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"Sleigh Ride" is a light orchestra standard composed by Leroy Anderson. He formed the idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946, and finished it in February 1948. He formed the idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946, and finished it in February 1948.
The dances are scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, violins I and II, violoncellos, and double basses.The middle section and coda, titled Die Schlittenfahrt (The sleigh ride), of the third dance adds two posthorns and five sleigh bells tuned to C, E, F, G, and A (in ascending order).
"You Came, You Saw, You Conquered!" is a 1969 song by the Ronettes. It was their final charting U.S. hit, reaching #108 Billboard and #92 Cash Box. [1] In Canada, the song peaked at #73 for two weeks. [2]
Leroy Anderson (/ l ə ˈ r ɔɪ / lə-ROY) (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler.
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.
[7] Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe called it a bouncy, cooing number tailor-made to soundtrack sleigh rides, and named it the best track on the album. [13] Critics also approvingly compared it to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994), a track that RCA chief executive Peter Edge described as the song's inspiration. [14]
The song’s punchy drum/percussion beat pattern was also later sampled for the song “Sleigh Ride” off of O’Neal’s fourth, and specifically, first and only Christmas album “My Gift to You”, in addition to a bass line played similar to that of “Fake”.
Ric Flauding has produced compositions and arrangements for groups including the London Symphony and the London Boychoir,; [14] the Fort Worth Symphony,; [15] the Plano Symphony Orchestra: (December 18, 2016), in which his arrangement of the song "Sleigh Ride" was the featured Finale of the "Home for the Holidays" concerts; and the Juarez ...