List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 20 (U.S.“Up on the Housetop” was written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 and has been covered by multiple artists! Country music star Reba McEntire recorded her version of the Christmas song for her 1999 Secret of Giving album.Christmas Album (2016) - with two additional verses that most versions do not include Straight No Chaser (group) - I'll Have Another.Duncan Brannan and Jaret Reddick – Chuck E's Holiday Party (2013), Holiday Medley (2014).Pentatonix – A Pentatonix Christmas (2016) as "Up On The Housetop".Down through the chimney with old saint nick. Pomplamoose – Hyundai Elantra television commercial, their EP Pomplamoose Christmas (2010), and featured on the soundtrack to Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever Ho, ho, ho who wouldn't go ho, ho, ho who wouldn't go Up on the housetop, click, click, click.Fariborz Lachini – Christmas Piano – Solo Piano with Sheet Music (2009).The Airmen of Note – Cool Yule (2009) (arrangement by Alan Baylock).Bradley Joseph – Classic Christmas (2008) Up On The Housetop Lyrics: Ho, ho, ho / Ho, ho, ho / Up on the housetop / Ho, ho, ho / Up on the house top reindeers pause / Out jumps good old Santa Claus.George Strait – Fresh Cut Christmas (2006) and Classic Christmas (2008) Down through the chimney, with lots of toys, All for the little ones Christmas joys.Reba McEntire – The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection (1999).Jimmy Buffett – Christmas Island (1996).Sammy Kershaw – Christmas Time's A-Comin' (1994).Kidsongs-We Wish You A Merry Christmas (1992).Barney and the Backyard Gang – Waiting for Santa (1990).This version opens with a reference to " Here Comes Santa Claus" and also contains references to basketball ( basketball games have been played on Christmas Day since the 1940s) and " A Visit from St. The Jackson 5 – The Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970).Don Janse and his 60 Voice Children's Choir - The Little Drummer Boy (1963).Eddy Arnold – Eddy Arnold Christmas Album (1962).Alvin and the Chipmunks – Christmas with The Chipmunks (1961).Lawrence Welk with Larry Hooper, as "High On The House Top", the same melody with significantly altered lyrics.Gene Autry – Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics (1953).It was also the second longest Billboard holiday AC chart topper in the chart's history, sitting at #1 for 4 consecutive weeks. Up on the housetop reindeer pause Out jumps good old Santa Claus Down through the chimney with lots of toys All for the little ones, Christmas joys Oh Who. Goldman, Exodus, 129 hawke, ed., Complete Lyrics, 129. The recording broke a Billboard record when it made the largest leap into the Top 5 in the AC chart's history, moving from 32 to 5 in only a week. away after falling victim to political violence in the run up to the 1976 election. In 2005, the song was repopularized with a new recording by Kimberley Locke. In 2013, Dove Cameron and Ella Anderson performed a duet version of the song in their respective Liv and Maddie characters in the episode "Fa La La La-A-Rooney".Ĭover versions Kimberley Locke version "Up on the Housetop" But then on Christmas Eve, someone is on top of the Calhouns' roof, and Curtis does not know whether he is Saint Nick or a cat burglar. The special is the story of Curtis Calhoun, a miserable man who wishes that there were no Santa Claus. His creative partner, Russ Harris, co-wrote, co-produced, co-directed and also did voiceover work in this special. Brian Reynolds also was the voice of Curtis Calhoun, and also composed the musical score. In 1992, a syndicated television special of the same name, produced by Perennial Pictures Film Corporation in Indianapolis, Indiana, was released.
Other than "Up on the Housetop", his best-known song is " Darling Nelly Gray".īenjamin Hanby, author of the Christmas classic. During his short life, he wrote some 80 songs before dying of tuberculosis in 1867. Benjamin Russell Hanby was born in 1833 near Rushville, Ohio, the son of a minister involved with the Underground Railroad. Nicholas" (also commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas"). According to Readers Digest Merry Christmas Song Book, Hanby probably owes the idea that Santa and his sleigh land on the roofs of homes to Clement C. It was originally published in the magazine Our Song Birds by Root & Cady. Clatter the steeds of Santa Claus Down thro the chimney with loads of toys 2. It is also considered the first Yuletide song to focus primarily on Santa Claus. Down thro' the chimney with loads of toysĪccording to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the Housetop" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by " Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857.
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