"It's a Cool Cool Christmas It's a Cool, Cool Christmas is a Christmas charity compilation album released in 2000 by Xfm on Jeepster Records in aid of The Big Issue. The album includes a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and original songs with a Christmas theme. Allmusic writer Tim DiGravina described the album as ""inspired good fun"", calling it ""without a doubt, one of the better alternative, holiday collections."" According to DiGravina, Grandaddy's ""Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland,"" with its lyric about building a snowman and pretending that it is Alan Parsons, ""might be the funniest song from 2000""."
"Parson Brown. They imagine the snowman asking if the couple is married, to which they tell him that they are not and tell the snowman that he can marry them. Smith, a native of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was reportedly inspired to write the song after seeing Honesdale's Central Park covered in snow. Smith had written the lyrics while being treated for tuberculosis in the West Mountain Sanitarium in Scranton. The song was originally recorded by Himber and his Hotel Ritz-Carlton Orchestra at RCA in 1934. At the end of a recording session with time to spare, RCA suggested arranging ""Winter Wonderland"""
"the boy seems to be the only human until they meet Father Christmas with his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern. In the film, the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty, and reissued in 1985 (on Stiff Records) and 1987. In 1985, an altered version was recorded for use in a TV advertising campaign for Toys ""R"" Us. As Auty's voice had then broken, Blake recommended the Welsh chorister Aled Jones, whose recording reached number five in the UK pop charts, and who became a popular celebrity on the strength"
"musical entitled """". It featured the voices of Jim Parsons as Buddy, Mark Hamill as Walter, Ed Asner reprising his film role as Santa, Garfunkel and Oates' Kate Micucci as Jovie, Rachael MacFarlane as Emily, Max Charles as Michael, Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Greenway, and Jay Leno as the leader of the fake Santas. The screenplay was written by Andrew Horvath, Michael Jelenic with Martin and Meehan. It also contained Guardino, Sklar, and Beguelin's songs from this musical. This special also featured a new song titled ""Freezy the Snowman"". It had a limited national tour in November 2017. The tour"
"with Montgomery Ward. The song tells the story of a reindeer whose shiny red nose guides Santa's sleigh through the fog on Christmas Eve. Gene Autry's 1949 recording remained at #1 for a week and brought the song widespread fame. Only ""White Christmas"" has sold more copies. Autry had another hit in 1950 with ""Frosty the Snowman"", written by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson as a direct attempt to create a success in the vein of ""Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"". The song tells the story of a magical snowman who has playful adventures with children. In 1963, ""Frosty"" hit its"
"-- ter’s snow, </score> See, amid the Winter's Snow ""See, amid the Winter's Snow"", also known as ""Hymn for Christmas Day"" and ""The Hymn for Christmas"", is an English Christmas carol. It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880). As ""Hymn for Christmas Day"", it featured in ""Christmas Carols New And Old"", which was published in 1871 by Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833–1917) and John Stainer (1840–1901). Caswall wrote ""See, amid the Winter's Snow"" shortly after leaving the Church of England and joining the Catholic Oxford Movement and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri."
