"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"
(SuperMegaChristmas, 45th anniversary full film, 12/22/16) Fun Fact: Did you know that the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" became the biggest hit of Xmas 1934? Radio audiences went wild for the song, and requests for the sheet music went off the charts. What followed from Cantor’s radio show would eventually make a millionaire of Haven Gillespie. How to make this originally Pagan holy day (Saturnalia) converted into a boisterous Christian feast much more Jewish with evil Nazis? Introduce a Mother Goddess named Mrs. Claus? Mock the living heck out of its pseudo-Christian themes?
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