No, really. It's entirely less creepy than it sounds.
Started in 1960 by the students from Snyder Hall at the University of Illinois, residents from the building man phones around the clock while rockin' around the Christmas tree, taking calls and requests all day, all night, to sing any holiday song you ask. They don't promise you'll get someone on the other end of the line with the pipes of Aretha Franklin or Nat King Cole--but that's sort of the charm, isn't it?
In terms of popularity, it's fairly clear which song wins. A few years ago, the singing students started a Mariah Meter in order to count how many times Mariah Carey's famed, perky, holiday earworm "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was requested. Last year it was asked for 339 times, almost as often as it can be heard during drunken holiday karaoke at Chinese food restaurants.
So if you're feeling a Christmas groove coming on at 3am during a moment of insomnia, you have until December 16th at 11:59pm to call in a request, when phones close for another year.
The number?
(217) 332-1882
Request "Good King Wenceslas" if you know what's good for you.
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