"Forsman as Juletid (""Christmastime""), Carola Søgaard and Christer Sjögren recorded the song on the 1991 Christmas album ""Jul"". Mistletoe and Wine ""Mistletoe and Wine"" is a Christmas song made famous as a single by Cliff Richard in 1988. The song was written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called ""Scraps"", which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Little Match Girl"" set in Victorian London. ""Scraps"" was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London in 1976. The musical was renamed ""The Little Match Girl"" and adapted for television by HTV in 1987,"
"Winter Wonderland ""Winter Wonderland"" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard B. Smith. Due to its seasonal theme it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere, though the holiday itself is never mentioned in the lyrics. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists, including Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Amy Grant, Michael Buble, The Eurythmics, and Radiohead. The song's lyrics are about a couple enjoying a picturesque winter landscape. They build a snowman, who they agree to pretend is"
"on the album ""Christmas Impressions"" (1982). David Benoit followed him on the album ""Christmastime"" (1983). They were followed by Patti Austin and Debby Boone (both in 1989); Mel Tormé (1992), then Rosemary Clooney, R.E.M., and Stone Temple Pilots before the turn of the century. Christmas Time Is Here ""Christmas Time Is Here"" is a popular Christmas song written by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 TV special ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"", one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network TV in the United States. Because the song became a hit, two versions were included on the"
"the Snowman — the narrator, and an original orchestral score composed by Marks himself, ""Rudolph"" became one of the most popular, and longest-running, Christmas specials in television history: it remained with NBC until around 1972, and currently runs several times during the Christmas season on CBS. The special contained seven original songs. In 1965, a new song was filmed in ""Animagic"" to replace ""We're a Couple of Misfits"" titled ""Fame and Fortune."" The success of ""Rudolph"" led to numerous other Christmas specials. The first was ""The Cricket on the Hearth"", with a live-action prologue by Danny Thomas and the animation"
"See, amid the Winter's Snow ""See, amid the Winter's Snow"", also known as ""Hymn for Christmas Day"" and ""The Hymn for Christmas"", is an English Christmas carol. It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880). As ""Hymn for Christmas Day"", it featured in ""Christmas Carols New And Old"", which was published in 1871 by Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833–1917) and John Stainer (1840–1901). Caswall wrote ""See, amid the Winter's Snow"" shortly after leaving the Church of England and joining the Catholic Oxford Movement and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. The hymn was published"
"The Christmas Song ""The Christmas Song"" (commonly subtitled ""Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"" or, as it was originally subtitled, ""Merry Christmas to You"") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to ""stay cool by thinking cool"", the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. ""I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells') piano with four lines written in pencil"", Tormé recalled. ""They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob"
"The Secret of Christmas ""The Secret of Christmas"" is a popular Christmas song, written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen for Bing Crosby, and first performed by Crosby in the 1959 film ""Say One for Me"". He recorded the song with an arrangement by Frank DeVol for a single that year released by Columbia Records. Crosby recorded the song again in 1964, together with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, for the Reprise Records album ""12 Songs of Christmas"". The song has also been covered by numerous artists, including Ella Fitzgerald in 1959, Johnny Mathis (for his album ""Sounds of"
"Frosty the Snowman ""Frosty the Snowman"" (or ""Frosty the Snow Man"") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter ""Jack"" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the new song to Autry, who recorded ""Frosty"" in search of another seasonal hit. Like ""Rudolph"", ""Frosty"" was subsequently adapted to other media including a popular television special by Rankin/Bass Productions,"
"of medley on the 1975 album ""Merry Christmas from Sesame Street"". Johnny Mathis recorded the song for his 1986 album ""Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis""; this version gained popularity after its inclusion in the 1992 film """". Gradually, Mathis's recording began to receive wide radio airplay, and for the past several years this version has been a Top 10 Christmas hit. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled ""It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"". The song"
"The song was featured in the 1964 Rankin-Bass Christmas special, ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"", in which Burl Ives voiced the narrator, Sam the Snowman. Originally to be sung by Larry D. Mann as Yukon Cornelius, the song, as well as ""Silver and Gold,"" was given to Burl Ives due to his singing fame. This version was also included on the soundtrack album for the special and later released as a single. The song was re-recorded by Ives for his 1965 holiday album, ""Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"". This version of the song has a somewhat slower arrangement than the ""Rudolph"
