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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

original Christmas song written and composed by John Frederick Coots (music) and Haven Gillespie (words)
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q1657305
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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Summary

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (650 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's composer is recorded as John Frederick Coots[4].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's genre is popular music[5].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Frank Sinatra[6].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Perry Como[7].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was performed by Pat Boone[8].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was The Four Seasons[9].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was performed by The Miracles[10].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Burl Ives[11].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was performed by Bruce Springsteen[12].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Dolly Parton[13].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Mariah Carey[14].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Cartoons[15].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Arvingarna[16].
  • Among the performers on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was Justin Bieber[17].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was performed by Rod Stewart[18].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's language of work or name is recorded as English[19].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's lyricist is recorded as Haven Gillespie[20].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's date of first performance is recorded as November 1934[21].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town'}[22].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's has characteristic is recorded as Christmas-themed song[23].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "You'd better watch out, better not cry"}[24].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's derivative work is recorded as X-Mas Medley[25].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's derivative work is recorded as Happy Holidays Medley[26].
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's form of creative work is recorded as song[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[28]

  • Genre(s): christmas music, instrumental, pop rock, rock[29]

  • Community tags: christmas, christmas music, instrumental, pop rock, rock[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b3e49473-899d-3f08-9f06-2afc70f85e2e[31]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Frank Sinatra[6], Perry Como[7], Pat Boone[8], The Four Seasons[9], The Miracles[10], and Burl Ives[11].

Publication

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town's language of work or name is recorded as English[19]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (650 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

Bruce Springsteen Burl Ives Dolly Parton Frank Sinatra Justin Bieber Mariah Carey Pat Boone Perry Como Rod Stewart

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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