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.
Suzy is a snowflake playfully personified. 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.
A cartoon short based on the song was made in 1953 by Centaur Productions, with stop-motion animation created by Wah Ming Chang.[1] It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago,[2] 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.
See also
- List of Christmas/holiday hit singles in the United States
References
- Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 305. ISBN 9781476672939.
- 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