I Saw Mommy Bury Daddy

Jimmy Boyd, original singer of the Christmas staple “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” has died of cancer at the age of 70. When released in 1952, the song was condemned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston – back when it still had room to point out other people’s foibles – until it was explained that it wasn’t really Santa. But, if they “didn’t see me creep, down the stairs to have a peep,” what kind of kinky games was Mommy playing with Daddy dressed in a red velvet suit and beard? Other pop culture touches included playing a biology student who wanted to learn about a planet where man evolved from apes in Inherit the Wind, two years as Mr. Batgirl, while married to Yvonne Craig, and a budding music career crushed by his loyalty to Mitch Miller, who still expects this rock n’ roll fad to pass any day now.