Kentucky has produced some of the most well-known songs in the English language. The Happy Birthday song was created at the Little Loom House on South Louisville’s Kenwood Hill in 1893. There’s another ubiquitous tune echoed throughout the holiday season that got its start in Kentucky.
“You’d better watch out. You’d better not cry. You’d better not pout, I’m telling you why.”
Those words have been sung by Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra, and that’s just a short list of artists who have covered the Christmas classic. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town was originally composed by Haven Gillespie, a Covington, Kentucky native.