Suzy Snowflake
"Suzy Snowflake" is a song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records, MJV-123.
It is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, although it makes no mention of the holiday. The child-oriented lyrics celebrate the fun of winter, with a snowstorm characterized as a playful girl named Suzy Snowflake.
A cartoon-short based upon the song was also made in 1953 by Centaur Productions where the stop-motion animation was created by Wah Ming Chang. It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago,[1] along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe" and an early UPA version of "Frosty the Snowman". WJAC-TV in Johnstown, PA also runs these three cartoon shorts during the Christmas season.
Clooney later re-recorded the song for her 1978 Mistletoe Records album Christmas with Rosemary Clooney. It has been covered by other artists, most notably Soul Coughing in 1997.
References
- ↑ Christmas Boomer Classics Return at Washington Times.com Retrieved April 1, 2013
External links
- http://cnynews.com/baby-boomer-alert-does-anybody-remember-suzy-snowflake-video/ Suzy Snowflake at Central New York News
- http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/2146-suzy-snowflake-1953 Suzy Snowflakes being played at Chicago Radio and Media