"Christmas Time Again," El Vez (8408535 Records DK)

Some of you might remember El Vez, the Hispanic Elvis impersonator, from his Merry Mex-Mas album. He's kept performing all these years and for 2024 he's back with this cool pop-rockabilly song. I'm uncertain as to whether this is new, however, as he's dropped several other singles this year that go back to a 2002 album, Sno-Way José. These include versions of "Little Drummer Boy," "La Piñata," "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday," and an original "En El Barrio at Christmas Time," in the same Elvis style, the latter being a pastiche of popular carols overlaid with some solid rock guitar soloing. The original album also included "Cool Yule" and "The Dreydel Song," plus several live performances of "Blue Christmas," "Brown Christmas," "Lordy Miss Lupey" (a takeoff on "Little Latin Lupe Lu"), Stooges takeoff "Now I Want to Be Santa Claus," and "Hey Charlie, I'm Brown." At the moment, that full album is strictly from Discogs-land and the above-mentioned singles are all that's available, although I'll note that my research indicates not all of these songs are available on all platforms. Merry Mex-Mas, however, is up everywhere for streaming and downloads.