For Day 7 of our Christmas Countdown, we move into 1936 with a Depression-era Christmas song!
It's "Tell Santy I Live in a Shanty" from Frank Dailey and his Meadowbrook Orchestra with vocalist Ann Lee Davies on Bluebird:
Pretty snappy if not in keeping with the situation!
If remembered at all today, Frank Dailey was best-known as the owner of the Meadowbrook, a popular nightspot in New Jersey featuring bands that were more popular than his own ever was!
The Santy/Shanty rhyme had been used a couple of years before for the title song of the 1933 Warner Brothers "Merrie Melodies" cartoon "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" (see image at top), but I don't think that song as ever commercially recorded.
That cartoon is now in the public domain, so it's easy to find, but it's really a bit too politically incorrect to be lumped in holiday cartoon collections so frequently.
Eddy Arnold used the same Santy/Shanty concept in his 1949 hit "Will Santy Come to Shanty Town," but that's another story!
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