Assumed/incorrect titles:
- Santa Claus Is Watchin' You
other performers:
- The Merry Melody Singers (backing vocals) (original version)
Released:
- 1962 (original version)
- 1985 (re-recording)
Available on (*):
- 1962 45 rpm single (Mercury; original version)
- 1985 LP I Have Returned (MCA; re-recording)
- 1995 CD Holidays In Dementia (Rhino R2 72176, October 24, 1995; unedited original version)
Related to:
- Ahab, The Arab - Ray Stevens
Topics (not including words that are part of the title):
- Christmas
Alternate versions:
- The original 1962 version was edited down for the single. Several more recent releases have included the unedited 1962 version. The 1985 version has some different lyrics.
Chart information:
- #45 1962 (single)
- #1 1986 (country, as part of album I Have Returned)
- #69 1997 (country, as part of album Ray Stevens Christmas: Through A Different Window)
general information about Ray Stevens
Also credited as:
- Henhouse Five Plus Too
Common misspellings:
- Ray Stephens
- The Henhouse Five Plus Too
- The Hen House Five Plus Too
- The Henhouse Five Plus Two
- The Hen House Five Plus Two
- The Henhouse 5+2
- The Hen House 5+2
- The Henhouse 5 + 2
- The Hen House 5 + 2
General type of music:
- country
Real name:
- Harold Ray Ragsdale
Also recorded with:
- The Merry Melody Singers
- orchestra conducted by Jerry Kennedy
interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
- He has made many serious albums as well as comedy albums. His most successful serious song was "Everything Is Beautiful" which was #1 in 1970.
- He was also a producer and studio musician in the 1960s. He played trumpet on Elvis Presley's "Come What May" and "Fools Fall In Love" in 1966.
- His "Henhouse Five Plus Too" is a play on the 1960s group "Firehouse Five Plus Two" which was a group of Disney animators who got together to play music sometimes.
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