According to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, the most played Christmas song of the last 50 years is "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." ...

The 1970 classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” will air tonight on ABC. Tune it at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, for the stop-motion animated film, narrated by Fred Astaire as the mailman.

Santa Claus is coming to town. But the person shimmying down the chimney may not be the rotund, bearded white man who has long played the role of St. Nick.