"Up On The Housetop" genre: Christmas
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	Instrumental by Steve W. Smith "Up On The Housetop," which was written in the mid-19th century by an Ohioan, Benjamin Russell Handy, probably owes something to "A Visit From St. Nicholas,"
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	Story Behind the Song Words and Music by Benjamin Russell Hanby. Copyright (C) 1981 Ardee Music Publishing, Inc. This arrangement by Steve W. Smith ASCAP copyright (C) 2002 by Sted Records Music. About This Song: Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas," written in 1822 and now more familiarly know by its first line, " 'Twas The Night Before Christmas," clarified for many children and their parents the exact fashion in which Santa Claus paid his visits - what he looked like, what the names of his reindeer were, how he got himself down the chimney. "Up On The Housetop," which was written in the mid-19th century by an Ohioan, Benjamin Russell Handy, probably owes something to "A Visit From St. Nicholas," since no one before Moore had suggested that Santa's sleigh could land on a rooftop at all.

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