Origins: Santa Clause/ Santa Claus (Pas and Mas)

Subject: Origins: Santa Clause
From: GUEST,Glenda Metrejean
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 12:00 PM

I am looking perhaps for the singer for this song, if possible.
A song that my grandmother sang to my mother when she was a little girl in the 1930s. Lyrics as she remembers are as follows.

Santa dear Santa please hark to me,
for I am a good little girl you see.
I always help mother,
I'm kind to my brother,
So Santa please hear me.
A doll and a table, so I may be able,
to have me a jolly tea party.
Santa Claus, Santa Claus
you are so good the the girls and boys.
I love you forever,
forget you no never
Dear Santa Claus

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 01:30 PM

I was Always told that my Dad wrote this song when he was a young man. He taught it to me and my siblings when we were growing up. There is also other verses to this song.

My Father was born in 1914.

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: GUEST,#
Date: 04 Dec 15 - 02:18 PM

http://wmdavies.com/images/LSD_Autobiography.pdf

Bottom of p. 37

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SANTA DEAR SANTA
Santa dear please hark to me, for I am a good little girl you see
I'm kind to my brother, I always help mother, so these are my wishes
Please bring me some dishes, a doll and a table that I might be able
To have a right jolly tea party.

Chorus:
Santa Claus, Santa Claus we love you next to our pas and mas
We'll love you for ever forget you no never Dear santa Claus.

Santa dear Santa please hark to me for I am a good little boy you see
I am a good feller, bring coal from the cellar so
Bring me a horn to wake dad in the morn, a bow and fiddle with strings down the middle
To keep all the neighbors from sleeping
Chorus

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: GUEST,Lynette
Date: 10 Dec 15 - 06:46 PM

Hi Glenda,

I was Always told that my dad wrote this song. He taught it to me and my siblings when we were young. There are other verses to the song. It's funny how I saw your post about this, as I was just thinking about finding someone to write the melody down, and then try to rekindle the song.

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Dec 15 - 02:24 AM

(Tearing off the bottom of the contract) You can't fool me. There ain't no sanity clause.

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 09:46 PM

This song is a family tradition for us, my great grandma learned it in school, and it's been passed down since then. I'm trying to find the tune to teach it to my children. I have a a full copy of the lyrics, but I don't recall the tune of the chorus. Any help would be appreciated!

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 02:02 AM

Hi - if you could post the full lyrics you have, that could be very helpful to all the pas and mas out there. I added lyrics above to a post above that previously had just a link.
Thanks.
I did find something here:

https://www.discogs.com/Roger-Williams-Santa-Claus-Santa-Claus-Jingle-Bells/release/14293677

and http://www.45cat.com/record/k440x

It's a 1957 Roger Williams recording called "Santa Claus-Santa Claus (We Love You Next To Our Pas And Mas)" Songwriters are "Baker-Marando."

-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-

Subject: RE: Origins: Santa Clause/ Santa Claus (Pas and Mas)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 02:32 AM

...and Marando is Anthony "Jeff" Marando (1911-1987), a Quad Cities nightclub owner who wrote "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" in 1960 (or so). Can't say I can picture a nightclub in the Iowa-Illinois Quad Cities on the Mississippi. I'm betting it was more what they call a "supper club" in that area.
An excerpt:

Jeff was a man of many talents. While he mostly worked in the kitchen, his passion was actually songwriting. Often, while Clyde McCoy would rehearse his trademark sugar blues prior to an evening performance, Jeff would change the lyrics to the song with something humorous and offbeat, sending McCoy into hysterics.

But in 1960, Jeff gained national attention when he wrote “Santa Claus, Santa Claus,” a Christmas song that was recorded by legendary pianist Roger Williams and rolled out with a 32-voice children’s choir.

As the story goes, Jeff fashioned the hymn back in the 1920s during elementary school, over the years added lyrics, and decades later decided to record it after entertaining kids while dressed up as old Saint Nick himself.

“For several years I played Santa for the kids in Milan and all the time I kept adding words to the song,” he was quoted as saying in Milan Man’s Christmas Song May Be A Big Hit, an Arpy-penned 1960 story in the Quad-City Times. “Then, Marge Meinert (Davenport recording star) heard it and liked it. I hummed it for her and she put it down on paper. She suggested I copyright it and I did.”

Florida musician Don Baker of the Don Baker Orchestra took notice, and convinced Williams over dinner one night to record the song. According to Arpy’s article, Williams was so taken with the piece that he canceled a concert tour just to rehearse for the recording session. While Marando turned down a $10,000 offer from Baker for outright rights to the song, he did agree to share any ensuing royalties 50-50 with the bandleader, according to an Aug 25, 1960 agreement between the two. It is unknown how well the song did, but a first-print of 200,000 sold out in weeks.