Christmas Movie Fun Facts Better than Any Gift Under the Tree

Sheet Music Sells

Santa Claus is Coming to Town was a song before it was a holiday special. In 1932, sheet music outsold records. Eddie Cantor sang the song for his wife on the radio in November 1934. Despite the belief that children’s songs would always fail, the sales of the song’s sheet music skyrocketed.

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