Santa Claus is coming to town

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town or Santa Claus Is Comin 'to Town ( Santa Claus is coming to town today u. A.) Is a Christmas song and was 1932 by John Frederick Coots to a text by Haven Gillespie wrote. Santa Claus is the English word for Santa Claus . Whose arrival is imminent in the song, and (probably younger) person will refrain admonished to behave better.

Coots and Gillespie initially struggled to find a publisher for the song. The earliest recording of the song was made by Harry Reser and his band on October 24, 1934 with singer Tom Stacks ( Decca 264A). After Eddie Cantor presented the song on his radio show in November 1934, the sheet music sold 100,000 times the next day. By Christmas 1934 they had sold another 400,000 times; it reached the top spot in the relevant charts.

Other versions

On September 26, 1935, Tommy Dorsey recorded another version with his orchestra. Shortly thereafter, the California Ramblers recorded the song, followed by Woody Herman in 1942 . Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1943 with the Andrews Sisters . Their version sold more than a million times. This was followed, especially in the USA, numerous other arrangements and recordings of the song, including by Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff and Bruce Springsteen . Ramsey Lewis , Bill Evans , even Paul Bley have recorded jazz versions of this Christmas carol. Tom Lord lists 208 cover versions from the area of ​​jazz alone ; in this respect, the song has also become a (seasonal) jazz standard . In 1970 The Jackson Five also covered this song. El Vez , known as "Mexican Elvis" , released a humorous version in 1994 called Santa Claus Is Sometimes Brown .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Garden The Christmas Carol Dance Book Earthly Delights, 2002
  2. ↑ Tommy Dorsey 1928-1935 with Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, November 14, 2013)
  4. ↑ Harry Nimmo The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record McFarland, 2004, p. 419
  5. ^ Scott Yanow Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years Backbeat Books 2003, pp. 374, 441, 573
  6. ↑ Entry on jazzstandards.com