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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 Coming to Town" (Haven Gillespie, John Frederick Coots) – 2:58 " Jingle Bells " (Traditional) – 3:55 " The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) " with Toots Thielemans ( Mel Tormé , Robert Wells ) – 3:54
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.
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Christmas with Patti Page - not to be confused with the 1965 Columbia Records album of the same name - is a Patti Page LP album, first issued by Mercury Records in 1951 as catalog number MG-25109, and later reissued and expanded with four additional tracks in 1955 as catalog number MG-20093.
James Taylor at Christmas is the 17th studio and second Christmas album by singer-songwriter James Taylor, released by Columbia Records in 2006. It was his last release for Columbia since signing with the label in 1977.
Coots was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York [A] When he was 17, he began to work with Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. in New York [8] In 1916, his first hit song published, "Mr. Ford You've Got the Right Idea," words by Ray Sherwood, music by Coots; A. J. Stasny Music Co., publisher OCLC 726927577 [8] In 1919, actor-producer Eddie Dowling gave Coots his first chance at writing a musical score for ...
The album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching No. 6 on Billboard's Christmas LP's chart in its initial release and eventually going gold. [3] Music historian James Perone wrote that it is "regarded as one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era". [4]