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"Sleigh Ride" was produced by American musicians Brent Kutzle and Brandon Collins. [73] It is the first track from You Make It Feel Like Christmas that was not produced by busbee or Eric Valentine ; busbee had previously co-written all of the original songs on the parent album with Stefani and Tranter, but died in September 2019 after a battle ...
Mitchell Parish added words to "The Syncopated Clock", and later wrote lyrics for other Anderson tunes, including "Sleigh Ride", which was not written as a Christmas piece, but as a work that describes a winter event. Anderson started the work during a heat wave in August 1946.
The name of the title track is a reference to a Nantucket sleighride, the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale. Owen Coffin, to whom the song is dedicated, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820.
"Sleigh Ride", composed originally in 1948 as an instrumental by Leroy Anderson, was inspired by a heatwave in Connecticut. The song premiered with the Boston Pops Orchestra in May 1948 with no association with Christmas. The lyrics added in 1950 have "nothing to do with Santa, Jesus, presents or reindeer," but the jingling bells and "sleigh ...
Dance 3 Schlittenfahrt: [3] This dance may have been written independently of the others, [1] as it is very different in style. Schlittenfahrt means "Sleigh Ride"; the use of sleigh bells in the piece clearly emphasises this. Before the sleigh bells enter, there is a series of repeating phrases that pass between the trumpets, woodwind and violins.
"Sleigh Ride" was originally recorded by Gibson on the 1992 various artists album A Very Special Christmas 2. Her rendition of "White Christmas" is a duet with her father Joe. "Cheers!" is an original New Year's Eve song Gibson wrote in memory of her late mother and former manager Diane. [1] [3] [2] [4]
but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. With a little old driver, so lively and quick, ... Question: Those who believe Henry Livingston, Jr., wrote A Visit claim he wrote the poem in what ...
Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 3:44 "When My Heart Finds Christmas" (Harry Connick Jr.) – 4:32