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This 1963 follow-up to the Stax Queen of Soul's 1961 Top 10 hit "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" failed to make the charts, but it's the gift that keeps on giving: a Christmas classic to charm every demographic.ĪMERICANA AWARDS: Stax legend Carla Thomas, Queen of Memphis Soul, receives Americana honor, performs at Ryman Booker T. Released in 1957, its 12 tracks range from reverent ("Silent Night") to rollicking ("Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me"), but only this cut by "Hound Dog" composers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller makes the case that you can't spell Xmas Eve without S-E-X, as Santa Elvis - arriving in "a big black Cadillac" - implores his baby to: "Hang up your pretty stockings/ And turn off the light/ Santa Claus is comin'/ Down your chimney tonight."ĮLVIS PRESLEY: The Elvis archive: Inside Graceland's private vaults Carla Thomas, 'Gee Whiz, It's Christmas' The third LP released by Memphis' most famous resident ever, the unimaginatively if helpfully titled "Elvis' Christmas Album" remains not only Elvis Presley's most popular long-player (with more than 20 million copies sold) but the best-selling Christmas album in the U.S. HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021: Some of our favorite items for everyone on your listĮATING OUT ON CHRISTMAS DAY: Here are the Memphis restaurants that will be open Elvis Presley, 'Santa Claus Is Back in Town' We've supplied the songs it's up to you to spike the eggnog. Call it a Memphis soundtrack for the season. The variety is endless.īut this is Memphis, so here is a Memphis mixtape - 12 recordings (but no cover of "The 12 Days of Christmas") that exist courtesy of artists, studios and/or record labels from Memphis and the Mid-South. But what does "holiday music" mean?Ĭhristmas carols sung by a choir.