Re: Black Santa: song by Phantom Tollbooth author, “Dr. BLT,” (featured as one-song “soundtrack” on PT article), hits #21 on top 50 download chart.
Black Santa, a song written and recorded by Phantom Tollbooth writer, Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT, featuring Michael C. made it’s debut on a top 50 download chart at mp3000.net over the holidays, nearly 15 years after the song was originally recorded. The song peaked as high as #21 a few days before Christmas of ‘05, raising it above John Lennon’s perennial Christmas classic, And So This Is Christmas, and just one notch below the latest tune from Eminem, When I’m Gone, which has since climbed into the top ten on that same chart. Black Santa, aka The Black Santa Song, then dropped off that chart two days after Christmas Day. The song is based upon a humorous, fictional conversation between an African-American man applying for a job as Santa Claus, and a Caucasian department store manager (played/rapped by Dr. BLT in the song), who is anxiously trying to find another place in the store for this man.
Black Santa was first introduced to the public via this Phantom Tollbooth article:
http://www.tollbooth.org/2004/features/nkc.html
Dr. BLT is not sure how the song ended up as a download at www.mp3000.net because he did not personally send it to that site, a site that posts and tracks the progress of thousands of mp3 songs. Yet, while he is grateful that they have been instrumental in making the song a hit, he is against some of the sexually suggestive photos displayed there to lure visitors to a dating service that is one of the sponsors of the site. So, instead of referring interested parties to mp3000.net, the rock doc suggests accessing the song via this link:
Black Santa
words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT, featuring Michael C.
http://www.drblt.com/music/Black%20Santa.mp3
(Or via the Phantom Tollbooth article linked above)
Dr. BLT realizes that the song appeared on a most popular downloads site and not in Billboard, but he has high hopes of the song eventually becoming at least an underground Christmas classic.
For more information, please reply to this e-mail or call Dr. BLT Music:
(661) 588-5537
