[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[RAY KILCOYNE]

From: "Taylor Bowie"
> Gotta be Santa Claus Is Coming To Town for dance bands,  right?
>
> I have heard an Art Landry (?)  Gennett of Jingle Bells which is pretty 
> damn
> good and there are plenty of dance records of that...so it's one or the
> other of those two tunes.
>
When you come right down to it, what other secular Christmas songs were 
there before the war.  Those were the two biggest.  There were maybe a few 
other one shots that were quickly forgotten.  (In fact, JINGLE BELLS 
actually was only a winter song, and not a secular Christmas song when it 
was written).

Two exceptions that have lasted are UP ON THE HOUSE TOP and JOLLY OLD SAINT 
NICHOLAS.  Both pre-date the 78 era, yet whenever I have asked in years past 
about what pre-WWII 78rpm recordings were made of those two, the list has 
come up empty.  So I ask again this year.  If there are none known by this 
elite list, I have to assume there were few or maybe none.
RayK