And for some reason, many of the rich, powerful rock stars, who in their sexual primes could presumably sleep with anyone they chose, gravitated toward girls not old enough to drive.
The Beatles' opening track on their debut album, "I Saw Her Standing There," begins with the line, "She was just 17 / You know what I mean?" "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" idealizes future sexual potential ("Those little eyes so helpless and appealing / One day will flash and send you crashing through the ceiling"). Chuck Berry released "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958. Pop culture's fascination with teenagers is nothing new. Often, it seems, those women were underage - girls, not women. To paraphrase from the song’s lyrics, this year has been a busy blur, I often don’t have the energy, and Xmas may not be my favorite holiday, but whether on STUCK IN THE 80s or away from the show, I can’t imagine getting through any holiday season without the original version of “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses.Browse through the annals of rock history, and you'll find, just right of the spotlight, the women with whom the most famous and sexually appealing men of the era chose to spend time. “Christmas Wrapping” has been covered in recent years by the likes of the Spice Girls, the Ska band Save Ferris, Kate Nash, The Donnas, Martha Wainwright, the cast of GLEE, and by the unlikely pairing of Iggy Pop and Kylie Minogue for Kylie’s 2015 seasonal album, KYLIE CHRISTMAS. singles chart in 1982, and eventually found its way on many Xmas compilations over the years and was even featured in a Visa Bank Americard commercial in 2013. Well, coping with Christmas or not, “Christmas Wrapping” reached No. It wasn’t about joy, it was something to cope with.” Everybody I knew in New York was running around like a bunch of nerds. The band’s Chris Butler once explained in 2005 that the lyrics for “Christmas Wrapping” came from “just very much that for years I hated Christmas. It was described as “the first-ever Alternative Christmas album.” In 1981, the band’s label, ZE Records, asked each of its artists to record a Christmas song for the label’s Christmas compilation, A CHRISTMAS RECORD, which would also feature artists like Bill Laswell, Nona Hendryx and Was (Not Was).
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The voice of The Waitresses was the late, great Patty Donahue, who sadly passed away from lung cancer 20 years ago at the age of 40.ġ982’s “I Know What Boys Like” was the band’s lone hit, and they were responsible for the theme song for the short-lived but fun series, SQUARE PEGS (starring a young Sarah Jessica Parker), and even appeared in the TV show, but it was this holiday gem that has held a place in my heart for a very long time. You know it’s STUCK IN THE 80s’ Annual Holiday Show when this song, “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses opens the show! This was released as a 7” single in 1981 and as part of their 1982 EP (with one of my favorite titles ever), I COULD RULE THE WORLD IF I COULD ONLY GET THE PARTS.įormed in 1977 and disbanded by 1984, The Waitresses were a New Wave / Post-Punk band from Akron, Ohio (like fellow New Wavers Devo), and was led by guitarist / songwriter Chris Butler. Happy Holidays! Since it’s the first year of my blog, and since it’s the last year for my Annual Holiday Show on my little 20-year-old 80s radio program, STUCK IN THE 80s (on WMPG community radio in Portland, Maine), I wanted to present to you THE 31 DAYS OF 80s XMAS SONGS, or, 31 of my favorite 80s holiday musical treats.
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