community. However, the mail Freberg received from the public, including rabbis and Christian clergy, was overwhelmingly positive. Aftermath Within six months, Coca-Cola and Marlboro, both recognizably satirized in the record without being named, asked Freberg for advertising campaigns. He turned down Marlboro (Freberg, a devout Christian, was adamantly against promoting tobacco and alcohol products), but he created a campaign for Coca-Cola that was very effective. Contrary to the predictions of Lloyd Dunn (see above) and others, Freberg would become a prominent figure in advertising himself, producing several iconic advertisements in the 1960s and 1970s. Some years later, Time magazine was going to publish an essay in their Christmas issue about the overcommercialization of Christmas, including considerable attention to Green Chri$tma$. The essay was killed at the last minute due to pressure from their sales department. Rebroadcast and rerelease Of especially noteworthy importance is the impact of this song's message in the heart of corporate America, as reflected in the fact that it received no commercial AM radio airplay until 1983; only getting a little FM airplay before that (such as on the Doctor Demento Show) and only slightly more AM airtime after 1983, by which point AM radio as a music medium was becoming obsolete. Beginning in 1972, Capitol reissued the single as catalog number 3503, dividing the piece into two parts; it remained in the Christmas singles section of record stores for years thereafter. It can currently be found on Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time (1989), as well as several compilations of Freberg's output released by Capitol, including The Very Best of Stan Freberg (1998) and The Capitol Singles Collection (2009). Notes References Bibliography External links Web page with the original 45 RPM record jacket and a bit more detail American Christmas songs 1958 songs Comedy sketches Capitol Records singles Christmas novelty songs Stan Freberg songs Criticism of the commercialization of Christmas