Lexington, KY, native Elmo Shropshire is better known as Dr. Elmo, the whimsical character who has sold more than ten million copies of the holiday novelty song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." After earning a veterinary medicine degree in Kentucky, Elmo traveled up and down the East Coast tending to thoroughbred racehorses. 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 with his wife Patsy. In 1979, Elmo & Patsy introduced "Grandma" on a San Francisco radio station. It quic...