Advent calendar: December 11: The Skip-Jacks with Esquivel and His Orchestra, “Here Comes Santa Claus”
Advent calendar: December 11: The Skip-Jacks with Esquivel and His Orchestra, “Here Comes Santa Claus”
The Skip-Jacks with Esquivel and His Orchestra, “Here Comes Santa Claus” (1959)
from The Merriest of Christmas Pops
RCA Victor LSP-2032
Esquivel tests the concentration of the Skip-Jacks with his ADD arrangement of the Gene Autry classic. I’m not sure how his theological positions (“Santa Claus knows we’re all Gods children”; “So lets give thanks to the lord above / That Santa Claus comes tonight!”) hold up to scrutiny: that’s a message as mixed as Esquivel’s sonic palette.
