[78-L] Christmas Music

[kil at roadrunner.com]

> Records don't go back that far.
> In my experience, most Christmas records before (s) 1935 were sacred, with a few novelties for the kiddies.? I think that the success of "Sana Claus Is Coming to Town" (c. 1935) made the compamies see value in other secular songs of the season.? The deluge begins, AFIC, in the '40s, and doen't stp until recent years, with the demise of the 'single'.
> One man's opinion.? Corrections welcome!
> Don Chichester
> 
SECOND TRY AT SENDING: 

Two Christmas songs that go back before 1935 are JOLLY OLD SAINT NICHOLAS and UP ON THE HOUSE TOP.  I've asked on this list before but no one seems to own or have ever come across a pre-1935 recording of either.  Both have stood the test of time so they must have been very popular.  I've come to assume that they were spread via sheet music or piano rolls.  Any other theories?
RayK