One attendee questions this: Bob Cratchit, owner of a spice company. Scrooge, the head of an unnamed advertising agency, has gathered a group of clients to discuss tying their products into Christmas. The single developed substantial popularity despite efforts from the advertising agencies of the era to suppress its release and promotion through the usual channels such as radio, print media and television (a few radio stations defied their sales departments, enough for the song to become a regional hit, as high as #3 on Los Angeles radio charts). The sketch adapts two characters from Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge (Freberg) and Bob Cratchit (Butler). dollar sign refer to the theme of the sketch, the over-commercialization of Christmas. This and the replacement of each "s" in "Christmas" with a U.S. currency at that time (and still predominant today). The title is wordplay on the phrase "green Christmas", a Christmas with no snow, with "green" taking on a double meaning of the green ink uniformly used on U.S. Other vocal performances are by Daws Butler, Marvin Miller, Will Wright, and the Jud Conlon Chorale. Musical arrangement and direction is made by Billy May, and performed by the Capitol Records house orchestra. " Green Chri$tma$" is a comedy single written and performed by Stan Freberg and released by Capitol Records in 1958 (catalog number F 4097). 1958 single by Stan Freberg "Green Chri$tma$"