Is "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" really a bad Christmas song? When appearing on an episode of the Songwriter Connection Podcast, the song's sole writer, Randy Brooks, said the song came about ...

In the early 1980s, Dr. Elmo Shropshire rose to fame for his satirical Christmas song, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" In 2000, the song's action was turned into an animated holiday special, in ...

It started with a novelty songwriter stranded on a snowy night. Decades later, listeners still can’t get his tune, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” out of their heads. Randy Brooks was an ...

The votes are in, and Arizona Republic readers have selected their worst Christmas song of all time: a novelty record by Elmo & Patsy, a since-divorced husband and wife who self-released the song on ...

It was a longshot that a Christmas song about a sweet grandmother getting run over by one of Santa’s reindeer would ever make it to a recording studio. An even longer one that it might get airplay.