[78-L] Merry Christmas

[David Lennick]

Tell Santy (I Live in a Shanty)..can't remember, Mickey Mouse band
What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody swingin')..Louis Prima
Santa Claus Is On His Way..Sammy Kaye

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Bud Black wrote:
> "I Told Santa Claus To Bring Me You" - Bernie Cummings and his Orchestra
> "I Want You For Christmas" - Dick Robertson and his Orchestra
> "On A Christmas Tree" - Jack Grose and his Orchestra
> 
> Bud
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: kil at roadrunner.com
> Date: 12/29/08 16:46:36
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Merry Christmas
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> ---- 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
>