[78-L] Merry Christmas

[kil at roadrunner.com]

---- DAVID BURNHAM wrote: 
> One thing my daughter noticed, (I hadn't), is that there are no Santa songs of note around except those which appeared in the late 40s and early 50s from Bing and Gene etc.  She, of course, wouldn't know about Santa hiding in the Phonograph but I have never found any Santa songs from the 20s or 30s, not counting "'Twas the Night before Christmas" read by Milton Cross, but that's not a song.  Surely Santa must have been a major part of Christmas for kids during those decades and his image was certainly poplular in Coke commercials.
> 
There's the earlier mentioned SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN by Tommy Dorsey and also SANTA CLAUS CAME IN THE SPRING by Benny Goodman, both from 1935.  And there were a couple of Santa songs using his alias Saint Nicholas or Saint Nick (but I can't find any recordings of these).
RayK