Talk:Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

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The credits for this song's lyrics and music are inconsistent with the article on Johnny Mercer. Mercer's page gives credit for the words and music to Mercer himself, whereas this page credits them to Coots and Gillespie. I'm not sure which is the correct one, but I think it ought to be resolved. 12-4-05.

[edit] Mariah Carey

Can we please have a separate article for Mariah's version? It was released as a single and is an important part of the singles chronology template in which there are links to the previous and the following singles. Alensha 17:12, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that Carey's version is notable enough for its own article. It was not given any promotion (as far as I know), and did not chart anywhere. Did it even receive a full single release? If we created an article for her version, then to avoid systematic bias we would have to write articles on every other version released as a single, but it's much more helpful for casual readers to have all of the useful information in one place. Anyway, I've added a "See also" link to Mariah Carey singles discography so that users going through the chronology don't come to a dead end. Extraordinary Machine 17:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

okay... but I'm a little sad about it :( Alensha 18:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the infobox for Carey's version again, as a) hers is nowhere near the most notable recording and b) the discography link stops readers from reaching a complete dead end. Extraordinary Machine 19:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

why are you people making everything so complicated?! Just because you make a sepperate section for Carey's version doesn't mean that you HAVE to make another for all the others. Yes the song (anniversary mix) was officialy released on the Dual Disc CD and there was a video made for it in 2005 which showed frequentally on television through November and December of 2005, and may be shown again this year.

[edit] "Goodman" version

There is no actual evidence that Goodman ever recorded this song. The reason I wrote this in the article is that Wikipedia's misinformation on this fact has been WIDELY cited all over the web, so it's important that the correction stand. There is no version of Goodman from 1935 listed in his discography, his official website, or anywhere else (except the sources that had obviously copied this bad entry here). Pdpp 19:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lyrics?

I missed the lyrics when searching for this song - can they be published on Wiki (copyrights)? I added an external link, please replace if anyone can find a better one. --Janke | Talk 10:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)