The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick (Capitol Records 1963) video free download

"Little Saint Nick" is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love and originally performed by their group The Beach Boys. It was first released as a single in December 1963, reaching number three on the Billboard Christmas charts and peaking at #69 on the regular weekly sales chart surveyed by Cash Box. Despite a media-hushed Christmas in mourning for recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, the single went into the Top Tens of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Vancouver and Washington DC, and the Top Twenties of San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Houston, Miami, and Springfield, MA. Eventually, over several more Christmases, it was credited as an unofficial (non-RIAA audited) million-seller. "Little Saint Nick" reappeared on The Beach Boys' Christmas Album in 1964, minus the overdubbed sleigh bells from the original single mix. The song borrows its rhythm and structure from the group's 1963 hit "Little Deuce Coupe." An alternate version, utilizing the melody from "Drive-In," was recorded for the album but remained unreleased until a 1991 CD reissue. The song is sometimes mistakenly called "Run Run Reindeer" because of the lyrics in the bridge. In 2005, the song was re-recorded by Brian Wilson for his solo Christmas collection, What I Really Want for Christmas.

The song is also used in a Coca-Cola holiday commercial featuring a family of polar bears who stumble upon a festive penguin gathering. Some versions of the song include the usage of a xylophone.

Oooooooo

Merry Christmas Saint Nick

Christmas comes this time each year

Well way up north where the air gets cold

There's a tale about Christmas

That you've all been told

And a real famous cat all dressed up in red

All he spends all year workin' out on his sled

It's the little Saint Nick

Little Saint Nick

It's the little Saint Nick

Little Saint Nick

Just a little bobsled we call the old Saint Nick

But she'll walk a toboggan with a four speed stick

She's candy apple red with a ski for a wheel

And when Santa hits the gas man just watch her peel

It's the little Saint Nick

Little Saint Nick

It's the little Saint Nick

Little Saint Nick

Run run reindeer

Run run reindeer

Whoaa

Run run reindeer

Run run reindeer

He don't miss no one