What’s worse than bad Christmas music? How about bad Christmas music as played by people pretending to be dead rock stars? Awesome! Just in time for the Christmas shopping holidays that begin immediately sometime right before or after Halloween, it’s Winter Dance Party, comprised of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper impersonators. If you’re guessing that somewhere in this disc you’ll hear Christmas chestnuts played in the style of “Peggy Sue,” “La Bamba,” and ahhh…..hmm…whatever else it was Big Bopper did that wasn’t “Chantilly Lace,” then you’ll be absolutely wowed by this collection. So yeah, it’s another quick Christmas cash-in with the likes of “Let It Snow,” “Feliz Navidad,” “We Three Kings,” “Silent Night,” and the rest done up dead guy-style. But hey, at least you know these impersonators are the only group officially sanctioned by the surviving families of the deceased to rock such a crazy thing. Completely unnecessary in every way imaginable. (Day Old Records)
