Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Thursday December 18, 2008
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (sometimes with Coming changed to Comin') is a Christmas song. It was written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934. It became an instant hit with orders for 100,000 copies of sheet music the next day and over 400,000 copies sold by Christmas.




You better watch out

You better not cry

You better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,

Checking it twice;

Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake

With little tin horns and little toy drums

Rooty toot toots and rummy tum tums

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake

Goodness sake

You better watch out

You better not cry

You better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming

Santa Claus is coming

Santa Claus is coming to town

(Coming to town)

Santa's a busy man he has no time to play

He's got millions of stockings to fill on Christmas day

(Santa Claus is coming to town)

(Coming to town)

(Santa Claus is coming to town)

(Coming to town)

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To watch & listen to Bruce Springstein perform his version ..
please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PZwGYKxnI&feature=related

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Here’s a list of Artists who have recorded this classic.

The Carpenters
Bianca Ryan
Destiny's Child
All 4 One
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Vanessa Amorosi
Gene Autry
Patricia Barber
The Beach Boys
David Benoit
Tony Bennett
Michael Bolton
Boston Pops Orchestra
Dave Brubeck
The California Raisins
Manhattan Transfer
Mariah Carey
Gnarkill (Alternative cover)
Ray Charles
The Cheetah Girls
Richard Clayderman
Rosemary Clooney
Nat King Cole
Perry Como
Ray Conniff Singers
Bucky Covington
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
The Crystals
Neil Diamond
Tommy Dorsey
Hilary Duff
Bill Evans
Ella Fitzgerald
Fourplay
Girl Authority
Vince Gill
Natalie Grant
Larry Groce on the album Disney's Christmas Favourites.
Hampton String Quartet
Merle Haggard
Woody Herman
Chris Isaak and Stevie Nicks
Burl Ives
Alan Jackson
The Jackson Five
The Judds
Peggy Lee
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Manhattan Transfer
Johnny Mathis
Jimmy McGriff
Mitch Miller and the Gang
Michael Martin Murphy
The Oak Ridge Boys
Dolly Parton
The Partridge Family
The Pointer Sisters
Alvino Rey with the King Sisters
Emma Roberts
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Art Paul Schlosser did a parody called IRS is Coming to Town
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra (in a duet with Cyndi Lauper)
Slade
Sugarcult
Kate Smith
Smothers Brothers
Bruce Springsteen (two versions, one of which is a popular radio version)
George Strait
The Supremes
James Taylor
The Temptations
Randy Travis
Dave Valentin
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
Lawrence Welk
Wynonna
Luis Miguel (sung in Spanish)
CKY
B2K
Aerosmith (Sung on Disney's popular show Lizzie Mcguire)

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

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