A must-hear for fans of cartoon villains and/or villain songs.
I downloaded this album from a vinyl rip many years ago, fully expecting it to just be complete cheese. I didn’t listen to it until much later, and was surprised to see the title of this track. “That sounds like a villain song,” I thought, and lo and behold, not only was it a villain song, but a really good one- with a sneaky weasel to boot!
I just had to find out who wrote the song, so I looked at the back cover and was further surprised to find that almost all the songs were written by the Sherman Brothers! How this tune’s been undiscovered for so long I can’t imagine.
Further research revealed that there was an earlier, non-Christmas album by the Cabbage Patch Kids, with more Sherman Brothers songs (including another one featuring the villains), and that at one point elementary school kids were putting on stage versions of it! There was also an unrelated animated Christmas TV special that featured the same characters, albeit with a different voice cast (nixing Bo Weasel’s sly German accent).
It just goes to show, sometimes something that appears to be terrible on the surface might actually be surprisingly entertaining.