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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. It was originally published in the magazine Our Song Birds by Root & Cady.
Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 2005, six different songs topped the chart in 53 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems .
"Up On the House Top" U.S. Adult Contemporary: 1 U.S. Adult Contemporary Recurrents: 15 Top AC Singles of 2006: 36 2006 "Jingle Bells" U.S. Adult Contemporary: 1 2007 "Frosty the Snowman" U.S. Adult Contemporary: 1 Canadian Adult Contemporary 40 Top AC Singles of 2008: 46 2008 "We Need a Little Christmas" U.S. Adult Contemporary: 19
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Everyone knows the words to holiday favorite “Up On The Housetop,” but few know the story behind it. It was back in 1864 that a man named Benjamin Hanby sat down in New ...
Locke released her version of "Up on the House Top" in the autumn of 2005 and by the end of year, it had reached the top spot of the Adult Contemporary (A/C) charts. The following year, Locke's version of " Jingle Bells " was released and topped the same charts.
Here, he composed "Up On The Housetop" as a Christmas sing-along, originally titled "Santa Claus". In 1865, Chicago-based publisher George Frederick Root published the song and brought Hanby to Chicago to pursue other ventures. [citation needed] On March 16, 1867, Hanby died in Chicago from tuberculosis at the age of 33. [5]
An overdubbed version of this song was released on the 1989 album The Beginning Years 1967-1968, prior to the inclusion of the original recording being featured on Big Boy in 1993 [22] "Up on the House Top" The Jackson 5 Christmas Album: Benjamin Hanby — "Up On The Roof" Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls: Gerry Goffin. Carole King. The ...
20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of Reba McEntire received three out of five stars from William Ruhlmann of Allmusic. [1] In his review, Ruhlmann describes McEntire's versions of "Silent Night" and "Up on the Housetop" as "appropriately reverent," while "This Is My Prayer for You" is the "most memorable" of the non-standards.