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"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists. Its lyrics are about a couple's romance during ...
Its most misunderstood lyric, about a couple building a snowman and pretending he is “Parson Brown,” imagines a parson — a now little-used term for minister — who would marry them.
Allmusic writer Tim DiGravina described the album as "inspired good fun", calling it "without a doubt, one of the better alternative, holiday collections." [2]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". [2]
Richard Bernhard Smith (September 29, 1901 – September 29, 1935) was an American composer who wrote the lyrics to the popular Christmas song "Winter Wonderland", which was composed by Felix Bernard.
Usually "Parson Brown" is replaced by "Circus Clown", and then "we'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman 'til the other kiddies knock him down." This was added sometime after the original publication -- whether by the original lyricist or someone else, I'm not sure. My 1953 copy of the sheet music refers to that verse as "a new children's lyric".
In 1976, Day was the voice of Parson Brown in the Rankin-Bass production Frosty's Winter Wonderland and again worked with them in 1978, when he voiced Fred in The Stingiest Man in Town, which was their animated version of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Peter Currell Brown [23] The Snow Goose: Camel: The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk: Paul Gallico [24] The Songs of Distant Earth: Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke [25] Tales of Mystery and Imagination: The Alan Parsons Project: Various works of Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe [26] [27] A Tragedy in Steel Part II ...
Frosty's Winter Wonderland is a 1976 animated Christmas television special and a standalone sequel to the 1969 special Frosty the Snowman, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions [1] and animated by Topcraft. It is the second television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman.