{"id":54260,"date":"2025-12-21T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/watch-cher-perform-dj-play-a-christmas-song-run-rudolph-run\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:58:31","slug":"watch-cher-perform-dj-play-a-christmas-song-run-rudolph-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/watch-cher-perform-dj-play-a-christmas-song-run-rudolph-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cher Perform &#8216;DJ Play a Christmas Song,&#8217; &#8216;Run Rudolph Run&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Both are from the pop icon&#8217;s 2023 Christmas album<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cher\" data-tag=\"cher\">Cher<\/a> closed out the final <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> of 2025 with two tracks from her 2023 Christmas album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe pop icon, who had been an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a><\/em> musical guest only once before, opened with the up-tempo \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cher-holiday-album-single-dj-play-a-christmas-song-1234847962\/\">DJ Play a Christmas Song<\/a>,\u201d one of the original songs on the album.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cher: DJ Play A Christmas Song (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gMFUQyDHBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHer only Christmas album\u2014and 27th overall\u2014also includes a duet with Darlene Love on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/darlene-love-friendship-with-cher-christmas-baby-please-come-home-duet-1234852670\/\">Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)<\/a>,\u201d and appearances by Stevie Wonder, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Tyga and Cyndi Lauper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re not \u2018Christmas-Christmas\u2019 songs, OK?\u201d she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cher-holiday-album-single-dj-play-a-christmas-song-1234847962\/\">Billboard<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>at the time. \u201cThey\u2019re just great songs. And I never say that because I almost never like what I do. But I mean people love it and I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m so particular, but I love the songs and everyone who hears them loves them.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCher\u2019s second performance was of \u201cRun Rudolph Run,\u201d written by Chuck Berry in 1958 and credited to Marvin Brodie and Christmas songwriter Johnny Marks for having trademarked the Rudolph character.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cher: Run Rudolph Run (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6AXt8q2eC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFresh off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cher-victory-royalties-war-mary-bono-vows-appeal-1235476017\/\">a legal win<\/a> regarding royalties to Sonny &amp; Cher songs like 1965\u2019s \u201cI Got You Babe,\u201d Cher, 79, was recently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cher-holiday-album-single-dj-play-a-christmas-song-1234847962\/\">announced<\/a> as a recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She was first nominated for a Grammy 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-watch-cher-perform-dj-play-christmas-song-run-rudolph-run-1235488441\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both are from the pop icon&#8217;s 2023 Christmas album Cher closed out the final Saturday Night Live of 2025 with two tracks from her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}