Who first sang “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”?
Eddie Cantor sang “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” on his radio show one week before Thanksgiving 1934.
It was written in 1932 by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots.
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