group are all over the resulting album, Christmas At The Patti. Man themselves only appear on two cuts, probably owing to the fact that the police shut down the gig just as the headliners were starting their set. The show also featured pub rock legends Help Yourself, a newly minted Ducks Deluxe, a band called the Jets (not the Samoan pop group, by the way), and the Flying Aces, which featured former Man bass player Martin Ace and his wife, Georgina, as well as former Man guitarist Deke Leonard and future Man guitarist Malcolm Morley. Significantly, everyone on the bill hailed from South Wales.

    Christmas At The Patti was first issued by United Artists in 1973 on two 10-inch records in a gatefold cover. Reportedly, it had a suggested list price of just £1.43 and topped the English budget album chart - facts I can't confirm. It was first issued on compact disc in 1997 on an indie label called Point, a subsidiary of Voiceprint. While not exactly a bootleg, this edition might not have been entirely authorized, as neglects to credit either United Artists or their parent company, EMI. That said, it was lovingly compiled with pictures from the original package plus newly written liner notes. The album was officially remastered in 2007 by Esoteric, a Cherry Red label, and later included in the Man boxed set, Original Album Series Vol. 2 (Parlophone, 2016), followed by a stand-alone digital release.

    
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    Anyway, despite appearances, Christmas At The Patti includes just one Christmas song on it - not counting the hilariously out-of-tune "Jingle Bells" with which Dave Edmunds introduces "Run Rudolph Run." But, his blazing version of the rock classic is almost worth the price of admission. Compared to Edmunds' 1982 studio recording, this "Rudolph" is decidely lo-fi, but it rocks a lot harder. Edmunds is backed by an ad hoc group called Plum Crazy - a Christmas pun, albeit one that only makes sense in the British Isles. The band includes guitarist Mickey Gee and current Man drummer Terry Williams, as well as the aforementioned Martin Ace on bass. Edmunds takes the first solo and Gee takes the second, for those of you following along at home.

    Mickey Gee had previously played with Dave Edmunds in the Human Beans, who recorded precisely one single in 1967. Both Gee and Williams had played with Dave Edmunds in Love Sculpture shortly before the group broke up in 1970. Then, Gee played on Edmunds' solo debut, "I Hear You Knocking," the Christmas #1 later that year. Later, Williams and Edmunds would later play together in Rockpile, a short-lived supergroup that also featured Nick Lowe and Billy Bremner. Mickey Gee would go on to play with Shakin' Stevens, Bill Wyman, Phil Everly, Carl Perkins, and many others, as well as both Edmunds and Lowe.

    But, having said all that, the CD liner notes claim that Plum Crazy had been a real concern circa 1968-1969, though they never recorded. The band was anchored by vocalist Plum Hollis (real name Tony Howells), who appears with the Jets on Christmas At The Patti and would later work for Joe Cocker and his backing group, the Grease Band. So perhaps this was a reunion of sorts... God bless us, everyone!

  • Dave Edmunds with Plum Crazy (1972)
  • Samantha Fish (2019)
  • Fleshtones (2008)
  • Foghat (1978)
  • Humpers (1993)
  • Mary Karlzen (original version, 1994)
  • Mary Karlzen (new version, 2003)
  • Steve Marriott (1976)
  • Keith Richards (1978)
  • Swon Brothers (2014)
  • KT Tunstall and Chris Leonard (2021)
  • Vice Squad (2015)
  • Whitney Wolanin (2013)
  • Dwight Yoakam (1997)
  • Yobs (1977)
• Run With The Fox (Chris Squire & Alan White, 1981)
• Runaway Christmas (Pencil Test, 1997)

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