"A Marshmallow World ""A Marshmallow World"" (sometimes called ""It's a Marshmallow World"") is a popular song that was written in 1949 by Carl Sigman (lyrics) and Peter DeRose (music). The song is about winter and is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, although the lyrics make no mention of the holiday. The song compares a snowfall to marshmallows covering the ground. It also describes the snowfall as whipped cream and the sun as a big red pumpkin head. The singer ""waits for it the whole year 'round."" The song was first a hit for Bing Crosby (backed by the Lee"
"Frank Lloyd Wright, and is situated in downtown Mason City overlooking central park. ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"" was later incorporated into the pre-Broadway version of the score of Willson's 1963 musical ""Here's Love"" and can be heard on that show's original cast recording, where it is sung in counterpoint to a new melody and lyric, ""Pine Cones and Holly Berries."" Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1961 album ""Christmas with The Chipmunks"" and 1981 album ""A Chipmunk Christmas"". The ""Sesame Street"" character Big Bird (performed by Caroll Spinney) sang the song as part"
"Christmas Time Is Here ""Christmas Time Is Here"" is a popular Christmas song written by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 TV special ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"", one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network TV in the United States. Because the song became a hit, two versions were included on the album ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"": an instrumental version by the Vince Guaraldi Trio and a vocal version by choristers from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California. The first person to record a cover version of the song was jazz guitarist Ron Escheté"
"his vocal group, The Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett , and Lloyd Stallworth) performed the song in a cameo appearance, in the American International Pictures comedy film ""Ski Party"". The song's television appearances include ""Tour of Duty"" episode ""The Road to Long Binh"", the ""Simpsons"" episode ""Bart's Inner Child"" (with Brown himself singing it), the ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"" episode ""Kong!"" (a parody of the 1976"" King Kong"" film) as performed by Alvin and the Chipmunks, the ""Full House"" episode ""The Return of Grandma"", the ""Malcolm in the Middle"" episode ""Morp"", the ""Lost"" episode ""The Greater Good"", and the"
"for Christmas. Many titles help define the mythical aspects of modern Christmas celebration: Santa Claus bringing presents, coming down the chimney, being pulled by reindeer, etc. New mythical characters are created, defined, and popularized by these songs; ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"", adapted from a major retailer's promotional poem, was introduced to radio audiences by Gene Autry in 1949. His follow-up a year later introduced ""Frosty the Snowman"", the central character of his song. Though overtly religious, and authored (at least partly) by a writer of many church hymns, no drumming child appears in any biblical account of the Christian nativity"
"Wizards in Winter ""Wizards in Winter"" is an instrumental track by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, released on the 2004 album ""The Lost Christmas Eve"". A clip of the band playing the first few seconds of the piece was used in a commercial for its most recent concert tour, and the song is often used to open their live shows. Its musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal, with influences from classical music. During the 2004 Christmas season, electrical engineer Carson Williams set up a Christmas light show in the front yard, driveway, windows, and roof of his house. It"
"Coverley"" is played and danced during the scene where Scrooge visits the office of Old Fezziwig with The Ghost of Christmas Past. The tragic folk song ""Barbara Allen"" is played as an instrumental when young Scrooge is talking with his sister Fan, and sung by a duet at Fred's Christmas party. Scrooge turns up just as they are about to sing the line ""Young man, I think you're dying."" Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern reprised their roles two decades later, lending their voices to Richard Williams's 1971 animated version of the tale. ""Scrooge"" can be seen playing on a television"
"Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a 1962 animated musical holiday television special produced by UPA. It is an adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"" by Charles Dickens, featuring UPA's character Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. The special first aired on December 18, 1962 on NBC. Jim Backus provides the voice of Magoo, with additional voices provided by Paul Frees, Morey Amsterdam, Joan Gardner, and Jack Cassidy. The special is directed by Abe Levitow and features songs composed by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Bob Merrill. It is the first animated holiday program ever produced specifically for television,"
