Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

What is your

favorite Christmas song or carol? Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Bruce Springsteen.

Oh, really? Absolute favorite.

I don't care what mood I'm in.

Albums that were released on November 1st include in 1965 when the Supremes released Merry Christmas.

It peaked at number six on the Billboard Christmas Albums chart, and it had their rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Me alongside Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

You know, the usual Christmas stuff.

In 1965, The Temptations released Tempting Temptations.

Some of the songs that will be featured in the upcoming show, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the Sinatra version, Let It Snow, the Harry Connick version, and then by artists like Tony Bennett and Barry Manilow and Harry Connick, Sleigh Ride, Winter Wonderland, I Love the Winter Weather, What Do You Do on New Year's Eve, the list goes on, of Christmas classics by the classic standard singers.

All interpreted by Paul Marinaro, who's going to be doing these with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, a Christmas show at City Winery, December 1st.

We're telling you about this October 27th because tickets go on sale in two days.

And it is a previously never-before-released track by Dean Martin.

It is his recording of Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

So good.

Have you listened to it? I have.

It's so good.

Can we play a little bit of it right now, Chris?

Santa Claus is coming to town.

How

As I mentioned earlier, his Christmas single, which featured this song and his take on White Christmas, was released for the first Christmas season after he passed away in 1968.

Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus is Coming to Town is next on this list.

This was one of those rare Christmas songs that for many years was only sent to radio stations.

which meant you could only hear it when they chose to slip it into their regular playlist, which is how most radio stations aired Christmas music back then before they started going all Christmas in the 1990s.

Bruce and his band recorded this in concert in December of 1975, and rock radio started playing it the following year.

it was first released to the public on an album to benefit the children's television workshop called in harmony 2. the second of two albums for this charity made up of popular singers and bands performing songs for children some of the artists on these albums besides bruce were the doobie brothers billy joel and carly simon bruce's track was the only christmas song Both In Harmony Records, which were released in 1980 and 1981, won Grammys for Best Recording for Children.

Bruce's version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town wasn't available again until it turned up as the flip side to his My Hometown single in 1985.

Bruce has a couple other Christmas songs, Merry Christmas Baby from the first very special Christmas collection, and his take on Blue Christmas, which was on the Blu-ray and DVD for The Promise, The Making of the Darkness on the Edge of Town.

We'll see where we end up.

But this is gonna be Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Jackson 5.

Ooh,

it's a good one.

and this song, arguably one of the best Christmas songs of all time, it is...

We were

saying that last season, that the song Santa Claus is Coming to Town, like there's lots of different versions of it, but like that song is a really great song.

It really is, and when you think about, like when I think back to my childhood, and a song that got me excited about Christmas, it was the idea, the story that was told about, you know, he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, like be good for goodness sake.

So when you see Pete on...

Peter playing the harmonica to Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

He wasn't really playing a Christmas song because Michael comes out and goes, why are we playing a Christmas song? That was to the tune of the song that Deanna wrote for Owen.

So we'll sing that to you later when we are off the stage.

It had 11 tracks on it.

The tracks for this particular recording were Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, which was a big hit for them.

The Christmas song Up on the House Top, Frosty the Snowman, the Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Won't Be the Same This Year, Give Love on Christmas Day, Someday at Christmas, and their other big hit off of this album, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

In 1973, the band released Moondog Matinee.