You are a travelling big band. You play the same standards every night. You get bored and uninspired, so you mix things up a bit.

The William Tell Overture on kitchen implements! A song called "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"!

This "Rudolph" was a top ten Billboard hit from 1950, just one year after Gene Autry's syrupy original.

https://archive.org/details/78_rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer_spike-jones-and-his-city-slickers-rudolph-himself_gbia0018975b

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