Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Christmas at Ground Zero\" is an original song by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, the tenth and final track on his 1986 album, Polka Party! and the final single from the album, released just in time for the 1986 Christmas season. It is done in the style of The Ronettes' numerous 1960s-era Christmas carols, with bells and a saxophone section, with a melody and meter loosely borrowed from the 1949 novelty song \"I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas\" by Yogi Yorgesson. It is one of Yankovic's darkest songs, alongside \"The Night Santa Went Crazy\" (another Christmas novelty song by Yankovic) and \"Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung\" from Yankovic's debut album.The expression \"ground zero\" was largely connected with nuclear explosions at the time this song was written. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term was co-opted by the media to refer to the large hole over which the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the attacks had stood. Due to the new associations of the title, Yankovic's song received far-reduced airplay from 2001 onward, but continues to appear in novelty programming such as the Dr. Demento show."@en }
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- Christmas_at_Ground_Zero abstract "\"Christmas at Ground Zero\" is an original song by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, the tenth and final track on his 1986 album, Polka Party! and the final single from the album, released just in time for the 1986 Christmas season. It is done in the style of The Ronettes' numerous 1960s-era Christmas carols, with bells and a saxophone section, with a melody and meter loosely borrowed from the 1949 novelty song \"I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas\" by Yogi Yorgesson. It is one of Yankovic's darkest songs, alongside \"The Night Santa Went Crazy\" (another Christmas novelty song by Yankovic) and \"Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung\" from Yankovic's debut album.The expression \"ground zero\" was largely connected with nuclear explosions at the time this song was written. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term was co-opted by the media to refer to the large hole over which the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the attacks had stood. Due to the new associations of the title, Yankovic's song received far-reduced airplay from 2001 onward, but continues to appear in novelty programming such as the Dr. Demento show.".