This yr, UMe will as soon as once more launch a group of Christmas classics on 7” vinyl, together with the long-lasting Jackson 5 tracks “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” / “Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year.” The one shall be issued on Apple Crimson vinyl and shall be obtainable in time for the vacations.
Final yr, UMe launched a complete slew of recent vacation classics, together with The Seaside Boys’ “Little Saint Nick,” Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” and Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” This yr will deliver a complete new assortment of tracks and collectible vinyl. Each the 2024 and 2025 editions shall be introduced collectively in a brand new carrying case assortment.
Launched on their fourth album, The Jackson 5 Christmas Album, each “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” and “Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year” have remained in Christmas rotation for over 50 years after their launch. In actual fact, it wasn’t till the album and the only “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” had been out for 50 years that they really charted on the Billboard charts. The album charted at quantity 36 in 2023, and the only made all of it the way in which to quantity 30 on the Scorching 100 in early 2024.
1970 was a really busy yr for the household band, with The Jackson 5 releasing three albums and touring extensively. The Christmas Album was an immediate hit and stays beloved to at the present time, with the band and finally even Michael Jackson as a solo artist carrying associations with Christmas additional into their careers. In 1972, the brothers had been the honorary chairmen of the Watts Christmas Parade in Los Angeles. 20 years later, Michael shared a Christmas message in-line together with his carefully held beliefs on human compassion: “Let’s love one another, let’s forget hatred, and turn to those that are suffering, not just today, but every day.”
Order “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” on 7-inch now.
