Retro Christmas Ad – MTV Promo Spot – Santa Claus, the Slam Dancer

/ Ray Van Horn, Jr.

You know I couldn’t let it get to Christmas without my annual posting of this classic MTV, Santa Claus, the Slam Dancer! I get all nostalgic every year thinking about when this first ran during Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes. I laughed so hard I woke my parents up at 1:00 a.m. It was the Christmas season, though, so all was right with the world regardless. When MTV was simply MUSIC.

–Ray Van Horn, Jr.

4 thoughts on “Retro Christmas Ad – MTV Promo Spot – Santa Claus, the Slam Dancer”

  1. I never understand why MTV decided to do more reality television and less… Music. I think most of us who grew up in that era would have been perfectly happy with music videos and concert specials instead of all the other non-music media they started bringing in during the 90s. Do they even have music videos anymore? I should probably check.

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    • I’m with you, bro. It’s been so bad even VH-1 has been more or less a commercials-in movie station. Absolute joke, both of them. I do see MTV has some music programming like hour-long condensed concerts and other blocks dedicated to current pop stuff, but not much else.

      I was offered an opportunity to pitch a reboot of “Headbangers Ball” when I was still in the business, but I think the executive I was dealing with either dismissed my pitch or ran with it. Either way, a losing effort.

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