M.C.Miker"G" & Deejay Sven* – Holiday Rap

Total cheeseball track (even back when it came out!), but I've always been a fan of the "Holiday Hip Hop Instrumental". Take away the awful vocals and you have a pretty decent instrumental...and plus it has some really cool extra drum sections that aren't in the vocal versions. Interestingly enough I first heard it back in the 80s when it was being used as background music on a TV weather channel where I grew up, and the extra drum sections intrigued me. It wasn't until years later when I stumbled across a used copy of the 12" that I figured out where they got that version from.

I'd love to use it in a mash-up someday, or even hear how the vocals from Madonna's original sound overtop.

Gotta say everyone seems to be missing the amazing b side from the legend Ben liebrand..... Whimsical touch is quality electro

"..AND WE TAKE A LITTLE PIECE OF AMSTERDAM..."
I caught 'this' on TOTP's one night.
This is what had me running from a dance-floor back then ?
Oh the piece of....
It's simple they were both stoned and thought this was A.....mazing ?
"ring rang dong for a hol-ee-day" in THAT accent & they thought 'wow' when they heard it ??
Electrica Salsa [Baa Baa Baa Baa !] is equally as funny/cool/bollox depending on where in Europe you come from too !

Sampled used in David S. Pumpkins sketch on SNL w/ Tom Hanks. Any Questions?

I'm keeping this record just in case I ever find myself djing for Tim Heidecker and/or Eric Wareheim.

Whimsical Touch is really good...

This is a really terrible record, obviously trying to captilise on the sucess of Early Hip-Hop such as the Sugerhill Gang - But that is why I love this record so much - so bad it's good! This record is to Hip-Hop what Ed Wood's movies were to cinema!

Just as every music lover has a guilty pleasure, almost every artist in the history of popular music has made a production, song or track that is considered to be a "flop" record: something that is an example of utterly bad taste, something fans will probably never forgive that the artist actually made it or something the artist will preferrably never be ed at. Ironically, these "flop" records tend to be the biggest hits in the career of that artist. For Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand (who produced and mixed this), this could probably be the one.

"Holiday rap" started out as a joke of two people rapping over an instrumental part of Madonna's "Holiday". The person who noticed them, liked the idea but was no producer, so he had to find one. Ben chose to use the same instruments as Jellybean used for Madonna; the resemblance became so close they got accused of having the track sampled.

The song was also inspiration for two comedians to write a Dutch language version of it (Haagse Harry & Hollandseveldse Hendrik "Hollandse Rep"). That one fights with the actual first Dutch language rap record (Danny Boy's "Repperdeklep" from 1980) for the honour of the silliest record made in the history of Dutch rap music. At a sudden, "Holiday rap" sound rather innocent...