Dr. Elmo

Lexington, KY, local Elmo Shropshire is way better referred to as Dr. Elmo, the whimsical personality who has offered a lot more than ten million copies of the vacation novelty music “Grandma Got STEPPED ON with a Reindeer.” After making a veterinary medication level in Kentucky, Elmo journeyed along the East Coastline maintaining thoroughbred racehorses. He later on relocated to San Francisco’s Bay Region to open up his own pet hospital even though moonlighting playing celebrations and clubs inside a bluegrass music group along with his wife Patsy. In 1979, Elmo & Patsy launched “Grandma” on the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA radio train station. It quickly became a local hit, as well as the duo started playing more vacation gigs around city to aid the solitary. When an activist group, dubbed the Grey Panthers, accused Elmo & Patsy of playing “ageist music” and arrived to picket among their displays, the media arrived in force, sketching the interest of major brands. In 1983, MTV started airing the video, which Elmo & Patsy experienced financed independently. A year later on their Grandma Got STEPPED ON with a Reindeer recording made an appearance on Epic and a fresh “Grandma” single premiered, this time around with “Percy, the Puny Poinsettia” as the B-side. Elmo & Patsy would ultimately divorce, but Elmo would keep on as Dr. Elmo and discharge his debut single record, Slices of Lifestyle, in 1991. Many novelty albums would stick to, with Dr. Elmo launching his very own Grandma Got STEPPED ON with a Reindeer record in 2002, plus he added a Halloween strike to his repertoire in 2006 using the name monitor to his Redneck Dracula record. By 2007, Dr. Elmo continues to be touring along with his current wife Rita Abrams. Pop historians might keep in mind Rita as the Miss Abrams in Miss Abrams as well as the Strawberry Stage 4th Grade Course, the action behind the 1972 strike “Mill Valley.”