Dr. Elmo Shropshire explained the creative differences that led to the decision in a 2015 interview Kevin Mazur/Getty; Phil Roman Entertainment In the early 1980s, Dr. Elmo Shropshire rose to fame for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tongue-in-cheek song about an intoxicated grandma getting run over by Santa's reindeer has been a holiday staple for 45 years.

With more than 11 million copies sold, the kooky country Christmas classic that is “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” is a musical gift that keeps on giving—and that can never be returned. It’s the ...

The best-known Christmas song from Texas has it all: elves, eggnog, Santa and a runaway sleigh and reindeer that flattened poor Grandma. In December 1977, young Dallas folk singer Randy Brooks and his ...

The Christmas song everybody has an opinion about, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” has a surprising Sonoma connection. Gary Potterton, lead guitar player in a few bands that play in the Valley ...

There will be times, during the renowned charity band Holiday Express’s whirlwind tour throughout New Jersey this month, when the crowd isn’t quite feeling it at first. After all, these audiences ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You have probably heard the song, "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer", but have you thought about the repercussions Santa Claus would be facing if he really did run over a grandmother ...

CAMBRIDGE — Henry VanDyke was struck by a creative thunderbolt eleven years ago. His family has been playing his Dorchester version of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” every Christmas since. But ...

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 ...

The tongue-in-cheek song about an intoxicated grandma getting run over by Santa's reindeer has been a holiday staple for 45 years. Its origins date way back to 1978, when Dr. Elmo Shropshire was ...