Elmo & Patsy is tagged as: christmas, holiday, country, xmas, quirky Lexington, KY, native Elmo Shropshire is better known as Dr. Elmo, the whimsical character who has sold more than eleven million copies of the holiday novelty song ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.’ After earning a veterinary medicine degree at Auburn University, Dr. Elmo was a veterinarian at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga racetracks in New York. He later moved to San Francisco’s Bay Area to open his own animal hospital and while moonlighting playing festivals and clubs in a bluegrass band. In 1979, he introduced ‘Grandma’ on a San Francisco radio station. It quickly became a regional hit, and the Elmo began playing more holiday gigs around town to support the single. When an activist group, dubbed the Gray Panthers, accused the duo of playing ‘ageist music’ and showed up to picket one of their shows, the media came out in force, drawing the attention of major labels. In 1983, MTV began airing the self financed video. A year later their Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer album appeared on Epic and a new ‘Grandma’ single was released, this time with ‘Percy, the Puny Poinsettia’ as the B-side. Dr. Elmo released Twisted Tunes in 1991. Numerous holiday albums would follow, with Dr. E... Read More About Elmo & Patsy Biography...  Send Elmo & Patsy ringtones to your cell
|
|
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||
