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The song's lyrics refer to a "picture print by Currier and Ives," whose lithographs were popular in the 19th century. Leroy Anderson's own recording of "Sleigh Ride" was made on September 11, 1950, [7] and was released on his album "Leroy Anderson Conducts His Own Compositions" [8] on the Decca label in 1951.
The name of the title track is a reference to a Nantucket sleighride, the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale. Owen Coffin, to whom the song is dedicated, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820.
Nantucket is a Southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1969. Originally known as a beach music band named Stax of Gold, and later Nantucket Sleighride (after the song and album by Mountain) which was eventually shortened to Nantucket, the six-member group—Tommy Redd, Larry Uzzell, Mike Uzzell, Eddie Blair, Kenny Soule, and Mark Downing—first became successful in their ...
The song, released in 1991, asks Santa to please bring a space ship while riding a "bison sleigh." If you think about it, honestly, bison are just as unlikely as flying reindeer. So it all makes ...
The tracks are all secular Christmas seasonal songs, in contrast to her second Christmas album released in 1967. It is Fitzgerald's only Verve complete album of Christmas tunes. Verve had issued a 7" 45rpm single in 1959, featuring "The Christmas Song" with "The Secret of Christmas" on the B-side; both were recorded with Russ Garcia and His ...
"Blue Tango" was the first instrumental recording ever to sell one million copies. His most famous pieces are probably "Sleigh Ride" and "The Syncopated Clock". In February 1951, WCBS-TV in New York City selected "The Syncopated Clock" as the theme song for The Late Show, the WCBS late-night movie, using Percy Faith's recording.
This pop-punk gem's upbeat tempo and catchy hook belie its bummer lyrics about struggling with ... 120. TLC, "Sleigh Ride" TLC made this ... DMX makes a classic kid's song into a full-blown hip ...
The album includes the song "Heartbreak Holiday", which marks Gibson's second duet with New Kids on the Block member Joey McIntyre after "Lost in Your Eyes, the Duet". [1] [2] "Sleigh Ride" was originally recorded by Gibson on the 1992 various artists album A Very Special Christmas 2. Her rendition of "White Christmas" is a duet with her father ...