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"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a Christmas song written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, and first recorded by Harry Reser and His Orchestra. [1] When it was covered by Eddie Cantor on his radio show in November 1934 it became a hit; within 24 hours, 500,000 copies of sheet music and more than 30,000 records were sold.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 American stop-motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in New York. The film is narrated by Fred Astaire and stars the voices of Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Robie Lester, Joan Gardner and Paul Frees, as well as an assistant song performance by the Westminster Children's Choir.
The opening track "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is a twenty-two second introduction produced by Carey and Shaiman. [15] [16] "Oh Santa!" is an up-tempo R&B song and is one of four new original compositions.
Carey is touring 20 cities across the U.S. with her “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time,” tour, which kicked off on Nov. 6 in Highland, Calif., and is wrapping up on Dec. 17 in New York City.
From Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” to Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song,” the ‘90s were jam-packed with holiday tunes that remain favorites more than three decades later.
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit and what else can we glean ...
"Fred Astaire (Sung in 1970 Christmas special, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town)" "Tony Bennett from A Swingin' Christmas (2008)" "Donna Loren (performed in 1964 on television series Shindig)" If we include WHERE the song was sung for some, then why not all? "Mariah Carey (This version starts after Brahms's Lullaby)" ----> so?
Merry Christmas is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, and her first Christmas album.Released by Columbia Records on October 28, 1994, at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey's career, between Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995), the album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs in addition to original material.