Haven Gillespie

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Haven Gillespie is a Tin Pan Alley writer. He is also a composer and lyricist who died in 1975 in Las Vegas. He is the writer of the classic Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go To My Head", "Honey" and "By the Sycamore Tree".

Gillespie left High school at the age of 16 and became a typesetter at the Cincinnati Times Star.

Gillepsie had worked with many artists including:

  • J. Fred Coots
  • Henry Marshall
  • Henry Tobias
  • Charles Tobias
  • Neil Moret
  • Peter DeRose
  • Egbert Van Alsyne
  • Victor Young
  • Jack Little
  • Richard Whiting
  • Peter Wendling
  • Seymour Simons
  • Byron Gay
  • Rudy Vallee
  • Larry Shay
  • Lee David

He has also wrote songs for:

  • Dean Martin
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Michael Jackson
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Sarah Vaughn
  • Margaret Whiting
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • George Straight

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.

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