I Am Santa Claus


I Am Santa Claus is the second Christmas album by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio. It was released in November 1993 by Atlantic Records, five years after Twisted Christmas, and four years before More Twisted Christmas.

Track listing

  1. "There's Another Santa Claus" - 2:01
  2. *
  3. "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear" - 1:55
  4. * performed by a-capella group Fifth Inversion
  5. "I Am Santa Claus" - 3:22
  6. *
  7. *A music video was made for the title track, in which Rivers, playing a father of two, inexplicably transforms into a heavy-metal Santa Claus riding in a reindeer-pulled limousine on Christmas Eve. In a meta-cameo, Ozzy Osbourne, in a black-and-white universe watching the video on a television, angrily turns the TV off, transforming metal-Santa back into Rivers.
  8. "Manger 6" - 0:44
  9. *
  10. "O [Little Town of Bethlehem]" - 2:09
  11. *
  12. "I Came Upon a Roadkill Deer" - 3:01
  13. *
  14. "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator" - 1:25
  15. *
  16. "Grahbe Yahbalz" - 1:08
  17. *
  18. "A Letter to Santa" - 2:41
  19. *
  20. "Jingle Hells Bells" - 2:38
  21. *
  22. "The Kids" - 2:18
  23. * spoken by Bob Rivers
  24. "The Magical Kingdom of Claus" - 5:53
  25. *
  26. "The 'What's It to Ya' Chorus - 2:37
  27. *
  28. "Didn't I Get This Last Year?" - 3:22
  29. *
  30. "The Under the Tree World of Jacques Cousteau" - 3:02
  31. *
  32. "O Christmas Tree" - 2:33
  33. * Instrumental set to the sounds of chainsaws.

Critical reaction

wrote in the Baltimore Sun that "Rivers' idea of 'funny' generally seems the work of a guy who's read too many issues of Mad magazine, but there are some good bits here." Helen Bryant of The Dallas Morning News wrote "Irving Berlin, it's not" while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the album "this year's hip offering."

Chart performance

By late December 2003, the album had already sold more than 100,000 copies. I Am Santa Claus entered the Billboard Top Albums chart at #180 before peaking at #106.