Winter songs

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• Selected holiday season songs, index
  • includes links to these individual song pages:
    • White Christmas
    • White Christmas: selected vocal harmony group recordings, 1948-1965
    • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
    • The Christmas Song
    • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
    • I’ll Be Home for Christmas
    • Happy Holiday / Holiday Inn
    • My Favorite Things
  • and the following three pages of selected songs:
• Selected Christmas and holiday season songs
  • White Christmas
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • Sleigh Ride
  • The Christmas Song
  • Let It Snow!, Let It Snow!, Let It Snow!
  • Winter Wonderland
  • Silver Bells
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
  • Frosty the Snowman
• Some other popular holiday season songs
  • Jingle Bells
  • It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  • Carol of the Drum (Little Drummer Boy)
  • Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano)
  • Jingle Bell Rock
• Johnny Marks: Christmas songs
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 1949?
  • When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter, 1950
  • Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, 1958
  • Silver and Gold, 1964
  • A Holly, Jolly Christmas, 1964
  • Jingle, Jingle, Jingle, 1964
  • The Most Wonderful Day of the Year, 1964
  • We Are Santa’s Elves, 1964
• The Judy Garland Show, Episode 15: “The Christmas Show,” taped 6 December 1963
  • holiday songs include:
  • part 1
    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, holiday medley: Jingle Bells, Sleigh Ride, It Happened in Sun Valley, Winter Wonderland, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells (reprise)
  • part 2
    Here We Come A-Caroling, The Christmas Song, traditional Christmas carol medley: Caroling, Caroling, What Child Is This, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Good King Wenceslas, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night, Deck the Halls; Here We Come A-Caroling (reprise), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (reprise)
• Other songs of Winter to 1/13/2024 (blue links are Songbook feature pages or posts)
  • 1929 – Like a Breath of Springtime (m. Joe Burke, w. Al Dubin)
  • 1930 – It Seems to be Spring (m. Richard A. Whiting, w. George Marion, Jr.)
  • 1932 – It’s Winter Again (m. Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, w. Arthur Freed)
  • 1933 – Snow Flakes (Vincent Rose, Mack David)
  • 1936 – There’s Frost on the Moon (Spring in My Heart) (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young)
  • 1937 – I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (Irving Berlin)
  • 1939 – Love Turns Winter to Spring* (m. Matt Dennis, w. Frank Killduff)
  • 1939 – When Winter Comes (Irving Berlin)
  • 1941 – Winter Weather (Ted Shapiro)
  • 1944 – June in January (m. Ralph Rainger, w. Leo Robin)
  • 1944 – A Wonderful Winter (For You and Me) (Alvin Kaufman, Marty Symes)
  • 1947 – If Winter Comes (m. Imogen Carpenter, w. James “Kim” Gannon)
  • 1947 – Little Jack Frost Get Lost (Seger Ellis, Al Stillman)
  • 1947 – Spring in December (m. Vittorio Mascheroni, w. Harold Rome)**
  • 1948 – Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Frank Loesser)
  • 1950 – Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter (Jack Fulton, Al Goering, Caesar James)
  • 1951 – (It’s Gonna Be) A Long, Long Winter (m. Jule Styne, w. Buddy Kaye)
  • 1952 – Winter’s Here Again (Sunny Skylar)
  • 1953 – The First Snowfall (m. Sonny Burke, w. Paul Francis Webster)
  • 1954 – Snow (Irving Berlin)
  • 1955 – Winter of My Discontent (m. Alec Wilder, w. Ben Ross Berenberg)
  • 1956 – Winter in New England (Robert Arthur, Jack Wolf)
  • 1956 – Winter Moon (m. Hoagy Carmichael, w. Harold Adamson)
  • 1957 – Winter Warm (m. Burt Bacharach, w. Hal David)
  • 1958 – Blue Snowfall (Dave Coleman) — copyright, 9 June 1958
  • 1960 – Winter’s Got Spring Up Its Sleeve (Connie Pearce, Arnold Miller)
  • 1962 – Our Winter Love (m. Johnny Cowell, w. Bob Tubert)
  • 1964 – Long, Long Winter (Curtis Mayfield)
  • 1966 – A Hazy Shade of Winter (Paul Simon)
  • 1966 – It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart It’s Spring) (Barry White, Paul Politi)
  • 1967 – Song for a Winter’s Night (Gordon Lightfoot)
  • 1968 – Sometimes in Winter (Steve Katz)
  • 1973 – Winter Has Me in Its Grip (Don McLean)
  • 1974 – Winter in America (Gil Scott-Heron)
  • 1975 – In the Winter (Janis Ian)
  • 1977 – Winter Time (Steve Miller)
  • 1980 – January Thaw*** (Lui Collins)
  • 2000 – Jardin d’hiver (Benjamin Biolay, Keren Ann)
  • 2004 – Winters Love (Noah Lennox, Avey Tare) – Animal Collective
  • 2008 – Winter Song (Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson)

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* Love Turns Winter to Spring — m. Matt Dennis, w. Frank Killduff (Brigham Townsend) — copyright, 13 September 1939 — recordings include those by Martha Tilton with Bobby Sherwood and his Orchestra, featured in a 1941 Soundie of the same title; Stan Kenton and his Orchestra (radio broadcast transcription, 1941);  Jo Stafford (1944), The Four Freshmen (1954); June Christy with Orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo (1957), Alan Copeland (1957), Randy Van Horne Singers (1960), Syd Dale Orchestra (1982), Jonny Abeles (1998), Bobbe Norris (1999), Marty Phillips Quartet (2005)

** Spring in December (m. Vittorio Mascheroni, w. Harold Rome) — recordings include those by (1947) Buddy Clark; Vic Damone; Russ Case Orchestra, v. Beryl Davis; Guy Lombardo and his Royal Orchestra, v. Don Rodney; (1948) Gordon MacRae, Eddy Howard — alternate title: “Spring in December (Winter in May)”

*** January Thaw (Lui Collins) – recordings by Priscilla Herdman (1980), Lui Collins (1981), Sophia Bilides (2006) — lyric: LuiCollins.net