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"Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" is a popular Christmas song originally performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Autry, Oakley Haldeman and ...
"Tell 'Em" is a song composed of an intro, which has been described as a mixture of "piledriving beats" and a "towering riff trigger", [7] "bazooka beats and syncopated snaps" incorporated with "heavy metal guitar riffs", [8] and a chorus featuring Krauss' vocals over "machine-gun drums". [9]
According to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the Housetop" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by "Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857. It is also considered the first Yuletide song to focus primarily on Santa Claus .
This version includes the lyrics "bells will be ringing the sad, sad news" (that is, a Christmas alone) as opposed to Brown's original version which references the "glad, glad news" (that is, Christmas in general). A live version of the song was included on the compilation 4-CD box set called Selected Works: 1972–1999 released in 2000.
The "man with the bag" is a reference to Santa Claus, who drops off presents from his sleigh to people who have been "extra special good". [2] The song was originally made popular by Kay Starr and regularly appeared on Billboard's list of most popular Christmas songs in the early 1950s. [3] [4] Hal Stanley was Kay Starr's husband at the time.
Ella Logan – as "Jingle (Bingle) Bells"; single (1938) Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians – on the album Jingle Bells (1956) Lonestar – on the album My Christmas List (2007) The Looney Tunes cast - on the album A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas (2007) Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – on the album Christmas Music (1957) Los Del Rio
The dances are scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, violins I and II, violoncellos, and double basses.The middle section and coda, titled Die Schlittenfahrt (The sleigh ride), of the third dance adds two posthorns and five sleigh bells tuned to C, E, F, G, and A (in ascending order).
The song has received positive reviews from critics. Billboard described the song as "a bizarrely catchy track". [1] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune positively compared the song to songs from the band's debut album Treats, stating that "the production is more refined" and has "a more spacious arrangement".