"Winter Wonderland," Anne Murray
Christmas is over, but winter has only begun - yet you never hear winter songs on the radio between December 25 and March 20! - but here, I'm happy to feature a winter song after Christmas - at least for my final Christmas Music Video Of the Week for 2025. I'm returning to a favorite of mine - Anne Murray's 1981 recording of the 1934 winter romance song "Winter Wonderland."
"Winter Wonderland" was written by music composer by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Smith, who grew up in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was inspired to write the words based on the snowscape he saw in his hometown's park after a winter storm. The song was first recorded by bandleader Richard Himber and his orchestra, and it has been covered extensively ever since. Although Anne Murray's star was beginning to dim a bit in the early eighties - the same was true for a lot of seventies MOR singers at the time - she still managed to do relatively well with her 1981 Yuletide album Christmas Wishes, on which this cover of "Winter Wonderland" - this clip is, I believe, from a TV special - appears.
Enjoy, and happy holidays.
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