EDITOR’S NOTE: Ms. Lhak has been given the rest of the year off after it was discovered that she received payment from Amazon to write this article. Here at the Reality Register, we only print the truth, and it’s the truth that Lhana, like all fact checkers, is easily bought and paid for. She will return after the New Year.
Augie Rios’s classic “Donde Esta Santa Claus” has long been a staple of holiday playlists, charming listeners with its catchy melody and Spanglish lyrics. However, a curious debate has emerged, with some fervently claiming that the song is an example of the Mandela Effect, a phenomenon echoes of an alternate timeline impact our own reality. Skeptics argue that such claims are baseless and that the song has always been a Christmas classic, while others say that this song did not exist before this year.
Fact Check: Unwrapping the Truth Behind Augie Rios’s “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?”
Claim: The song was written this year by professional commercial jingle writers, not in 1958.
Fact Check: False. “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?” was indeed written in 1958 by Alvin Greiner and peaked on the Billboard charts in the same year. There is historical evidence, including records and publications, supporting its existence long before any claims of a recent composition for an Amazon ad campaign.
Claim: Augie Rios never existed, and the claim that he died in 2019 is retroactive history, covering up for a recently invented singer.
Fact Check: False. Augie Rios is a real person, and he did exist. Born in 1940, Rios gained fame for his rendition of “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?” during his childhood. Records, interviews, and historical documents validate his existence and contribution to the song. Claims of his death in 2019 are not retroactive history but reflect actual events.
Claim: The alleged 2012 album “Kid’s Retro Christmas Soundtrack” which features this song can’t be proven to exist before this year.
Fact: False. While it may be challenging to find physical copies of the alleged album, digital records and references confirm its existence in 2012. The claim that it was a recent creation to support the false narrative about Augie Rios’s song is unsubstantiated. While there are no images of physical copies of this album anywhere online, and CDs are only available from Indian scam sites, I can assure you that this album existed in 2012, and was probably a best seller.
In summary, the claims suggesting that Augie Rios’s “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?” was a recent composition for an Amazon ad campaign are false. The song has a documented history dating back to 1958, with Augie Rios being a genuine figure in its creation. The 2012 children’s album also has pre-existing digital traces, disproving the notion that it was fabricated to support a false narrative. Misinformation surrounding the song’s origins appears to be a result of inaccurate assertions rather than a manipulation by Amazon Web Services or any other entity using their control of internet archives to create a false past in order to dictate the future.
Lhana Lhak
