Dr. Elmo

About

Lexington, KY, native Elmo Shropshire is better known as Dr. Elmo, the whimsical character who has sold more than eleven million copies of the holiday novelty song 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.' After earning a veterinary medicine degree at Auburn University, Dr. Elmo was a veterinarian at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga racetracks in New York. He later moved to San Francisco's Bay Area to open his own animal hospital and while moonlighting playing festivals and clubs in a bluegrass band.

Top Tracks

1. 1

   Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

   14334 plays
2. 2

   Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer

   2650 plays
3. 3

   Grandpa's Gonna Sue The Pants Offa' Santa

   1356 plays
4. 4

   Grandma's Spending Christmas with the Superstars

   830 plays
5. 5

   Grandma's Killer Fruitcake

   744 plays
6. 6

   Grandpa's Gonna Sue the Pants off of Santa

   671 plays
7. 7

   Don't Make Me Play That Grandma Song Again

   638 plays
8. 8

   Send Me A Wife For Christmas

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