John Waters Covers 'Little Cindy,' John Waters (Sub Pop)

John's been on a bit of a Christmas novelty streak lately, and his latest effort is this 2025 cover of "Happy Birthday Jesus," performed by the above-mentioned Little Cindy. The original version appears on his A John Waters Christmas from a couple of decades ago, but I have to say it's one thing for this bit of kitsch to be presented without comment as it was originally, and another thing to reenact it. Nevertheless, there's an audience for this sort of thing and I'm happy for those folks to find this. Flip side is "A Pig Latin Visit From St. Nicholas," which is the holiday classic epic poem read, by Waters, in, wait for it, pig Latin. It's funny, but it's eight minutes long, which would make it a momentum stopper in your novelty playlists. It's on streaming but there's also a vinyl single available, click the cover to get it from Amazon.