Other songs of Winter

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Chronological list 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)

I’ve omitted from this list both popular and lesser known winter holiday songs, ones that lyrically focus upon Christmas, winter holidays, Santa Claus, flying reindeer, mistletoe and holly, stockings over the fireplace, etc. Such songs, if included on the site, will be found or linked to in one or more of my holiday season songs pages. See:

I’ve also attempted to omit songs that, without specifically mentioning Christmas, the holidays, or holiday-related themes, activities, or figures in the title or lyrics, are nevertheless among the most popular holiday season songs (e.g. “Winter Wonderland,” “Sleigh Ride,” “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”). Such songs will also be found or linked to, if included on the site, in one or more of the aforementioned holiday season song pages.

Several of the songs included in this list share a common theme: how love seems to magically transform winter into spring, or a winter month into a spring or summer month.

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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