Oh, hellno,” he said. “We did our best because we were pros, but we just promptly forgot about it.” An unexpected hit Alternative Festive Songs To Freshen Up Your Christmas Playlist". HuffPost. December 18, 2017 . Retrieved December 26, 2022.

The song appears in numerous holiday-music compilations, including The Edge of Christmas, Dr. Demento's Holidays in Dementia, and Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection. [14]

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Maybe that’s the universal,” he said. “People want to know maybe that it’s going to be OK. It’s all going to work out.” Comedy Death-Ray Christmas CD". Earwolf.com. 2010. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010 . Retrieved December 5, 2010. Each festive season, Butler makes a donation to the Akron-Summit County children's library in the name of the first person to tell him they heard "Christmas Wrapping" on the radio. [6] Covers [ edit ]

The Waitresses Chart History (Holiday Digital Song Sales)". Billboard . Retrieved December 24, 2020. A Not So Silent Night". Revelation Films. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013 . Retrieved December 24, 2013. I finished the lyrics in the taxi on the way to the Electric Lady studios to record it. “A&P,” I wrote, “has provided me / With the world’s smallest turkey.” A&P were a downmarket US supermarket chain. When the Spice Girls covered the song, they changed it to Tesco. The title is a nod to Kurtis Blow, who’d just done Christmas Rappin’. Rap was the emerging sound of New York and it definitely influenced us. I got the jazzy melody on an acoustic guitar and Tracy ran with it brilliantly on bass. I crammed so many words in that, for the last verse, singer Patty Donahue couldn’t get her breath, so we had to put a break in. She was a trouper.Jane, Ally (December 6, 2013). "Video Vault, Episode 15: Save Ferris "Christmas Wrapping" ". 333sound. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013 . Retrieved December 24, 2013. It’s almost like I paid something forward to give me a slap in the face,” Butler said. “To say: Look, it’s going to be OK. Lighten up.”