The Kinks' "Father Christmas," which was released as a single on Nov. 25, 1977, is a rather unlikely holiday song. For starters, the song's premise is anything but festive. The protagonist is in ...

Meanwhile the treacly sentiments common to most December perennials are doused by a cold dose of reality courtesy of Kinks’ frontman Ray Davies. In England, Father Christmas is the ...

One of the few exceptions was that WAPS, a local radio station in Akron, would always play the Kinks’ “Father Christmas.” Forget all the gushy mumbo-jumbo and crass commercialism—as befits ...

Click on Contact Us at the bottom of the page. (Soundbite of song, "Father Christmas") THE KINKS: (Singing) And knocked my reindeer to the floor. They said, Father Christmas, give us some money.