Ok, me and 3 other guys I work with did this last year and it worked pretty well.
We decided to record a Christmas album.
We were all bartenders at the same bar, so we gave ourselves a name, "The Tenders"
The name of the album, " Of all the Christmas songs we know, these are some of them"
We then downloaded a Karaoke program off the internet with a bunch of Chrismas songs.
We honestly tried to sing our best, If we cracked up laughing we would start over. Mind you "our best" was god awful.
(did I mention we were drinking heavily?)
We each sang 2 songs and tried a group singing of Silent Night.
We bought 100 blank CDR's and CD cases and a label making program. A simple photoshop for our CD and CD holders. So every CD was stamped and every CD case looked like a real CD.
Now came the hard part. Keeping a strait face as we handed them out like we were serious about out talent. We never told anyone it was a joke at all. People would come up to us and tell us it was the funniest thing ever. Our reply, " What is so funny about Christmas music?" We seriously had 2 friends who had to pull off the side of the road while driving because they were laughing so hard. Honestly we never meant to kill anyone. We expected deportation, but not death.
We hande them out to everyone, customers, friends, bosses, grandparents............ We made 100 and ran out fast, people were mad if they didn't get one. People were borrowing others just to copy the CD. One friend says it's his favorite Chrismas CD because he can sing along and sound good.
What we were going to do but didn't was to Google a random person in the USA and send them a CD with the message, " thank you for subscribing to the Tenders music library, send no money as we will bill your credit card automatically. You will recieve 2 CD's a month. Your next CD, "The Tenders sing the best of Yentl" will arive in about 2 more weeks. Once again send no money, you will see $49.95 a month on your credit card statement"
Of course we were not going to bill them.
So, if you have some no talent singing frinds that would make that asian guy from American Idol puke, a lot of beer, the ability to not take yourselvs too seriously, and the ability to keep a straight face................
This is the Christmas idea for you.
Tapakeg:rofl
