“Up On the Housetop (Ho! Ho! Ho!)” is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio. ^[1]. It has been recorded byGene Autry, Cass County Boys, King Sisters & Carl Cotner’s Orch. in 1953 on Columbia J4-176(45rpm) / J-176(78rpm). This came with a colorful picture sleeve. Read the rest of this entry »

Author of song is Raisa Adamovna Kudasheva, teacher, librarian and poet. She wrote poems, tales and songs for children.

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“Jingle Bells” is one of the best known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and copyrighted under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” on September 16, 1857. Despite being inextricably connected to Christmas, it is not specifically a Christmas song. Read the rest of this entry »

The origins

of “Happy Birthday To You” date back to the mid-nineteenth century, when two sisters, Patty and Mildred J. Hill, began singing the song “Good Morning To All” to their kindergarten class in Kentucky. In 1893, they published the tune in their songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Read the rest of this entry »