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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 ...
In 1970, Rankin-Bass produced Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, an hour-long animated TV film based on the song, with Fred Astaire narrating the origin of Santa Claus. The same year, the Jackson 5 included the song on their best-selling album Jackson 5 Christmas Album. The Jackson 5 version would chart 50 years later on the Billboard 100 at #33.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: 1970: The Year Without a Santa Claus: 1974: The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow: 1975: Rudolph's Shiny New Year: 1975: The Little Drummer Boy, Book II: 1976: Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey: 1977: Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July: 1979: Jack Frost: 1979: Pinocchio's Christmas ...
Functionally a claymation Santa biopic, this beloved special is narrated by Fred Astaire and follows a young Kris Kringle. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (1970) is streaming on Amazon Prime Video ...
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town was the last Rankin/Bass television special for Fred Astaire, who also played narrator S.D. Kluger in the previous holiday special, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970). It is also a semi-sequel to the earlier special — Santa Claus is only mentioned once in the special and as such, it shares many ...
'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' (1970) Rankin/Bass clearly dominate Christmas, and this movie is proof. Fred Astaire narrates this story with Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle (aka Santa).
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released a Deluxe Edition of the special, along with other specials on Blu-ray and DVD, on October 16, 2018. In 2022, Universal released the special in 4K Ultra HD as part of The Classic Christmas Specials Collection (with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town).
Robie Lester (March 23, 1925 – June 14, 2005) was an American voice artist, actress, and singer, best known as the voice of "Miss Jessica" in the Rankin/Bass animated special Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, the singing voice of Eva Gabor in Disney's The Aristocats and The Rescuers, and the original "Disneyland Story Reader" for Walt Disney Records read-alongs.