John Frederick Coots (May 2, 1897 - April 8, 1985) was an American
songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.
He is most famous for the song Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, a song that
became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history.
Among his songs are:
· Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
· You Go To My Head
· Louisiana Fairy Tale He wrote these three songs with the lyricist
Haven Gillespie. "Louisiana Fairy Tale" was also written with Mitchell
Parish and was the first theme song for the PBS production of This Old
House.
In 1934 when Gillespie brought him the lyrics to Santa Claus Is Coming to
Town, Coots came up with the skeleton of the music in just ten minutes.
Later when Coots brought the song to his publisher, Leo Feist Inc., they
liked it but thought it was a kids' song and did not expect too much from
it.
Coots offered the song to Eddie Cantor who used it on
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