" Marshmallow World" The world is your snowball, see how it growsĪnother song of snow and its effects, this one is full of food metaphors. Whatever it is, it's not eggnog and this ain't a Christmas song either.Ħ. "Say, what's in this drink?" (no, we're not making this up) The male part of the duet, identified in the original lyrics as "the wolf," gets these responses from his prey: Odd that it became so popular in 2014, since it was just a little too easy for South Park to use it to skewer Bill Cosby in a supposed duet with Taylor Swift. In 2014, Seth MacFarlane and Sara Bareilles recorded a version that reached #10 on the AC chart this same year Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé also duetted on the song, reaching #1 with their rendition. and Carmen McRae, Cerys Matthews and Tom Jones, Brian Setzer and Ann-Margret, and Zooey Deschanel and M. It won an Oscar for best song, and in 1958 was sung at the ceremony by Mae West and Rock Hudson.ĭinah Shore with Buddy Clark had a big hit with it in 1949, and over the years it's been recorded by Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, Sammy Davis Jr.
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" Baby It's Cold Outside" I've got to get home.Īnother declaration of weather in song came the year before, in Frank Loesser's 1944 duet, later used in the 1949 movie Neptune's Daughter with versions by Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams and another by Red Skelton and Betty Garrett. Songs about snowing could conceivably play all through winter until March, but when they're lumped with Christmas, they don't.ĥ. They eat the corn until the fire goes out, then they kiss and hug before they part.
They don't make Christmas cookies or string the popcorn for the tree. Since "we've no place to go," the singers stay in and pop some corn. We turn now to the purely meteorological, as when Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne composed in 1945 this forecast: "The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful." Still, closing with pumpkin pie suggests it's happening closer to November.Ĥ. Some have altered the lyrics so that the soiree at the home of Farmer Gray that's "the perfect ending of a perfect day" switches from a birthday party to a Christmas party (though really, isn't Christmas essentially a birthday party?). Recently, it appeared on Christmas albums by Renée Fleming, Pentatonix and Earth, Wind & Fire.Īll this despite, you guessed it, having nothing to do with Christmas other than proclaiming "lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you" and "gliding along with the song of a wintry fairy land." Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops recorded the first instrumental version, and after Mitchell Parish added the lyrics in 1950, the Andrews Sisters were the first of hundreds of artists to sing it. Riding on a sleigh was a big part of winter for a while, though certainly not in 1946 when Leroy Anderson wrote this tune during a July heat wave. " Sleigh Ride" Let's go, Let's look at the show Lady Gaga risked a chest cold when she sang it with Tony Bennett at the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center.ģ. Either way, Christmas never comes into the picture. Instead of any violent activity, the Parson Brown verse repeats, although in some versions, the couple end up making a second snowman - in the likeness of a circus clown. Subsequent verses talk of an indoor conspiracy meeting, which may or may not involve anything from Parson-revenge to jihad ("Later on, we'll conspire as we dream by the fire, to face unafraid, the plans that we made"). It gets odd when it turns to the making of a snowman by unmarried people into a likeness of a prying Parson Brown ("He'll say, 'Are you married?' We'll say, 'No, man'"). In fact, it starts by harkening back to our previous non-Christmas song: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?"Ī winter scene is described, as is the displacement of native birds for seasonal reasons ("Gone away is the blue bird"). Smith is a fun one to sing and hear, but it isn't tied to any particular day in the calendar.
The 1934 song by Felix Bernard and Richard B. " Winter Wonderland" When it snows, ain't it thrilling
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