Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band made 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' into an annual holiday tradition, even though it wasn't released until 1985.

Almost without fail, Springsteen and the E Street Band continued to play the song around the holidays throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Although it was immediately pegged as a classic cut from the E Street Band, there was no immediate use for a holiday song. That August saw the release of his third album with the E Street Band, Born to Run, and Springsteen was suddenly a household name across the country.