DEF: Elmo & Patsy “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”

Though they originally released the song on their own independent record label in 1979, Elmo & Patsy didn’t become a national phenomenon with “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” until the song’s release by major recording label Epic in 1984. In the more than three decades since then, the song has become a staple on Christmas radio, and in the late 1990s, it even appeared for a week on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Today, in commemoration of Christmas Eve, “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” by Elmo & Patsy is the Daily Eighties Flashback.