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Santastic! Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings

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I first became aware of mash-ups when a Google search for The Beatles Christmas album led me to the website of Go Home Productions . I found "Beatles Bootles", a clever mix of Beatles songs with other songs to create a 15 minute extravaganza. What caught my attention was "Christmas On The Block", a mash-up of Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" and Jennifer Lopez's "Jenny From The Block". This led me into the world of Christmas mash-ups. Shortly before Christmas, 2004, I downloaded a full Christmash CD online entitled "Merry Christmash" from a now-defunct site from the UK. I also purchased a mash-up CD entitled " A Mutated Christmas ". This led me to GYBO , the holy grail web site for bootleg / mash-ups. You can probably spend around 40 hours here listening to amazing mixes of whatever musical genre you can think of. This led me to a name that I recognized from the earlier Christmas CDs. A Boston masher...