Season's Greetings! Each day in December leading up to Christmas, we'll be presenting another nugget of pop-Christmas magic: some of it good, some of it terrible, some of it by Bryan Adams. Enjoy!

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He's Gonna Take Away Our Christmas

Robert Goulet, 1969

I’ll cut right to the chase: a reindeer told Robert Goulet that Santa Claus, like the old testament God of the Israelites, is angry with the world’s evil and iniquity, and is therefore canceling Christmas indefinitely. Like a modern-day Jonah, Robert Goulet is burdened with the responsibility to go into the world and warn of Santa’s impending judgment. Wait — what the hell?