Ho, Ho, Ho is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 of Christmas music

Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.-Early:...

 by American

United States

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 drag queen

Drag queen

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 and singer RuPaul

RuPaul

RuPaul Andre Charles , best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums. Previously, he was a fixture on the Atlanta...

, released on October 28, 1997 by Rhino Records.

Album information

The album was a combination of original music, standards and comedy

Comedy

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 vignettes. Most of the traditional songs were given a campy twist. The title is a double entendre

Double entendre

A double entendre or adianoeta is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic....

; though it is a phrase associated with Christmas, the term "ho" also refers to a whore or prostitute. The album's cover features three scantily-clad versions of RuPaul, and the back cover features her legs with panties

Panties

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 around the ankle

Ankle

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s; these are the "three ho's".

The album was tied-in to a television

Television

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 Christmas special from The RuPaul Show

The RuPaul Show

The RuPaul Show is an American talk/variety show that premiered on VH1 in 1996. Hosted by drag performer, RuPaul, the show had many famous musical guests and was notable as being one of the first national television programs in the United States hosted by an openly gay host...

on VH1

VH1

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. Much of the humor on the album is of a risqué nature, making it quite different from traditionally wholesome holiday albums. For instance, the classic "All I Want For Christmas" is turned into a thumping dance

Dance music

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 song with lyrical changes requesting breast implants, a tummy tuck and rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty

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, so that (as she sings) "I can look real purty!", and changing the lyrics of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is an American Christmas song with music and lyrics by Tommie Connor.The original recording by Jimmy Boyd on 15 July 1952 when he was 13 reached #1 on the Billboard charts in December 1952, and on the Cash Box chart at the beginning of the following year...

" to "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus".

Absent from the album is RuPaul's R&B version of "Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy

"The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry...

", which was recorded and released by Tommy Boy Records in 1993. The clashing of record labels with this album prevented its inclusion.

Track listing

Credits

• RuPaul - executive producer
• Latasha Spencer - performer
• Michelle Visage - performer
• Fenton Bailey - executive producer
• Randy Barbato - executive producer
• Pete Lorimer - arranger
• Richard "Humpty" Vission - arranger
• Dennis Mitchell - engineer
• Roger Arnold - assistant engineer, engineer, performer
• Brian Alex - assistant
• Kelly Bienvenue - assistant
• Lee Genesis - assistant
• Barbara Mitchell - assistant
• Yolanda Wyns - assistant
• Michael Hacker - producer, remixing
• Michael Rosenman - producer, remixing
• Joe Carrano - programming, producer, engineer, mixing
• Dan Hersch - mastering
• Rachel Gutek - design
• Hugh Brown - art direction

Chart positions

Chart (1997)	Peak position	Certification	Sales
Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	27	-	-