Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town or Santa Claus Is Comin 'to Town ( Santa Claus is coming into town today and others) is a Christmas song and was written in 1932 by John Frederick Coots to a text by Haven Gillespie. Santa Claus is the English word for Santa Claus. Its arrival is imminent in the song and a (presumably younger ) person is admonished in the refrain to behave better.

Coots and Gillespie initially had difficulty finding a publisher for the song. The earliest recording of the song has Harry Reser and his band on October 24, 1934 recorded with singer Tom Stacks ( Decca 264A ). After the presentation of the song in November 1934 by Eddie Cantor in his radio show, the notes were sold the next day 100,000 times. By Christmas 1934, it sold another 400,000 times; they thus reached the top spot in the corresponding charts.

More versions

On September 26, 1935 Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra took on another version. Shortly after, the California Ramblers were playing a song in 1942 followed Woody Herman. Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1943 with the Andrews Sisters. Your version sold more than a million mal.Es followed, particularly in the U.S., many other arrangements and recordings of the song, including by Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff and Bruce Springsteen. Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Paul Bley even have recorded jazz versions of this Christmas song. Tom Lord lists alone in the field of jazz to 208 cover versions; insofar as the song is also a ( seasonal ) Jazz Standard geworden.1970 who covered the The Jackson Five also this song.