The actress Gale Storm was the lucky beneficiary .. this B/D tune was a B-side to "Go Way From My Window" single in 1957 accd. to Google.
To listen, go to www.npr.org, then go to "Fresh Air" with the genius interviewer Terry Gross ... last Monday's show was singer Rebecca Kilgore and about 48 minutes into the show is the above tune. Very much worth the effort to listen on realaudio or windowsmedia. ...
My apologies on this board for the iteration of above, but especially for my recent "God, Jesus, Burt" thread ... My excuse is that at my old age I had never thought "who are the writers?" of these superb standard Christmas songs ... I only now looked them up and was surprised that they were the somewhat obscure (relative to their merit, that is... ) Broadway and movie songwriters of the Great American Songbook era ... (Jimmy Van Heusen, Jules Styne etc.) Jewish heritage so many (well I'm not sure about Fred Coots or Ralph Blaine
... Reading their stories, these writers made a small/OK/good living placing then popular tunes to make a living in the 30s-50s. Their better tunes would gain immortality by being covered by singers and jazzers who discovered them after the fact. But none of these writers would ever reach an audience like they did with their immortal holiday carols, for which they didn't receive the proper accolades in their lifetime. The common thread to a bunch of them seems to be the lyricist S. Cahn. Beneficiaries of these tunes I hope are the families of these writers, who nowadays get a nickel from BMI/ASCAP each time one of these is piped into my local shopping mall ... And my discovery that Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" makes me as nervous as listening his "Typewriter Song" ... as it must to any singer who has tried to sing the "Sleigh Ride" bridge
