[78-L] Merry Christmas

[martha]

We have "Santa Claus Song",  by the yodeling George P. Watson  on Edison 8270 
(about 1902)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Merry Christmas


And "Fairy on the Christmas Tree", recorded by Henry Hall right at the end of
November 1936 (optimists, weren't they?).

dl

kil at roadrunner.com wrote:
> ---- 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
>