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Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) [1] was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
In 1981, Ian Dury left Stiff for Polydor Records. [1] As a cash-in for the Christmas market, Stiff commissioned session musicians to record a version of the Hokey Cokey with a Dury-soundalike vocal from Martin Kershaw, whose credits included guitar on "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Dance Yourself Dizzy", [2] and playing banjo on 120 episodes of the Muppet Show. [3]
The snowman melts, my parents died, animals die, flowers die. Everything does. There's nothing particularly gloomy about it. It's a fact of life." He disputed the idea that the book is a Christmas book, noting that it was only the animated adaptation that introduces this element. [4]
In this illustration from 1867, a snowman is surrounded by children. Snowmen are a popular theme for Christmas and winter decorations and also in children's media. One of the oldest perdictions of a snowman in media is Ted Eshbaugh's Fantasies cartoon, "The Snowman" in 1932, which is also one of the first cartoons to be made in color.
The Fat Albert Christmas Special; The Flight Before Christmas (2008 film) A Flintstone Christmas; A Flintstone Family Christmas; A Flintstones Christmas Carol; Frosty Returns; Frosty the Snowman (TV special) Frosty's Winter Wonderland
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Frosty Returns is an American animated Christmas television special directed by Bill Melendez and Evert Brown, starring the voices of Jonathan Winters as the narrator and John Goodman as Frosty the Snowman.