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Choose for me, dear Santa Claus, What you think is right. In the Ray Conniff version as part of a medley with The Little Drummer Boy; the list of wishes is changed to "Johnny wants a pair of skates, Susy wants a sled, Nellie wants a picture book, yellow, blue and red." The final lyrics are also changed as a child named Billy is mentioned and ...
Twas the Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century is a 2012 edited "smoke-free" version of the 1823 poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement C. Moore, published by Pamela McColl's Grafton and Scratch Publishing.
"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 Harriet Melka. [3] Autry's original recording (in which he pronounces Santa Claus as "Santy Claus") was a top-10 hit on the pop and country charts; the song would go on to be ...
Gilley's book includes some important elements in the early development of Santa Claus: his connection with the northern winter, the reindeer and sleigh, and his arrival on Christmas Eve rather than on 6 December (the traditional feast day of Saint Nicholas). [2] [5] The accompanying engravings are the earliest images of a Santa figure.
Santa Claus: A Morality (or just Santa Claus) is a play written by 20th-century poet E. E. Cummings in 1946. The play is an allegorical Christmas tale consisting of one act of five scenes. In the play, Santa Claus deals with the increasing materialism and lust for knowledge around him and becomes consumed by it because of Death.
Stalking Santa is a 2006 comedy Christmas feature film directed by Greg Kiefer, written by Daryn Tufts, starring Chris Clark, Daryn Tufts, Lisa Clark, and narrated by William Shatner. [1] It follows one man's obsession to scientifically prove the existence of the famous Jolly Old Elf , better known as Santa Claus or Father Christmas.
Must Be Santa" is a Christmas song written by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks [1] and first released in November 1960 by Mitch Miller on Columbia 41814 (45 rpm). [2] A cover version by Tommy Steele reached Number 40 on the UK Singles Chart a year later. [3] Another cover, by Joan Regan made number 42 a week later. [4]
Rydberg's poem has been translated into English by Charles Wharton Stork, [5] Anna Krook, [6] Elias Gordon [7] and Judith Moffett. [8] In 1960 Astrid Lindgren published a prose version of the story with illustrations by Harald Wiberg.