"Carol"" in ""The Simpsons"" episode ""'Tis the Fifteenth Season"" . Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a 1962 animated musical holiday television special produced by UPA. It is an adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"" by Charles Dickens, featuring UPA's character Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. The special first aired on December 18, 1962 on NBC. Jim Backus provides the voice of Magoo, with additional voices provided by Paul Frees, Morey Amsterdam, Joan Gardner, and Jack Cassidy. The special is directed by Abe Levitow and features songs composed by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Bob Merrill. It is"
"Snoopy's Christmas ""Snoopy's Christmas"" is a song performed by The Royal Guardsmen in 1967. It continues to be played as a holiday favorite on most ""oldie"" radio stations; however, it is also often played on radio stations playing a Hit Music format as well as Adult Contemporary format stations. While these stations wouldn't normally play music from this era radio stations will make exceptions to mix certain Christmas songs with the usual playlist during the Holiday period. Due to a chart department policy instituted by ""Billboard"" magazine, the ""Snoopy's Christmas"" single never appeared in the Hot 100. It was, however,"
"as the voice of a more sardonic Frosty defending the value of snow against Mr. Twitchell (Brian Doyle-Murray), the maker of a snow-removal spray. Frosty the Snowman ""Frosty the Snowman"" (or ""Frosty the Snow Man"") is a popular Christmas song written by Walter ""Jack"" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 and later recorded by Jimmy Durante, releasing it as a single. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shipped the new song to Autry, who recorded"
"The Twelve Gifts of Christmas ""The Twelve Gifts of Christmas"" is a song parody written and performed by Allan Sherman based on the classic Christmas song ""The Twelve Days of Christmas"". The song reached #5 on the Billboard Christmas Chart in 1963. A noted jukebox record supplier stated that if the record was released earlier, it ""might have been a hot number."" The song subsequently appeared on Sherman's 1964 album, ""For Swingin' Livers Only!"" The song was arranged by Lou Busch. He lists off the gifts in successive verses, and after some of them he adds more details about the"
"have been staged. ABC currently holds the rights to the special and broadcasts it at least twice during the weeks leading up to Christmas. The Peanuts are celebrating the start of the winter season by ice skating on a frozen pond and singing ""Christmas Time Is Here."" Leaning against a nearby fence, Charlie Brown tells Linus that despite all the traditions of Christmas presents, Christmas cards and decorations, he still winds up depressed, but is not sure why. Linus dismisses Charlie Brown's attitude as typical, quoting Lucy: ""Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest."" Charlie"
"by Sam the Snowman 6. ""The Most Wonderful Day of the Year"" sung by the Misfit Toys 7. ""A Holly Jolly Christmas"" sung by Sam the Snowman 8. ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" sung by Sam the Snowman This version has the NBC ""living color"" peacock at the introduction. It includes the original end credits, where an elf drops presents that list all the technical credits. It also includes commercials that were exclusively for GE small appliances with some of the same animated elves from the main program introducing each of the products, and closing NBC network bumpers, including promos for"
"Nuttin' for Christmas ""Nuttin’ for Christmas"" (also known as ""Nothing for Christmas"") is a novelty Christmas song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett. It became a hit during the 1955 Christmas season when it appeared in ""Billboard""’s pop charts by five different artists. The highest-charting of the five recordings was released by Art Mooney and His Orchestra, with six-year-old Barry Gordon as lead vocalist; this version peaked at #6 and became a million-seller. Another notable version was performed by Stan Freberg (with Daws Butler appearing as a burglar helped by the kid at the end). Other charting versions"
"a duet with his own sped-up voice as the bird. It also reached the Top 40, peaking at No. 34. While driving in Sequoia National Park, Bagdasarian saw a chipmunk dash in front of him. That moment inspired him to create his chipmunk characters. The technique was imitated by Sheb Wooley's ""Purple People Eater"" and The Big Bopper's ""The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."" The Chipmunks first officially appeared on the scene in a novelty record released in late fall 1958 by Bagdasarian. The song, originally listed on the record label (Liberty F-55168) as ""The Chipmunk Song (Christmas"
"Christmas song ""Silver Bells"". Main performers Alternate performers David Rudman officially became Cookie Monster in ""Sesame Street's"" 2002 season (taped 2001), but the year before that, Rudman shared the part with Eric Jacobson, Frank Oz's primary successor. Once Jacobson was cast as Grover and Bert, Sesame Workshop chose Rudman as Cookie Monster to allow for more interaction between Cookie Monster and Bert/Grover. Frank Oz still performs Cookie Monster and his other ""Sesame Street"" characters a couple of times per year. Various toys and other icons of the Cookie Monster have been produced over the years. The most obvious is a"